I guess they thought, hey 800,000 federal workers with no pay, memorials and parks shuttered, FDA on its knees, EPA stunted................"It's ALL good!!!!"
Now that their cherished stock portfolios and IRA's are in danger, "Hey, let's pull the plug on this, before somebody gets hurt" (namely them and the GOP)
Comedy?
Comedy, you assholes?
"This is the quality of thinking—or lack thereof—that has afflicted many GOP conservatives from the beginning of this budget showdown," the editorial read. "They picked a goal they couldn't achieve in trying to defund ObamaCare from one House of Congress, and then they picked a means they couldn't sustain politically by pursuing a long government shutdown and threatening to blow through the debt limit."
The Journal said that if the Senate passes its compromise to avert default and reopen the government, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will likely have no choice "other than to bring it to the floor and let it pass with votes from either party."
"At least that's better than getting the blame for whatever happens if Treasury stops sending out Social Security checks in order to prioritize debt repayments," the editorial read. "The politics of that are little better than defaulting on debt. Republicans can best help their cause now by getting this over with and moving on to fight more intelligently another day."
Yes, because it's all about the politics until somebody (read: THEM) get hurt.
I'll close with George Harrison giving them exactly what they deserve
Piggies
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their sties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
*"one more time"
Now that these bozos have spent every last dime of political capital they THOUGHT they had, let's get some things done for the American people. The ones who elected us, anyway.
Obama appears to be ready to throw immigration into the ring, post haste.
Good on him.
Over and out