Originally Posted by wildcat4funThe "shit for brains" who closed the Federal government isn't Obama, it's Ted "Asshole" Cruz (and his tea-bagger coconspirators), with an assist from John "Please tell me where you tea-baggers hid the mason jar you put my balls in" Boehner.
House Republicans have shut down the government and are threatening to keep the government shuttered not in order to delay further discussion on a pending bill, but rather in an attempt to rewrite the history of the legislature, to override a Constitutional law that has already been decided and judged constitutional before the Supreme Court.Cheers,
For better or worse, the ACA is now part of the fabric of our nation and so intertwined within our laws that repealing it without suitable replacement would cause vastly more harm than good. The majority has spoken, the minority was acknowledged, the end result is precisely how our government is supposed to work.
While the House of Representatives is responsible for “the power of the purse,” that doesn’t mean that they are entitled to the tyranny of minority rule.
The power of the purse is the House’s responsibility, not license to hold the majority hostage.
What House Tea Party Republicans are demanding with this shutdown is nothing less than a line-item veto over the established laws of our nation.
If this tactic is allowed to stand, if it succeeds, if Present [sic] Obama capitulates to a small minority of extremists, then we will have given both this legislature and all future ones, the absolute power of tyranny via deadlock.
If allowed to become precedent, our government will permanently cease to function in any effective manner, perhaps not immediately, but eventually and if history is any guide it’ll be sooner rather than later.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And you don’t have to look any further than Congress to see the truth of that platitude.
If we allow this tactic to become precedent, it will be abused. It is inevitable.
BCG truly is in a class all his own. Originally Posted by Abbey_JonesI've been told more than once that after I came along they threw away the mold.
I've been told more than once that after I came along they threw away the mold.I'm stealing that BCG. I too have run into the "mold" issue a time or two !
I've also had it pointed out to me that in the years since then, most of the mold has grown back.
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Cheers,
bcg Originally Posted by bluffcityguy