Wash Post Editorial Board - Republicans Accomplished Nothing with Shutdown So Far

[FourScore]

Mon Oct 07, 2013 at 07:25 PM PDT
Wash Post Editorial Board - Republicans Accomplished Nothing with Shutdown So Far
by night cat

Normally, I am not a big fan of The Washington Post Editorial Board. They tend to be too centrist for me and tend to encourage the parties to work together even when the Republicans are unreasonable. But I was pleased to see that in their latest editorial they have noted that the Republicans are accomplishing nothing with the government shutdown. Here is an excerpt:

WHAT HAVE House Republicans managed to accomplish in a week of government shutdown?

Damage the livelihood of millions of Americans? Check. . . . Waste billions of taxpayer dollars? Check. . . .Interfere with key government operations? Check. . . .
Rattle the markets, slow an economy in recovery, interrupt potentially lifesaving research at the National Institutes of Health? Check, check and check.

Derail the hated Obamacare? Ch?.?.?. — oh, no, wait a minute . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/....

And while the Editorial Board does seem to think that the Democrats will ultimately need to give the Republicans a lifeline (a little something so that they will end the shutdown), much to my surprise, the editorial board has indicated that now is not the time for the Democrats to compromise. At the conclusion of the editorial they state:

But throwing a lifeline is pointless until the victim realizes he may be drowning. It’s not clear the Republicans have reached that point. The danger is they will take the country down with them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/....

I am glad that after years of hearing from the mainstream media like The Washington Post that both sides are to blame, that finally they appear to be waking up to the fact that the Republicans are the ones to blame.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/07/1245093/-Wash-Post-Editorial-Board-Republicans-Accomplished-Nothing-with-Shutdown-So-Far

[polynomial]

1. Just think

after all these years, no more like decades Congress and the Senate have always spent more than the revenue intake.

That basic over spending approved already, the very reason for a continued lift of the debit.

Obviously since the money is already spent there is no alternative but to raise the limit.

Such a foolish goal to play media games with the American citizen that this is just the obnoxious media and selected political players especially hate radio and cable, never, never telling the real truth that the money is already spent and it is the combined effort of the Congress, the Senate, and the President that sign off on the spending bills already done. It is a shared process especially by the main stream political drama media that plays the public about this stress/ hate, propaganda, theater 24/7.

I was listening to a story in that the Republicans will pay the government union employees during this shut down. I wonder if the other shut down did the same when Newt Gingrich was in as House Speaker.

[gopiscrap]

2. WaPo is right on this one!

[Cha]

3. That is brilliant, FourScore.. you never know where something good is going to Pop Up!

WHAT HAVE House Republicans managed to accomplish in a week of government shutdown?

Damage the livelihood of millions of Americans? Check. . . . Waste billions of taxpayer dollars? Check. . . .Interfere with key government operations? Check. . . .
Rattle the markets, slow an economy in recovery, interrupt potentially lifesaving research at the National Institutes of Health? Check, check and check.

Derail the hated Obamacare? Ch?.?.?. — oh, no, wait a minute . . .

[freshwest]

4. Yup. And the full WaPo link:

WHAT HAVE House Republicans managed to accomplish in a week of government shutdown?

Damage the livelihood of millions of Americans? Check. . . .

Waste billions of taxpayer dollars? Check. . . .

Interfere with key government operations? Check. . . .

Rattle the markets, slow an economy in recovery, interrupt potentially lifesaving research at the National Institutes of Health?

Check, check and check.

Derail the hated Obamacare?

Ch?.?.?. — oh, no, wait a minute . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-house-gop-has-nothing-to-show-for-its-government-shutdown/2013/10/07/69650016-2f66-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html?hpid=z6

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/07/1245093/-Wash-Post-Editorial-Board-Republicans-Accomplished-Nothing-with-Shutdown-So-Far

[Cha]

6. Mahalo, fresh!

[BeyondGeography]

5. " an unrealistic strategy aimed at an unattainable goal"

Good writing in this Dan Balz piece as well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/shutdown-shines-spotlight-on-rift-in-republican-party/2013/10/07/2d4c90e6-2f9b-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html

One week into the first federal government shutdown since 1996, the Republican Party remains hostage to an unrealistic strategy aimed at an unattainable goal — defunding the nation’s health-care law — that had no obvious path to success.

The shutdown is disruptive and uneven, causing some pain and wider unease if only because of its unpredictability. It also is less encompassing today than it was when it began. House GOP leaders have simultaneously attempted to maintain unity while trying to escape possible political blame for the consequences of what their strategy could lead to...

[Cha]

7. Mahalo BG~

[ffr]

8. Good to see editorials make light of it.

Sometimes, that's what some people need to read through the material and catch on.

[world wide wally]

9. How about this for a little something?....

We won't execute you for treason if you back off your war on the U.S.