So what's shut down for you?
POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Thursday, October 10, 2013 23:48
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WW2 vets need to get their asses to the Mexican border pronto
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Oh, so "the Congress" has NOT passed...?
So, "Obama" DIDN'T shut down the government?
So, YOU WERE WRONG?
Well, that's a monumental step in the right direction!
So, will you please then NOT refer to that same mistake over and over again, like you do with WMD?
Yanno what? The Senate is only doing what they were elected to do. Don't like it? Go argue with the Constitution. And when you find yourself on the very wrong end of an argument, maybe the best response is to STFU.
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Obama Admin Closes Part Of Ocean Due To Govt Shutdown to “inflict the maximum public pain”
http://benswann.com/obama-admin-closes-part-of-ocean-due-to-govt-shutd
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Originally posted by Niki2:
This is who you pay your IRS income taxes to since the British royal family are owners of the private foreign "Federal" Reserve Bank that counterfeits all so-called "US dollars" out of thin air then loans them at $1-billion/day interest to the US Govt.
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ZOG.
Zionist Occupied Government.
-Marrion-Webster Dictionary
In Firefly the Alliance merged the US flag with the flag of Communist China
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I said 'congress' when I shoud have stated ' the house '.
That's all.
The remainder of my position is still correct.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
Resident USA Freedom Fundie
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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So, whose fault is the shutdown NOW? It lies with "Congress", right? Obama doesn't even come into it, because it is CONGRESS' responsibility to come up with budget.
Yanno, Like I said in the other thread: Why don't the repubs OWN this? Isn't this what they want... to shut things down?
SAY IT LOUD AND SAY IT PROUD: I SHUT DOWN GUBMINT!
Stop being such wusses!
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The GOP just want to cut spending and save the country from O-care.
Obama is perfectly fine w/ destroying the country, no matter what.
Slowly, by implementing O-care, or quickly by keeping the govt shut down.
He's a born and raised radical. It's who he is.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
Resident USA Freedom Fundie
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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Quote:Oh, okay, and they get to do this legally or illegally, by any means necessary, right? Like how Reagan funded the Contras... how phantom WMD was used to start a war that overextended us... how torture can be reassigned names so we can say it's NOT torture...right?
Originally posted by AURaptor:
The GOP just want to cut spending and save the country from O-care.
We are a nation of law.
Bullfuckingshit.
Law of the jungle, baby.LOL.
If you can get away with it, it must be right.
I'll leave it to anyone silly enough to keep trying to get ANYTHING through Rap's thick skill to take it from here. -Niki 2013
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Quote:Here comes the whinging and weaseling!
The GOP just want to...
How are are those GOPers, anyway? Two years old??
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:LOL, an ultra right wing hate fest site? Really? Probably 10% of what's listed is even partially true.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/05/list-obama-closures
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Washington post Left enough for you?
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Losing a hard-fought battle confers no dishonor, but losing a badly chosen battle is embarrassing.
And then there’s ridiculous.
Into the last category goes the decision to close the nation’s monuments to make sure that the government shutdown strikes the hearts of all The American People, whose constant invocation by pandering politicians fills one with self-loathing. (Who wants to be an “American People,” given the quality of our spokesfolksen?)
Then again, ridiculous is perhaps too generous a word. Closing the monuments, especially the World War II Memorial, can be reduced, fittingly, to a single syllable: Dumb. It is fitting because the seated patron of the Mall, Abraham Lincoln, was famously monosyllabic. In trivia you can use, more than 70 percent of the words in the Gettysburg Address are of one syllable.
In more recent history, when a group of World War II veterans recently faced barriers blocking entry to the memorial — an open space requiring not so much as an attendant — these elderly warriors took a page from their Normandy playbook and stormed the barricades.
Can there be an image more inspiring than members of this venerable club, whose living roll declines each day by about 640, pushing their way through flimsy, useless, pointless barriers to roam among pillars erected to their heroism? What was Washington thinking?
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
President Obama, whose grandfather was a World War II veteran, might have known better. We may have to close down the government, he could have said, but don’t touch the monuments.
Instead, the Office of Management and Budget ordered the barricades.
That’ll show ’em.
Among the many reasons this was so clumsy, one stands out starkly: It isn’t as though the WWII guys can always come back another day. All are in their late 80s and early 90s, and time is of the essence. Moreover, most plan these trips well in advance and at considerable expense.
Thanks to the monument liberators, Washington officials were forced to rethink their decision and removed the barriers. The American People are now free to roam their public spaces that remember sacrifices beyond most imaginations.
Optically, symbolically and every other way, this seems too little too late. Shutting out veterans from their memorial touchstone was more than a bad call, a lapse of judgment, a mere moment of tone-deafness. In reality, it may have been the tidy effort of a box-checking bureaucrat, but it reeked of the small work of a petty bully.
Ditto the closing of the D-Day cemetery in Normandy, France, where more than 9,000 Americans are buried. And this is the president who recently declared that The American People are not political pawns to be used to score political points?
Barack Obama must have been an inkling in the prescient mind of H.L. Mencken when the curmudgeon from whom all op-eds flow once described democracy as “the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
While one may sympathize with Obama’s contempt for his congressional adversaries, he may have cut off his own nose with an unforced error of magnified proportions. Spite is unbecoming a president, as Richard Nixon proved in another era of national disruption. But beyond personality, it is baffling to imagine anyone thinking that the way to winning hearts and minds is by disrespecting the nation’s most beloved demographic.
I’ve often lamented the prospect of a world without my parents’ generation, not because they were perfect but because these mothers and fathers take with them a national treasure — their personal experiences and memories of the Great Depression and World War II and the lessons of sacrifiNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME