[DugwayDuke]

So the keystone of your strategy is a government shutdown?

[JRandomFreeper]

The entire plan is shutting down Obamacare, Amnesty, and the EPA and other nonsense.

That is what is required.

You seem to advocate making sure your party comes out unscathed.

/johnny

[donna]

Vote sales/trading.

Look at the results of the last election - shutdown worked well!

If the Republicans had any guts, they could easily blame shutdown on the lying rat Obama.

[trad_anglican]

So the keystone of your strategy is a government shutdown?

I agree. By going along with these continuing spending resolutions, the House has relinquished its ability to use its power of the purse strings. Whether they did it of their own accord or whether they were duped into it by the dems, they're stuck in it for the time being. Shutting down the government is not the way to use the power of the purse strings.

Hopefully the House will get its act together in January and start passing individual appropriations bills. Then they can use their power effectively.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

So the keystone of your strategy is a government shutdown?

The keystone of Obama’s strategy is a government shutdown. And as president, he cannot be prevented from doing it, by any Congress which refuses to be a rubber stamp.

That’s life in the big city.

[rollo tomasi]

"So the keystone of your strategy is a government shutdown?"

Yes


Do you support the current legal plundering schemes drowning growth? Is "kicking the can" constructive policy? How many times did Tip/Reagan shut down the government in the 1980's over differences in policies? Nothing wrong with stalemates/shutdowns, but in Reagan's case he got "played" by Tip's Commissions, i.e. Greenspan Commission in one example.

[Cen-Tejas]

This whole issue will become small change if oil keeps falling as Wall Street will then be looking to stick it to the taxpayer on their COLOSSAL derivative losses (trillions).

Shutdown or closing up (whole agencies) is coming no matter what the pubbies or dimwits do or don’t do. The States will be on their own to survive.

Sadly, to cure Washington, DC corruption, a financial Tsunami is needed because our 535 cannot act in the BEST interest of their country anymore!

[cotton1706]

“So the keystone of your strategy is a government shutdown?”

I don’t have a strategy, but the way to stop the current legislation is to prevent the rule from being passed. Then they would have to amend it.

But to answer your question, who in this country would notice at all if the government was “shut down” from December 12th to January 6th?? Most of the government will be either off or working with skeletal staffs anyway, except maybe for the post office, which will function as normal. Checks will still go out, etc. (because God forbid the parasites don’t get paid). The Congress itself is taking off the rest of the year from this Friday to January 6th. So who are we kidding.