Posted on 09/18/2013 8:13:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Until now, the only House Republicans pushing for a government shutdown and debt crisis were a few dozen on the radical right, the ones Senator, Harry Reid, the majority leader, referred to as “the anarchists.” On Wednesday, however, the full Republican caucus, leadership and all, joined the anarchy movement, announcing plans to demand the defunding of health care reform as the price for keeping the government open past Sept. 30.
The decision means that a government shutdown next month is now much more likely. In the past, shutdown threats were averted because Republican leaders were willing to negotiate on spending issues, though the spending cuts that resulted were often harmful to important programs. But the health law is not negotiable for President Obama and the Democrats. By choosing this as their live-or-die issue, Republicans are driving straight toward the brink and removing the brake pedal.
What is worse, the House leadership also announced plans to make a series of demands of the White House in exchange for raising the debt ceiling in mid-October, threatening a government default if they don’t get their way.
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Seems to me the government shuts down now at least two days a week, except for holiday weeks when it is three out of seven days when it is shut down. Whats a few more days.
...And what’s with this obamaism of defaulting on our obligations? At best that is a bold face deception, at worse an outright lie. So nothing new there. I’m afraid Mr Obama is the finest example of the worst of the black race. And everything said about him before the first election has been proven beyond any doubt IMHO
I’m an anarchist (specifically, an anarcho-capitalist.) I can assure you (and everyone else) that no member of the House or the Senate is even close to being an anarchist. Perhaps we anarchists should sue Senator Reid and the NYT for defamation by falsely associating us with any members of Congress?
It can be either left or right. Left-anarchism rejects the right to property (many variations, but all oppose private ownership of the 'means of production.') Right anarchism accepts the right to own any and all physical objects. Right anarchism goes by various names, such as anarcho-capitalism, market anarchism, propertarian anarchism, agorism, voluntaryism, etc.
+1000! Perfect!
Back in the ‘60s when I was in high school the New York Times was considered a credible, even top-notch, newspaper. The thing has been run by foot-stomping children for the last few decades, and now is viewed by most normal humans as a liberal laughingstock. I sometimes wonder what Bill Safire would think of his old employer if he was still around.
Well, we know he reads the polls.
An-archy, meaning without government. I’d say we have about $3.5 trillion a year to go before that happens.
Death to all misplaced apostrophes!!
It’s in the NY Times, of course it’s straight from the White Hut.
I think that should have been VISE, not vice.
Now you know where my mind usually is.
Should have checked the dictionary.
Has the Kenyan warlord ever compromised with his opposition on a single bill?
This is our country too,yet they feel no duty to govern with us.
He might also say they are congenital liars.
The African communist Ubama is the President of the Black Democrats of America.
Period.
He is most definitely not my president.
“I don’t know how BoneHead grew a set overnight, but I’m glad he did”
I’m sure the “dead Tea Party” threatened to run someone against him. Regardless, boner needs to go.
I admire your passion for the correct use of apostrophe’s.
If the head of the welfare state wanted to start his revolution, wouldn’t this be the way he would do it and blame the republicans?
How about a Senate that refuses to do its basic Constitutional duty to pass a budget, forcing a series of continuing funding resolutions in its place to keep the government going, because it doesn't want to go on the record for or against anything, and would prefer to have the weapon of continuing resolution fights in order to beat the Republicans in the media than do what's right for the People?
-PJ
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