The Tea Party Way, Governing By Extortion

[bobabode]

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topof...,7267622.story


So much for the full faith and credit of the United States.

[icenine]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_4010592.html

[mpholland]

Not being partisan here, but it seems to me this fight wouldn't exist if a realistic budget was passed and they actually stuck to it. I don't agree with the GOP tactics, but I also don't see the logic in having to raise the debt ceiling again and again at the end of every year.

[CarlV]

Yes, creating a budget and then having to vote many times to fund it is rather silly. The budget was done and Republicans voted for funding the PPACA parts of it then.
This is just a bunch of punk terrorists trying to hold my country hostage while they run it into the ground. No logical person would negotiate with thugs like these and I certainly hope they don't.

And besides,


Mitt Romney ran his campaign hard on repealing PPACA. Obama ran on putting it in place. The voters voted. Guess who won?


Carl

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by CarlV

Yes, creating a budget and then having to vote many times to fund it is rather silly. The budget was done and Republicans voted for funding the PPACA parts of it then.
This is just a bunch of punk terrorists trying to hold my country hostage while they run it into the ground. No logical person would negotiate with thugs like these and I certainly hope they don't.

And besides,


Mitt Romney ran his campaign hard on repealing PPACA. Obama ran on putting it in place. The voters voted. Guess who won?


Carl

Used to be, elections meant something.

[ZeroJunk]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Used to be, elections meant something.

So, you are saying the election of the House meant nothing ? The biggest reason the Republicans have the House is Obamacare.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

So, you are saying the election of the House meant nothing ? The biggest reason the Republicans have the House is Obamacare.

No.

The biggest reason Republicans have the House is criminal redistricting.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

So, you are saying the election of the House meant nothing ? The biggest reason the Republicans have the House is Obamacare.

No, I'm saying the ACA was passed by congress, signed by the prez and survived a bullshit challenge all the way to the supreme court. Get it?

So far your gang of the whinyest, OCD losers this country has seen since the 'Know Nothing Party' has obsessively tried to repeal a law 41? mebbe 42? times, (I've lost count) at an exorbitant cost to the taxpayers of this nation. While failing epically everytime they bring it up.

Now they want to run our full faith and credit into the shitter for their losing game. Personally, I would like them to be locked up as traitors but I guess we will just have to wait for the next elections to run your sorry asses outta town on a rail. Clear enough for you, Zero?

[whell]

Originally Posted by CarlV

,


Mitt Romney ran his campaign hard on repealing PPACA. Obama ran on putting it in place. The voters voted. Guess who won?


Carl

No one. We all lost. And then the SCOTUS double down on it.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by mpholland

Not being partisan here, but it seems to me this fight wouldn't exist if a realistic budget was passed and they actually stuck to it. I don't agree with the GOP tactics, but I also don't see the logic in having to raise the debt ceiling again and again at the end of every year.

I don't see the logic in having a debt ceiling, we are the only industrialized nation that farts about with such childish crap