Posted on 10/01/2013 6:50:58 PM PDT by Jane Long
So in the meantime, will all the social services lose their function? Will public universities and hospitals and basic research centers and all programs that provide assistance to the disabled and elderly are gonna be eliminated during this shutdown?
If so, that could result in pressure even from those who have previously been apathetic to the political process. They may be those who have not voted at all but could get indignant if they get the impression that the shutdown is causing elderly, disabled and others to lose federal aid and causing public schools and universities and research centers to lose all their funding.
Are they all gonna lose federal support too? If so, that will cause added pressure to be placed on the House GOP and as a result, more of them might cave too.
Well then if that is all so important then Obama should be negotiating with the Republican House but he is not.
None of those people ever vote for Republicans anyway.
BTW welcome to Frteerepublic, Obamabot.
Will you be staying long???
I am not an Obamabot, I am as against Obamacare as anyone here.
What I am saying is how can the House GOP get the public opinion on their side over this? I want them to do it, but I genuinely wonder exactly what the House GOP will have to do to get the public to on their side.
The question is, how do they do that? If important sources of funds that certain people depend on are not there, how can it be shown that Obama should get the blame instead?
That's not true. You are here to feed the the surrender monkeys.
What I am saying is how can the House GOP get the public opinion on their side over this?
They have the public on their side since 70% of the people oppose Obamacare.
And they have 100% of the people who voted them into office on their side.
Who else is necessary -- Obamabots, surrender monkeys, overpaid underworked slurpers at the public trough???
Interesting that you mention “basic research centers”.
The Republicans are sending a bill to the floor today to fund NIH.
When the Dems vote it down too, will you blame Republicans?
I won’t at all. But I just hope that the rest of America will be able to be as astute in seeing whose really orchestrating all of this. What scares be is how the majority of Americans are gonna view this.
It may just be the fact that I am surrounded by academics who are all gonna say it is 100% the fault of the Republicans for not simply accepting all of Obamacare as written. And needless to say, I know what crap that all is. But maybe it is just hard for me to get realistic perspective on what the American people are actually thinking.
It is hard to get through the media.
Supposedly there’ll be simple majority votes on some of the partial funding bills today which will send them to the Senate so the media will have to report that the Rs are trying to open parts of the government- well, unless a kitten falls down a well or some other more ‘newsworthy’ event happens....
You know, several RINOs are saying in public how much they want to pass the Senate CR, but are saying in private to Boehner “please don’t let me vote on that Senate bill”.
They are stuck between a constituency of public employees and the danger of a Tea Party primary or even third party challenge.
So Boehner has them by the short hairs.
Fair enough. So do you think this will last? 3 weeks or more? 4 weeks? 2 months or more? About how long do you see this lasting?
I see partial funding happening up until around the debt limit- maybe longer.
Your academic parasite friends should be encouraging their sens and reps to get incuded in one of those bills.
But I’m no seer.
‘Concern troll is concerned’.
Actually, I think he’s ‘concerned’ of his paycheck. Which I can understand.
The conversation made me realize:
Once the Dems pass a few more partial funding bills guys like him are going to be screaming at their dem reps “What about me! Get me that partial funding!”
Two of those guys are from the Hampton Roads area in VA. With all the military, NASA, and the big shipyard closed down by this thing those guys have a lot of constituents that are crying to them. So it would be all but impossible to get them to man up. I heard on the radio this morning that this area is the second hardest hit with the shutodwn.
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