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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet me get this straight
So, you shut down the government and you then protest against your own action for shutting down the
government.
How crazier can they become?
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Who are you gonna believe? Them or your own lying eyes?
Lifelong Dem
(344 posts)Government has a bad name because Republicans give it a bad name. I don't know why we let any of them in the WH.
Cha
(297,503 posts)Lap up like they do all their shit.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)allowing inferiority complex to drive your thinking, and the leaders down South understands this better
than anyone else and uses it to its fullest.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Hell, I've run into people who say Obama pulled out of Iraq to START a war in Afghanistan and he's invaded Pakistan too.
He's also why Miss America is an Arab.
Oh,...and of course...
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)and Sean Hannity kept referring to it as the "Obama/Reid shutdown".
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)grancart does it again.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)He loses hit train of thought in day three and posts, "I'm through with talking with idiots!"
...to which I reply, "Oh yeah, I forgot yer kids are back in school."
Just part of my charm.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)Thanks for the laugh, you sure will not want to be in the same room as he is after that, I can see
pots and plates flying across the room fer sure.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They actually expected me to pay for it.
My only question was if the window was open when they did it.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)urgh typical republican.
You pay for their screwed up action.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)who follow Carnival Cruz and Sarah plain and stupid don't see the hypocrisy because Rush-bo and the circle-jerk 5 at fox don't tell them it is hypocritical.
flying-skeleton
(698 posts)Just ask Nixon.
munster69
(107 posts)in this country.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)The right wing noise machine says that, "Obama shut down the government!"
jlayson
(95 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)When people vote in Repubs-who hate government-it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)It all started when they shutdown the government because they cannot come to an agreement on how to spend the imaginary money we don't have.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)The Senate Democrats and Obama didn't kowtow to their demands, so it's their fault of course.
Valhallakey
(70 posts)They should demand extensive climate change legislation or gun control or.... be tied to reopening the government/raising the debt ceiling. It would certainly help point out the absurdity of the whole situation. They should also remind people that the Republicans are not exactly the party to being fiscal responsibility to the Government. Last time they had control they took a great situation where we were actually paying off the debt to driving us off a fiscal cliff.
One of my favorite activities... talking to a Republican about how Obama screwed us by piling o the debt by bailing out the stupid banks. Go on and on with them on this for 5min or so... then go ... oh wait that was a Republican president that did that... . Not that it ever does any good, but it is lots of fun.
cer7711
(502 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 15, 2013, 01:55 AM - Edit history (6)
. . . such "greatest hits" as:
-- "Get a brain, morans!"
-- "Keep your Government Hands Off My Medicare!"
-- "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
(An oldie but goodie. Classic summation of the paradoxical, fascist mind-set. See next item below.)
-- "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
(Orwell said it, but knowledge-hating tea-baggers and their ilk believe this slogan to be the height of wisdom.)
-- "America--love it or leave it!"
(When Republicans are in charge, that is. Then dissent = treason. When Democrats or independents are in charge, dissent = patriotic duty.)
-- "Republicans are for state's-rights driven smaller government!"
You know, the kind that criminalizes sodomy. (Anal or oral sex with either gender. A wifely-delivered, err . . . "French pleasuring"--or husbandly returning of same--constituted felonious behavior not so very long ago. And will soon again, perhaps--in the state of Virginia--which is for lovers . . . ) And sues local municipalities to overturn prudent gun control laws. And suggests the forced vaginal wanding of women contemplating family planning measures. And engages in warrant-less wiretapping and e-mail reading. And the launching of extended wars without Congressional approval. And the subsidizing with federal tax-payer monies of (certain privileged) religious schools and institutions. You know, "smaller government" like that . . .
It is "of a piece" with their past actions and pronouncements.