The Republican Party has today, on the 11th day of the Shutdown, admitted to what we always knew: This is a hostage situation.
Previously, the hostage was Obamacare: “Defund this or we won’t take care of our financial obligations.”
That didn’t work, so now there is a new hostage. “OK, then how about Medicare? Will you change that?”
At least they are admitting at this point that they are holding a gun to America’s head until they can get what they couldn’t accomplish through democratic means.
Seriously, what is the message they are sending? If you don’t win elections and don’t have enough votes to get what you want, then threaten to destroy everyone until you get your way? This is democracy? This is what our forefathers planned?
At least with this new action, the Republicans are pretty much admitting this, because there really is no other explanation that you can give with a straight face.
Gallup says this is lowest either party has ever rated in twenty years, since they started asking this question.
Look at the numbers. And look at that drop, which matches perfectly the shutdown (or as the Daily Show calls it, “Shut Storm”). Americans are smart enough to know who to blame for this.
As my last two posts have commented, this is suicide for the Republican party. The fact that they cannot see that it is shows how deluded they are and how out of touch with the American people.
Speaker Pelosi would be once more moving this country forward, if the election were held today.
I’ve already pointed out more than once that this shutdown is suicide for Republicans, but that they are so much in the bubble that they cannot see this. Since they only listen to Fox News and talk to each other, all they ever get are reassurances that everyone agrees with them when that is far from the truth.
The latest polls have shown that if the election were held today, they’d lose the House. This was not true a month ago.
Of course, a year is forever in politics and anything can happen by next November, but you would have to be absolutely clueless and/or stupid to deny that the shutdown is bad for the GOP. Yet I still have friends on Facebook who support it and who blame Democrats for it.
One Facebook friend today posted that we should all email the White House to demand that Obama negotiate. When I pointed out that Obama had invited Republicans to the White House and most of them refused to attend, his response was along the lines of “Sure, why should they since it won’t accomplish anything?” (Pause for laugh track.)
OK, fine, don’t listen to me. I don’t mind that you’re committing suicide — good riddance. But do you have to kill my country along with you?
Senator Cruz has been practically giddy with the government shutdown. As a man who has never seen a government program he liked that did not involve regulating women’s reproductive rights, this has been a lifelong dream.
“And why stop here?” the Senator asks. “If this works, we can force Obama to get rid of other laws that have passed. Why limit ourselves to just laws that have passed and been upheld by the Supreme Court in the past two years? The Civil Rights Act, Social security, votes for women — the list is endless!”
“I never realized that people who hate government could possibly try to destroy that government once elected,” said one clueless voter.
Other clueless voters have different views. “Our government may be destroyed, we may lose our place as the richest country in the world, and we may never again have the respect of the world when it comes to our good credit, but at least in exchange we’re letting poor people without health insurance die, right?”
Cruz sees no problem with his venture, and thinks it fits perfectly with his idea of the desires of the Founders. “Simply because the law was passed and signed by the President and then upheld by the Supreme Court and has already been implemented despite our 43 failed votes to repeal it doesn’t mean we can’t keep fighting to get rid of it,” he says. “As every schoolchild knows, once a bill becomes a law that doesn’t mean it gets implemented.”
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