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The March to Anarchy
NY Times ^ | Sept 18, 2013 | NYT Editorial Board

Posted on 09/18/2013 8:13:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Until now, the only House Republicans pushing for a government shutdown and debt crisis were a few dozen on the radical right, the ones Senator, Harry Reid, the majority leader, referred to as “the anarchists.” On Wednesday, however, the full Republican caucus, leadership and all, joined the anarchy movement, announcing plans to demand the defunding of health care reform as the price for keeping the government open past Sept. 30.

The decision means that a government shutdown next month is now much more likely. In the past, shutdown threats were averted because Republican leaders were willing to negotiate on spending issues, though the spending cuts that resulted were often harmful to important programs. But the health law is not negotiable for President Obama and the Democrats. By choosing this as their live-or-die issue, Republicans are driving straight toward the brink and removing the brake pedal.

What is worse, the House leadership also announced plans to make a series of demands of the White House in exchange for raising the debt ceiling in mid-October, threatening a government default if they don’t get their way.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defund; obama; obamacare; shutdown
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To: Standing Wolf

Seems to me the government shuts down now at least two days a week, except for holiday weeks when it is three out of seven days when it is shut down. Whats a few more days.

...And what’s with this obamaism of defaulting on our obligations? At best that is a bold face deception, at worse an outright lie. So nothing new there. I’m afraid Mr Obama is the finest example of the worst of the black race. And everything said about him before the first election has been proven beyond any doubt IMHO


21 posted on 09/18/2013 8:58:47 PM PDT by wita
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To: Jim Robinson

I’m an anarchist (specifically, an anarcho-capitalist.) I can assure you (and everyone else) that no member of the House or the Senate is even close to being an anarchist. Perhaps we anarchists should sue Senator Reid and the NYT for defamation by falsely associating us with any members of Congress?


22 posted on 09/18/2013 9:01:42 PM PDT by sourcery (Valid rights must be perfectly reciprocal.)
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To: Olog-hai
Anarchism is a left-wing ideology.

It can be either left or right. Left-anarchism rejects the right to property (many variations, but all oppose private ownership of the 'means of production.') Right anarchism accepts the right to own any and all physical objects. Right anarchism goes by various names, such as anarcho-capitalism, market anarchism, propertarian anarchism, agorism, voluntaryism, etc.

23 posted on 09/18/2013 9:04:38 PM PDT by sourcery (Valid rights must be perfectly reciprocal.)
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To: Maceman
I wish the left would make up their minds. Are conservatives fascists who want to control everybody's behavior, or anarchists who believe in no government? Only a leftist could believe both things at once, because they have mastered the art of Doublethink.

+1000! Perfect!

24 posted on 09/18/2013 9:07:52 PM PDT by sourcery (Valid rights must be perfectly reciprocal.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Back in the ‘60s when I was in high school the New York Times was considered a credible, even top-notch, newspaper. The thing has been run by foot-stomping children for the last few decades, and now is viewed by most normal humans as a liberal laughingstock. I sometimes wonder what Bill Safire would think of his old employer if he was still around.


25 posted on 09/18/2013 9:13:36 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Jane Long

Well, we know he reads the polls.


26 posted on 09/18/2013 9:14:19 PM PDT by FatherofFive (MIslam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Jim Robinson

An-archy, meaning without government. I’d say we have about $3.5 trillion a year to go before that happens.


27 posted on 09/18/2013 9:15:34 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: matt04
want’s

Death to all misplaced apostrophes!!

28 posted on 09/18/2013 9:15:37 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: FatherofFive
He didn't; the tiny pinto and cajones he brought with him to congress were put into a vice by the eeevil TEA PARTY people and slowly squeezed until he cried for mercy.
I just pray the real conservatives in congress keep turning the handle of the vice until the people are served,not the political corruptocrats.
29 posted on 09/18/2013 9:43:40 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: tumblindice

It’s in the NY Times, of course it’s straight from the White Hut.


30 posted on 09/18/2013 9:49:33 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: FatherofFive

I think that should have been VISE, not vice.
Now you know where my mind usually is.
Should have checked the dictionary.


31 posted on 09/18/2013 9:55:02 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Has the Kenyan warlord ever compromised with his opposition on a single bill?

This is our country too,yet they feel no duty to govern with us.


32 posted on 09/18/2013 9:55:27 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Lancey Howard
I sometimes wonder what Bill Safire would think of his old employer if he was still around
*****
I would guess he’d say they’re unprofessional,pusillanimous pussyfooters.
33 posted on 09/18/2013 9:58:26 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Finalapproach29er

He might also say they are congenital liars.


34 posted on 09/18/2013 10:17:13 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Finalapproach29er

The African communist Ubama is the President of the Black Democrats of America.
Period.

He is most definitely not my president.


35 posted on 09/18/2013 10:18:43 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: FatherofFive

“I don’t know how BoneHead grew a set overnight, but I’m glad he did”

I’m sure the “dead Tea Party” threatened to run someone against him. Regardless, boner needs to go.


36 posted on 09/18/2013 10:26:30 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Windflier

I admire your passion for the correct use of apostrophe’s.


37 posted on 09/18/2013 10:58:51 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Jim Robinson
Big government, another "phoney scandal."
38 posted on 09/18/2013 11:03:22 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the head of the welfare state wanted to start his revolution, wouldn’t this be the way he would do it and blame the republicans?


39 posted on 09/18/2013 11:20:46 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Jim Robinson
Do you want a definition of anarchy?

How about a Senate that refuses to do its basic Constitutional duty to pass a budget, forcing a series of continuing funding resolutions in its place to keep the government going, because it doesn't want to go on the record for or against anything, and would prefer to have the weapon of continuing resolution fights in order to beat the Republicans in the media than do what's right for the People?

-PJ

40 posted on 09/18/2013 11:22:42 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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