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riqster

(13,986 posts) Wed Oct 16, 2013, 01:32 PM Oct 2013

The Seinfeld Shutdown

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/the-seinfeld-shutdown/

The Teapublican Shutdown was about nothing, it turns out. First it was about Obamacare, then it was about the deficit, then it was about the debt, and so on and on and on. In the end, nothing seemed to be behind the shutdown, as the stated reasons kept changing. So, it was about nothing.

And THAT, friends, is also what it accomplished. Nothing.

Remember this when next you cast a ballot

Nothing else at the link.

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The Seinfeld Shutdown (Original Post) riqster Oct 2013 OP

It wasn't a complete loss for them Turbineguy Oct 2013 #1

In every way possible that cost should be hung around the GOP's neck........... wandy Oct 2013 #2

Turbineguy

(37,337 posts)

1. It wasn't a complete loss for them

Reply to riqster (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 01:44 PM

Oct 2013

it cost the economy about 50 billion. Or what Osama bin Laden might call, "a good start."

wandy

(3,539 posts)

2. In every way possible that cost should be hung around the GOP's neck...........

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 02:16 PM

Oct 2013

Any damage done by this folly should not be allowed to slip down the memory hole.
Every Dem running for office in 2914 should point out in no uncertain terms what this attempt by a minority to take control has cost.

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