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Related: About this forumGOP destruction is worse than America realizes
Republican tricks are putting our economy and national morale in danger -- but the country is blissfully unaware
BY BRIAN BEUTLER
Please forgive me for what Im about to do.
A few weeks ago a good friend of mine left Washington, D.C., where hed been working as a lawyer for a few years, and returned to California, where he now practices. Hes surrounded by highly educated people. And yet he wrote me this week to boast, You know whats nice? Nobody is discussing the looming government shutdown. Its just not on anybodys radar.
If he werent a news junky, it probably wouldnt be on his either.
I normally cant stand it when writers use their conversations with friends, waiters, clipboard people or whomever else to draw sweeping insights about big things like politics, America and the world. So apologies for going a little Tom Friedman on you. At least I didnt invoke any of my cab drivers, none of whom ever seem to mention the debt limit.
Anyhow I bring this up because I do think its illustrative. And I think it speaks to a hidden danger for Republicans, who already know these antics are more politically damaging to them than they are to Democrats. A lot of people around the country, not just in coastal California, have no idea that the GOP is about to harm the economy all over again, like it did in 2011, against its leaders better judgment. But theyre about to find out.
full article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/20/americans_wake_up_the_gop_is_back_to_destroying_the_economy/
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GOP destruction is worse than America realizes (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2013
OP
Do you really think this shut-down-the-government bill will get past the senate? I don't.
Cal33
Sep 2013
#4
I feel this way about DU; many here quick to blame Obama for what Republicans are doing!!
Liberal_Stalwart71
Sep 2013
#5
phantom power
(25,966 posts)1. well you know it's all very boring, and both sides do it, yada yada...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)2. .
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)3. Everyone is asleep or at the ball game
Cal33
(7,018 posts)4. Do you really think this shut-down-the-government bill will get past the senate? I don't.
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)6. It's not a bill to shut down the gov.
It's a budget bill to fund the gov.
If a budget bill isn't passed the gov runs out of money and shuts down because they can't pay anyone.
The Repubs threaten not to approve the budget bill unless Obamacare is de-funded.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)5. I feel this way about DU; many here quick to blame Obama for what Republicans are doing!!