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Tea Party zealots hold the public debate hostage
Chicago Tribune ^ | October 15, 2013 | Robert L. Borosage Reuters

Posted on 10/15/2013 2:27:44 PM PDT by mdittmar

This year's contrived budget crisis is headed to its climax, as the date for defaulting on the nation's debt approaches.

Washington's budget debates are dizzying and incomprehensible. But at stake is what kind of country we will have. House Republican Tea Party zealots, backed by well-funded right-wing lobbies, continue to manufacture budget crises. They want to alarm Americans into accepting cuts in basic security — in food stamps, and home heating, in Social Security or Medicare benefits — that would otherwise be utterly unacceptable.

Lost in the uproar is any reasoned discussion of the real strategies we need to make this economy work for working people. It is vital that the president and the Democrats in Congress end this macabre dance and make it clear to people just what the stakes actually are. The measure of any compromise deal is whether it will crush the hostage-takers.

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To: mdittmar
This guy knows less than nothing. I wonder if his parents had any children that lived?

I would think that anyone who has an IQ over 15 would be able to see that the POTUS refusing 5 or 6 deals to compromise on the shutdown, plus slimy Harry Reid saying “Not gonna happen” would allow even the most drooling of imbeciles to recognize that it is the Democrat's fault for the shutdown.

Besides, none of this would be happening if the Leftists had listened to the adults when we said this is a bad idea back before it became a miscarriage of law.

21 posted on 10/15/2013 3:19:32 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: mdittmar
Washington's budget debates are dizzying and incomprehensible.

If you're ignorant or stupid. OK, it could be both.

22 posted on 10/15/2013 3:21:08 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Zakeet
The guy holding the sign must stand for hours puzzling over a can of Shinola and a hole in the ground trying to determine what he's looking at.

I wonder if he bought himself something nice with the $15 that the Dems paid him to hold that sign.

23 posted on 10/15/2013 3:22:37 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: mdittmar

Regular people wanting cost efficient and effective government are extremists now.


24 posted on 10/15/2013 3:24:21 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Zakeet

Good find. Now, these “men” look like the real thing - teabaggers in the flesh.


25 posted on 10/15/2013 3:31:41 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: Zakeet

Hey look at the libtard holding the sign!


26 posted on 10/15/2013 3:43:30 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: A dark spot in this country's history.)
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To: mdittmar

I AM SPARTACUS.


27 posted on 10/15/2013 4:50:56 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Burn my flag? I'll piss on your ashes.)
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To: mdittmar

The Jew-hating commie scum at Reuters are butting their Nazi heads into our affairs. I suggest they leave now before we do a Yorktown on their bed-wetting leftist *sses.


28 posted on 10/15/2013 5:15:14 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: tet68
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I am Spartacus ...


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29 posted on 10/15/2013 7:40:44 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (Swine Piss be upon the Sodmite Obama, and his Child-Rapist False Prophet Mohammed)
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