People's lives are at stake
The Republican Party is screwing with people's lives
America NEEDS health care reform
America NEEDS a functioning Government
Mitt Romney LOST.
President Barack Obama WON. Again.
You need to fucking deal with it.
Harming 99% of America so they will blame Obama is evil.
And that is what this is about. People will not get paychecks. That will HURT the economy. But saboteur Republicans are fine with that, they will pretend it is Obama's fault. In an economy where consumer spending is already suppressed this Government shutdown is going to hurt the avergae American, and guess what Republicans: YOU BUILT THAT.
So from this point on the GOP is NEVER allowed to whine about Obama's economy ever again. From this point on any downturn the economy takes is ENTIRELY on the GOP. You broke it, you bought it.
Honest people don't take hostages. Terrorists take hostages.
Last time Obama gave Republicans 98% of what you wanted. That's not going to happen again.
Obama seems to have learned his lesson.
You can not negotiate with dishonest Republicans.
America seems to have learned our lesson.
We can not vote for dishonest Republicans.
Having lost the Presidential election with their candidates, a heartless lying multi-millionaire and a zombie eyed granny starver, the GOP is trying to punish America for voting for Obama. Every thing Obama has done since defeating McCain/Palin has been met with lies, vitriol and at best zero GOP support. The GOP logic has been that it is better to sabotage America's post-Bush recovery than to let President Obama and Democrats fix it. You can disagree with President Obama and the Democratic Party but you can not deny them the right to govern that they earned when they win elections.
What does the GOP hope to achieve? Their 2014 chances didn't look great before. This isn't helping. 2016 looks even worse for the GOP. Demographically, the Republican world is coming to an end.
So what do you do when you can no longer win the electoral college with your failed and unpopular ideas.
You light a match
You blow the joint
This isn't how a sane political party works, it's how an insurance scam works.
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Egged on by the FoxNewsiverse, the GOP keeps getting crazier and crazier
Michael Tomasky of TheDailyBeast agrees . . . Republicans Aren’t Hostage Takers, They’re Political Terrorists
It’s naive to call them anything else. What they’re doing here is not hostage taking, the most commonly used metaphor in the media. It’s political terrorism. When hostage takers see that their demands are met, they release the hostage. But what makes anyone think today’s Republicans will ever release the hostage? No—if the Democrats agree to negotiate, the demands will never stop. Every pivot point on the legislative calendar will be an opportunity to make demands without precedent in our system.
Be sure to read Tomasky's piece, it is spot on in my opinion . . .
Before Republicans used to only be able to harm us when they were in power, now the GOP wants to be able to harm 99% of Americans even when they are out of power unless power they can't win in elections is ceded to them.
This is unacceptable
So let's be honest. What the GOP is doing by holding the basic functioning of America hostage is economic terrorism, financed by the same fatcat jerks who funded the failed Romney/Ryan campaign. The GOP thinks compromise is "I saw off your head or one of your arms, but you get to choose which arm."
No deal.
So here it is. I guess I have to be that guy. So I am saying it. No more Mr. Nice Liberal.
I am against Republican economic terrorism.
If your ideas are better you should try winning Presidential elections with them again, my friend. You have til 2016 to turn your flaming dumpster fire of a conservative movement around, and the smartest thing you can do is to ditch the Tea Party.
But until then stop throwing your hissyfits and get back to work. And your job isn't to repeal stuff. Once upon a time we had sane Eisenhower Republicans who could build shit. Now all we have left is the John Derp Society.
America has listened to Republicans ideas, and the answer is NO, nor is the answer up for negotiation. Come back in 2016 with better ideas. And if you don't, if you stick to your tired and ludicrous trickle down austerity nonsense with your teabag wearing loons you will have no one to blame for your political extinction but yourselves. You will have BUILT THAT.
People's lives are at stake. They desperately need access to better health care. America needs a sane and functioning government.
If the Republican party clearly doesn't give a shit about the suffering of non-millionaires they will reap what they sow, an American public outside the FoxNewsiverse who totally tunes out the GOP. In the end that might be our best hope.
One side is to blame. This isn't a both sides do it thing, it's not a "who is winning, who is losing thing". It isn't a game. One side is to blame for playing games with our lives so they can win petty political power for their 1%ers only agenda that America will no longer vote for.
So here are my terms to the hostage taking Tea Party. You are welcome to destroy the Republican party but you can't take America down with you.
Obama won. Again.
Mitt Romney LOST. Just like John McCain did.
Deal with it. The sooner you pull your heads out of your asses and turn off the FoxNewsiverse the better it will be for America.
But until then, mindless hostage taking and other acts of economic sabotage will not be tolerated.
So it's time to call what the GOP is doing out for what it is.
It's economic terrorism.
Republican sponsored economic terrorism.
The goal is to cause harm to America.
Because nothing is more important to Republicans than destroying Obama's Presidency.
Even if it hurts the Americans they are supposed to serve.
The guy who's plan is to hurt America until his demands are met is a terrorist, it's time to call them out for what they are.
End rant