Posted on 02/16/2011 3:20:45 PM PST by TSgt
Anatomy of a Government Shutdown
“Of course a shutdown is possible because that's what the Republicans are threatening us with on national TV, Meet the Press or one of those dandies or whatever the show was. The Republican leader was asked, and I'm paraphrasing, 'is there going to be a government shutdown?' and he wouldn't respond to the question. So, this isn't Schumer or Reid or Hoyer. Of course it's a possibility. That's what we're trying to avoid."
-- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid talking to reporters about House Speaker John Boehner
President Obama warned of stopped Social Security checks and issued a formal veto threat Tuesday to the Republican spending plan currently being debated in the House, setting the stage for a potential government shutdown next month.
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Fish got to swim. Birds got to fly. Politicians got to spend money. Bank on it.
Shut it down, and never revived it, the Federal Government is a wast of money we don’t need. We can’t compromise with satanic states like New York in Massachusetts so let the government fall.
Let us be free of their socialist evil. So by all means shut it down, the democrats have a lot more to lose then we do.
““My memory was that Clinton was able to make it ricochet on Gingrich.”
That was in 1995 when there was not a huge Federal defecit. Things are a lot different now.”
It’s not all different. The Democrats are using the same sociopath technocrat to produce hyperfraudulent budget estimates, JACOB J. LEW. DIRECTOR. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET.
This scumbag has personally overseen the destruction of the last bits of integrity in the US Federal Budgeting process, and he is back again to cannibalize the corpse one last time before the whole Ponzi scheme implodes at the speed of light.
He is the ultimate capo of the imprisoned debtors of the North American gulag.
I Hope he shuts it down for a year. That would pay off the debt Soebarkah has run up.
Bring. It. On.
I don’t think the SSA or the military would be affected, no matter what scare tactics and swack obastard talks.
The only problem with shuting down the government is that everyone will then realize just unessential most of it is. Then watch the sh** hit the fan. SHUT IT DOWN!
Great idea!
All secret service can go on holiday.
... maybe he’s thinking of Kenya? Ya never know.
He will have the full power of the LSM to cover for him so he feels confident that he will be able to be the cause of it but lay the blame on someone else. The LSM will dutifully trot out “victims” of the government shutdown and portray how they are “suffering” at the hands of the Republicans.
I think it was Clinton who shut the government down and blamed Pubbies, who rolled over.
Looks like that will happen again.
Grinning like a possum eating a sweet po-tater.
Shut it down!
Let me help you pack!
Clinton was GOOD. Obama is a Mooktard.
It hadn't been done before, when Clinton did it. It has been done before and the Republicans (hopefully) are ready, now.
So let me see if I get this straight....the Republicans submit a spending plan...Obama doesn’t like it and vetoes it which causes a government shutdown...and it’s the FAULT of the Republicans?
Start by shutting down the IRS.
We lived this scenario in 1995. I believe the message, leadership and economic conditions are much different. barry will lose this one. I ask the house to hold out to the bitter end and wipe-out OBAMACARE first and foremost.
No way. The Republicans got the blame ALL of it and it cost them in the next round of elections. Why else would Urkle be saying “make my day.”
The GOP is hapless.
Yup, let us explain to the American people why it is VITAL that the deficit be $1.46 trillion instead of $1.56 trllion.
I am sure it will be stimulating.
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