Check in if you're as sick of this intentional governance-by-crisis as I am.

[NuclearDem]

The debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, government shutdown...

Yeah, fuck it all. I'm tired of this crap.

[Ed Suspicious]

1. So fucking tired. We always lose in these situations as well. Always a demand to compromise away

good government services. Never a drive to compromise away MIC spending or NSA funding or Oil and factory farm subsidies.

[NuclearDem]

16. No matter who comes to the table to play, the house always wins.

[leftstreet]

2. It's almost boring at this point

I find myself wishing Miley Cyrus would do something shocking, or maybe those people with the 50 kids would have quintuplets, and then, like, Edward Snowden would claim paternity

I don't know anyone in the 'real world' who's even talking about it

[bhikkhu]

3. Worst. Congress. Ever.

Up until recently they were only giving the last congress a run for its money - but now they are way out ahead.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Conservative think tank: GOP’s government-by-crisis strategy has cost the country 900,000 jobs:

The Republican strategy of governing by crisis has already worked to boost unemployment and slow economic growth, a new report from a conservative think tank concludes.

The report, released as the government shutdown approaches its third week and the country teeters on the edge of a debt default, finds that heightened economic uncertainty has cost 900,000 jobs—increasing the unemployment rate by 0.6%—and has significantly lowered GDP growth since the start of 2010.

“Based on this report’s findings, we can assert confidently that the crisis-driven fiscal policies of the last several years have damaged our still-struggling economy,” Joel Prakken of Macroeconomic Advisers, who prepared the report for the Peterson Foundation, said in a statement.

Economic uncertainty, Prakken told MSNBC in a phone interview, “is one of the reasons that the recovery from the Great Recession has been on the disappointing side.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/government-crisis-has-cost-jobs

[NuclearDem]

14. Exactly, it's so insane that even conservatives know it's a disaster.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. The problem is we have people who are spun out of control about the "culture in crisis"

they can't fucking see straight, because we fornicators and heathens and gay marriage-ers and cohabitationalists and birth control users and stubbornly believe in Evolution people and "I'm sorry but I'm NOT mad about breasts on the teevee" people are now a clear majority.

And they thought they controlled the GOP, but what they didn't know what that they're only marginally useful idiots as long as they elect people who will support getting rid of the capital gains tax. The second they start actually threatening the real Republicans' bottom line, they're out of luck.

I'd suggest they grow up, and stop trying to tell the rest of us how to live our god-damn lives.

[NuclearDem]

13. That's pretty much the sum total of the Tea Party.

Useful idiots who will vote for anyone who says the crazy shit they want to hear. More interested in the culture war than the class war.

[Brigid]

19. Slight disagreement here:

They are more interested in the culture war than in good governance.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Fortunately, there IS a solution.

[Cali_Democrat]

9. Last time Pelosi was Speaker of the House:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yup

[steve2470]

8. sick of it nt

[Zorra]

10. Republicans have never been anything but a waste of time, money, and energy.

Let's make sure the fuckheads never have any power over us again beginning in Jan 2015.

[Vogon_Glory]

11. Actually More Like PO'd About This

I am rather angry at the Republican Party's antics. I personally think that monkeying around with the solvency and the faith & good credit of the US federal government ought to be grounds for firing, and that any citizen who continues to vote for these congressional reps and senators who created this crisis has failed in his or her duty to the Constitution of the United States of America.

I'm not really all that liberal. In fact, I'm still bemused that I haven't been tombstoned here at DU. But one thing I do know, I strongly believe that DU and the Democratic Party better represent the economic interests of the average American citizen-voters far better than the right-wing Tea Party activists and the unthinking (so-called) "pro-business" apparatchikii of today's Republican Party. The Far Right and their enablers have not only failed the interests of the employees (sadly, practically a given these days) but the economic interests of most small and medium-sized business owners.

[Rex]

12. I've been mad since they let Wall Street dictate everything.

And that is a lot longer than just these past few months.

[Junkdrawer]

15. How the hell else can you put lipstick on a Medicare/Social Security cut...

Not as easy as it looks.

[NuclearDem]

17. The party wins with optics, we lose with the policy.

[Brigid]

18. Sick unto death of it.

[arely staircase]

20. no shit

The prez may have broken the fever. We shall see.