Posted on 10/15/2013 8:04:05 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
WASHINGTON DC (KDKA) — Frustration seems to be more common in Washington than the ability to reach a bipartisan deal across party lines.
Pennsylvania’s senior senator, a Democrat, knows who he blames.
“The Tea Party caused this shutdown, and if we allow it to continue, we’re going to have a Tea Party default and that’s not good for anyone,” says Sen. Bob Casey.
Sen. Casey says ultraconservatives in the House are so fixated on repealing or changing Obamacare that they are willing to risk the nation’s economic health.
“If they keep throwing out the ideas they’ve been talking about that will prevent the kind of consensus that I believe is already there throughout the country and here, Democrats, Republicans and Independents coming together, but the Tea Party insisting on, kind of, ideological demands,” Sen. Casey said.
Pennsylvania’s junior senator, Pat Toomey, says he disagrees with the tactics of his House colleagues.
“I never subscribed to the theory that we ought to make funding of the government contingent on defunding Obamacare or repealing Obamacare,” he said. “As much as I strongly oppose Obamacare, it never occurred to me that the President would sign a bill that would repeal what he thinks is his signature accomplishment. So, that was never a good strategy in my view.”
But Sen. Toomey says that President Obama and the Democrats bare a lot of responsibility, too.
“I think it was a big mistake for the President to refuse to negotiate, to insist in fact and to declare that he would not negotiate,” Sen. Toomey said.
With the clock ticking and no final resolution in sight, the frustration level is clearing rising, not just in Washington DC but with people all across the nation including here in Pittsburgh.
bumps for later
What really maddens me, what really drives me nuts, is that simple fairness should require the media to point out that the democrats are so fixated on implementing and defending Obamacare that they are willing to:
EITHER party could have ended the shutdown at any time, simply by giving in to the other side's demands. But somehow, the media decided that the democrat demands were "reasonable", and the republicans "unreasonable", even though a majority of people liked the republican idea.
Yeah, the Tea Party. We’ve replaced ‘The Religious Right’ as the boogie-man of the left. They look under their beds to make sure we’re not hiding there, ready to spring and whisper Horatio Alger stories in their ears.
or the DREADNOUGHT TEA PARTY ! lol
Back up from the details a bit. This is not about Obamacare. This is not about the debt ceiling. This is not about the budget. During the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mayor Daley said, “The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let’s get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
Never let a crisis go to waste. It’s the Chicago way.
TEA PARTY has only been around about four years, and yet the DemonCrats and GOP elites are scared of it and hate it. HA ha !
it's hard to catch all the mistakes when you're only working 29 hours and pursuing your dreams..../s
Why don’t the Tea Partiers surrender like good little Repubs?
Pray America is Waking Up
Both these assclowns are mouth breathers. Nothing but a waiste of oxygen. Time to get some real conservatives. Like, Cruz and Lee.
What’s frustrating about the Constitutional separation of powers?
Voters gave Republicans the power over taxing and spending.
You people in PA should wipe that toomey off your shoes and get rid of that rat snake too!
I am frustrated by Bob Casey pissing all over his dad’s legacy by supporting a law that provides universal government funding of abortion while continuing to lie by claiming that he is pro-life. There is a special place in hell reserved for politicians like that.
bttt
Well......I guess I’m taking to myself......
bttt
ping
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