Can we just shut the government down already?
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O-Trap
Did he actually say this?QuakerOats;1512696 wrote:Harry Reid: "Republicans are anarchists"
Libertarians aren't even technically anarchists, but they're even closer than Republicans ... to a large enough degree that the two parties don't even particularly get along as a whole.
Not defending the Republican Party, but Harry Reid is being a dumbass.
They paint a nice picture of the sky falling, but Washington has been screwing our economic situation up for a long, long time.IggyPride00;1513195 wrote:This paragraph from NY Magazine very succinctly lays out the stakes for the next 10 or so days as far as the debt ceiling goes. There is so much on the line for the hundreds of millions of American people, and we have a bunch of clowns in Washington who have given us no reason to believe they won't screw it up. -
QuakerOatshttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/05/Feds-Try-to-Close-the-OCEAN-Because-of-Shutdown
The absurd and twisted minds of left-wing central planners.
Time they get the hell out of the way of what is left of our freedom.
ENOUGH! -
IggyPride00
There have been calls from liberals to shutdown any and all energy production on federal government owned land during the shutdown. The regime has thus far resisted, but with them you never know as that would certainly become a major pressure point if they pushed it.QuakerOats;1513280 wrote:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/05/Feds-Try-to-Close-the-OCEAN-Because-of-Shutdown
The absurd and twisted minds of left-wing central planners.
Time they get the hell out of the way of what is left of our freedom.
ENOUGH! -
TedSheckler
With the closing of the national parks, I guess they are closing the side of the road around Mt. Rushmore so you can't park and look at it.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20131005/NEWS/310050021/Mount-Rushmore-blockage-stirs-anger-S-D- -
O-Trap
That's quite a barrier. Think anyone can cross it?TedSheckler;1513432 wrote:With the closing of the national parks, I guess they are closing the side of the road around Mt. Rushmore so you can't park and look at it.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20131005/NEWS/310050021/Mount-Rushmore-blockage-stirs-anger-S-D- -
majorspark
[video=youtube;JGFJSINB9kU][/video]O-Trap;1513220 wrote:Did he actually say this? -
O-Trap
Then he's either intentionally using deceptive, inflammatory language ... or he's a moron.majorspark;1513488 wrote:[video=youtube;JGFJSINB9kU][/video] -
majorspark
The former.O-Trap;1513501 wrote:Then he's either intentionally using deceptive, inflammatory language ... or he's a moron. -
jmog
I actually think it's both.O-Trap;1513501 wrote:Then he's either intentionally using deceptive, inflammatory language ... or he's a moron. -
O-Trap
If that was the case, then he'd be TRYING to use deceptive, inflammatory language, but he'd mess it up, because he'd be a moron.jmog;1513700 wrote:I actually think it's both.
I don't think that's the case here. I don't think Reid is stupid. Maybe delusional, but not stupid. -
gut
It fires up their base. Liberals cream their pants over the hateful and vile language used to attack Repubs...but if you criticize Obama with kid gloves you're a racist.O-Trap;1513710 wrote:If that was the case, then he'd be TRYING to use deceptive, inflammatory language, but he'd mess it up, because he'd be a moron.
I don't think that's the case here. I don't think Reid is stupid. Maybe delusional, but not stupid.
I think the Dems are slowly turning American politics into European-style discourse, where inflammatory rhetoric replaces civility. I still think liberals are a minority of the Dem party - I really can't understand how two of the more radical liberals (Reid and Pelosi) came to lead that party. -
Glory Days
I was there 2 years ago. I don't remember an area on the side of the road where you could pull over and see Rushmore. Even from the parking area, it was about a 10 minute hike.TedSheckler;1513432 wrote:With the closing of the national parks, I guess they are closing the side of the road around Mt. Rushmore so you can't park and look at it.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20131005/NEWS/310050021/Mount-Rushmore-blockage-stirs-anger-S-D- -
LJ
Why are you using large font about a website that is nothing more than information about what an Amber Alert is being shut down? -
jmogI find it deplorable that the Obama admin shut down the Amber Alert but kept the First Lady's "Let's Move" website open. Only to reopen the Amber Alert once they heard the uproar over their stupidity.
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LJ
jmog;1514336 wrote:I find it deplorable that the Obama admin shut down the Amber Alert but kept the First Lady's "Let's Move" website open. Only to reopen the Amber Alert once they heard the uproar over their stupidity.
They didn't shut down the Amber Alert. Amber Alerts are run by individual states and the nationwide database is run by NCMEC. The Amber Alert website that was down was nothing more than a website with a few links about what an Amber Alert is and how it works. -
Heretic
Because he's...LJ;1514333 wrote:Why are you using large font about a website that is nothing more than information about what an Amber Alert is being shut down?
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jmog
I understand as I read the link. I guess I should have put in one more word in my post to make it clear. I should have put "website" after Amber Alert in the first sentence.LJ;1514338 wrote:They didn't shut down the Amber Alert. Amber Alerts are run by individual states and the nationwide database is run by NCMEC. The Amber Alert website that was down was nothing more than a website with a few links about what an Amber Alert is and how it works.
It still is 100% retarded to shut down that website because of lack of funds, but keep Michelle's website up and running...how is "Let's Move" considered "essential" but the national Amber Alert website is "non-essential"? -
sleeper
So DOD employees are no longer on furlough due to the Pay Our Military Act. Is the government really shutdown? lol -
Devils Advocate
In tough times you have to make tough decisions. Maybe it is better for the Republic if we concentrate on 100's of thousands of children at risk of being obese and on Obamacare.jmog;1514352 wrote:I understand as I read the link. I guess I should have put in one more word in my post to make it clear. I should have put "website" after Amber Alert in the first sentence.
It still is 100% retarded to shut down that website because of lack of funds, but keep Michelle's website up and running...how is "Let's Move" considered "essential" but the national Amber Alert website is "non-essential"?
Or better yet be outraged at the Republicans for putting the "full faith and credit" of The United States at risk while they have a Tantrum like a spoiled three year old over legislation that has already been passed as law and funded. -
QuakerOats^^ "....over legislation that has already been passed as law and funded. "
Please explain the 'funded' part. Thank you. -
TedSheckler
Because he just copies and pastes straight from Drudge Report.LJ;1514333 wrote:Why are you using large font about a website that is nothing more than information about what an Amber Alert is being shut down?
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jmog
Drink the kool aid much?Devils Advocate;1514368 wrote:In tough times you have to make tough decisions. Maybe it is better for the Republic if we concentrate on 100's of thousands of children at risk of being obese and on Obamacare.
Or better yet be outraged at the Republicans for putting the "full faith and credit" of The United States at risk while they have a Tantrum like a spoiled three year old over legislation that has already been passed as law and funded.
The "full faith and credit" MAY come into affect if the debt ceiling isn't passed. However, the shut down has ZERO to do with "full faith and credit" even though Obama and the Ds are trying to make it out like it is. -
Devils Advocate
I can handle the Kool Aid, You just cant take the Truth Serum.
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Devils Advocate
TedSheckler;1514408 wrote:Because he just copies and pastes straight from Drudge Report.
Lulz...... and Reps