No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Let me make this absolutely clear to the GOP:
We Democrats are absolutely unified in that we offer you absolutely NOTHING. I know you need to save face so that you aren't 'disrespected.' Quite frankly, you not only deserve no respect, if this country didn't have certain kinds of laws protecting people like you, you ought to be run out of the country. Simply put, you don't like the way this republic works when you don't get the results you want. So you need to get out if you don't like it.
ObamaCare is the law. You might not like it. Honestly, I don't even like it. I want a single payer system. But it is the law, duly enacted, duly upheld by the Supreme Court, duly ratified in a national election. I want a single payer system. But guess what? I am not in favor of shutting down the government in order to get a single payer system. I am not in favor of defaulting on the debt in order to get a single payer system. Those are the demands of psychopaths, insurrectionists, and blackmailers. People like you. Or the rebel confederates who are your forefathers.
But alas, you are here. So here is what you must give us if you want to play any kind of role in governing this country:
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
Open up the government. Pay the nations bills. Then we will sit and listen to your sob stories and temper tantrums.