Anyone else (possibly) getting a mandatory vacation come Tuesday?

[Sava]

Uh why do you use the term repugs?

Because even rah acknowledges that his party is morally repugnant, at the moment.

[kentonio]

Oh please. One side is responsible for this mess. And it's not even all Republicans. It's the Tea Party nut cases.

Bingo. Even a majority of the house Republicans are supposedly against this ****.

[Hauldren Collider]

If a majority of house republicans were against this, they wouldn't have done it.

[DinoDoc]

Uh why do you use the term repugs?

Because he's a Republican.

[kentonio]

If a majority of house republicans were against this, they wouldn't have done it.

Why exactly do you think that Boehner won't allow a straight up vote on a clean resolution?

[Sava]

Pay attention everyone. This shutdown... this is the Republican plan for governing. They hate government. They hate America. They want this country to burn.

[giblets]

Rah, the republican party doesn't care about old fucks who still think SS and Medicare can stay the same.

They don't care about winning elections?

[DinoDoc]

Why exactly do you think that Boehner won't allow a straight up vote on a clean resolution?

Because he can't get a majority of the caucus to support it and would like to keep being Speaker I guess.

[Lorizael]

Republicans shouldn't be in favor of the shutdown. Big Pharma is all like, "Lori, please let us sell drugs to other countries!" and I'm all like, "Sweet, only a couple more seasons until Sam Waterston shows up!"

[DinoDoc]

Yes, saying that you won't do your damn job and keep the country running unless your political opponents let you try and wreck their (already passed) legislation is not ok. Don't try and make out as if this is about a delay, the Republicans have been quite open about their intentions to use every tactic possible to wreck the whole thing.

I would still be interested in why you feel the delay and the removal of the Congressional exemption are unreasonable demands given the delays Obama himself (without Congress) has already instituted.

[The Mad Monk]

Shutdowns have worked to force issues the past seventeen times they have occurred.

This is not new. It's not even excessive yet.

[Sava]

I would still be interested in why you feel the delay and the removal of the Congressional exemption are unreasonable demands given the delays Obama himself (without Congress) has already instituted.

You seem fixated on this.

Nobody cares.

You are fail.

[kentonio]

I would still be interested in why you feel the delay and the removal of the Congressional exemption are unreasonable demands given the delays Obama himself (without Congress) has already instituted.

Any demands for modifications of Obamacare are unreasonable in this setting. Obamacare already passed into law, was authorized by the Supreme Court and is right now being put into action. This is nothing more than (yet another) attempt to undermine it in any way possible, and you know that perfectly well.

You and the GOP lost and it's time you manned up and took it like a man instead of this eternal crying and lashing out at innocent Americans who just want to get on with their jobs and pay their bills in peace.

[DinoDoc]

You seem fixated on this.

Not really. I'm starting to see the appeal of a Let it Burn strategy. I'm simply curious why those are seen as unreasonable demands by posters such as Oerdin and Kentonio.

[Sava]

Not really.

Maybe you just don't know what the word means?