Posted on 10/03/2013 5:53:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Over the past few days, Ive explained that fiscal conservatives and libertarians had little choice but to use the continuing resolution as a vehicle to go after Obamacare.
I also pointed out that the shutdown fight in the mid-1990s resulted in a very important victory for advocates of smaller government.
And I wrote that it would have been better if the shutdown started even earlier to stop bureaucrats from their usual end-of-fiscal-year spending orgy.
So what should I write about today, as we enter another day of unplanned vacation for nonessential bureaucrats? Well, I heard President Obama warn yesterday that we need to take steps to protect the economy. Did this mean he was finally being reasonable and that he would agree to curtail the job-killing fiscal boondoggle otherwise known as Obamacare?
Dont be silly.
Instead, he wants us to believe that a partial government shutdown somehow is bad for the economy. Just as he tried to convince us that themodest spending restraint of sequestrationsomehow was going to cripple the federal government (I wish!).
Obamas over-the-top rhetoric is so laughable that the only appropriate response is mockery. So lets enjoy some jokes and other humor about the government shutdown.
Well start with a very funny bit of satire about civilization collapsing without an omnipresent federal government. Heres a teaser, but you should read the entire article.
Lets remember, after all, that the United States was a Hobbesian jungle of vicious anarchy back in the 1800s when the federal government consumed only 3 percent of economic output!
Heres some political satire I received in my inbox yesterday. It warns about the danger of unregulated and unlicensed childrens lemonade stands. Why? Because bureaucrats (like ones in California, Georgia, and Oregon) wont be prowling the streets to shut them down.
This bit of humor actually isnt accurate since the shutdown sidelines federal bureaucrats and the lemonade stands were shut down by local bureaucrats.
That being said, we can safely assume that there are paper pushers in Washington who spend their time doing things that are equally foolish and pointless, so Im sharing it with you under the medias fake but accurate standard.
The late-night talk shows also are having some fun with the shutdown. Lets start with some good one-liners from Jay Leno.
And heres one from David Letterman.
Lets close with two additional bits of humor. This tweet from Jonah Goldberg made me laugh out loud. Julia, you may remember, was the Obama campaigns make-believe woman who mooched off taxpayers from birth to death.
But now shes trying to survive in the post-shutdown apocalypse.
Speaking of Julia, this Michael Ramirez cartoon hits the nail on the head.
Our last bit of mockery says we should celebrate the shutdown because government causes so much damage when its open.
The underlying message of this image obviously is true, but Im guessing this is a picture of a house in Detroit, so it might be more accurate to pin the blame on the city government rather than the federal government.
Then again, federal subsidies doubtlessly enabled and facilitated Detroits destructive policies, so maybe its okay to share this bit of humor without having to rely on the fake but accurate rule.
Thats actually the hard part of my job. Its sometimes difficult to figure out which form of intervention, at which level of government, should be blamed when something bad happens.
But this isnt supposed to be a serious post, so Ill leave that topic for another day.
If todays post didnt give you enough government shutdown humor, you can click here, here, and here for additional examples.
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Much truth in that .... lol
it is as simple as that
Thats funny.
Its now being reported that far from having no end game strategy, Republicans are employing the Vladamir Putin strategy, used effectively by pREsidunce obomber in Syria.
The longer the Republicans hold their ground, the more unhinged and absolutely looney the Democrats will become. If the Government isn’t running, the Democrats have no power. And you know what? Maybe it’s just me, but as long as this goes on, I feel a sense of liberty. What a great feeling!
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