From TPM:
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said he thinks the Republicans are hinting at shutdown with their promises to defund everything.
"They want to shrink it to where it doesn't work, and then when it doesn't work, they go, 'Look! It doesn't work, get rid of it.' And that's been their strategy all along," Trumka told TPM Thursday after speaking to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "They don't talk about how to make things effective; they talk about how to get rid of them."
or, as one of the commenters on TPM stated very clearly:
Well, there we have it. The Republican party has finally started to admit that their ONLY GOAL is to utterly and completely destroy the government of the United States. When can we expect to see them classified as a terrorist organization?
These people are disgraceful. They have no shame. They function minus any morals. Their self-centeredness is all-consuming. Their religion is money and their God is a God who thinks anyone who can't cut it on their own, minus social security, medicare, medicaid, ANY government program or help of any sort can go fuck themselves and die.
Do they say these words exactly? Yes. Word for word, it is what their actions say. People like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mike Pence and others hate you. They really, really hate you.
They hate you because you can see right through them. They hate you because you won't just sit and take what they dish out. They hate you because you are not EXACTLY like them and that is intolerable to a conservative. They are not giving. Not open to negotiations. Not willing to get along with you.
They want you to die. If you can't live as well as they do, they really, truly want you to die. There's no other answer to their attack on our government and belief system as Americans because our government was built to help all the people and Americans have, for centuries, been the beacon of light for the oppressed masses.
Think I'm overreacting? I don't think so. A direct attack isn't the only way to endanger everyone.
I had a guy on my street that shot down it in his pickup like he was on a racetrack. The last time he did it, I threw a rock at his car and smashed his tail light. He stopped, got out in a huff and started approaching me, cursing. Fortunately, I was much bigger than him and a good deal angrier, because what I had done to him was a trifle compared to the danger he put all our kids in every day he raced up our street - and I let him know that in an angry tirade that even scared me. He finally got the message. His actions, while meaning nothing to him, were a menace to everyone around him, so much so that it was only a matter of time before it became a tragedy.
Conservatives believe their self-centered actions are their right. They could care less how everyone around them deals with it. Same type of action. Same type of effect. Same level of anger from me.
By the way, I paid for the tail light and my neighbor doesn't race down our street anymore. Can't say the conservatives would react that way at all.
They would just tell me to drop dead.