With another Government Shutdown looming tonight if Congress cannot figure out a way to do their job and pass a spending bill, let’s take a look at some of the utter nonsense Republicans and Democrats packed into said spending bill – a massive $1.1 trillion spending package that would fund the government through September.
Senator Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor and renamed the Republican government shutdown for what it really is… Blackmail!
This debate is not about the Affordable Care Act. That is something that should be debated, I think it’s something that can be improved. What this debate is about is blackmail and hostage-taking. What my Republican colleagues, especially the right winged extremists in the House are upset about, is not so much Obamacare, what they are upset about is that the lost the election in November.
President Obama won by some 5 million votes! The lost seats, Republicans lost in the Senate, they lost some seats in the House. What they are upset about is that the cannot legislatively accomplish what they want through the normal legislative process. What legislation is about is the House passes a bill, the Senate passes a bill, they get together work on something, the president signs it. They don’t have the support to do that!
So what they have now concluded is that the only way they can go forward is to say if we don’t get our way, if we don’t shutdown the United States government and kill Obamacare or delay Obamacare, why that’s the only game in town, that’s all that we’re gonna do. We can’t do it no other way.
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Sitting on the sidelines with the rest of America, slowly taking in the fact that the GOP House has just shutdown the Federal government, I’m wondering what their real point was.
Right now the Republican Party aka The Tea Party, is coming off as a bunch of frat brothers raising hell on campus during a wild night of hazing and partying. A dumbbell mentality of mob rule and terrorism, simply because they have the newfound ability and power to do so.
No strategy, no compromising, no sensible plan A, B or even C. Just shouts of “Shut it down!” when the Senate refused to comply with a stop to the mandate of the Healthcare Reform Act in exchange for a continuing resolution to pay the country’s bills on time.
Speaking shortly before the first House vote Monday, Boehner said the measure to delay the mandate was about fairness.
“I would say to the president: This is not about me. This is not about Republicans here in Congress. It’s about fairness for the American people.”
But a recent survey of the American people conducted over the weekend begs to differ. About 60 percent of the 803 U.S. adults polled said they want lawmakers to “pass a budget agreement to avoid the shutdown!”
It had to be obvious to any GOPer with brains that the party would bear the brunt of the blame for this shutdown. What is the Republican plan to offset that blame, or have they not even thought that far ahead?
And now that they have proven that they can shutdown an entire government, what’s the Tea Party’s next mission for the hostage-looking Speaker Boehner?
We do finally know one thing for sure. What all John Boehner’s crying was about.
