Tiburon2k

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/16/po...down-showdown/



The government will apparently be funded until January 15. This is like a bad Hollywood movie, disaster diverted just in the nick of time, we can all breath again now. Who is still falling for this BS?

Stocker

You ask a question like that after they re-elected the Obama, it's a waste of energy. The answer is 'probably at least half the People'

faithofadragon

place holder for future shutdown in 90 days

Visionz

i8acobra

When the world gives you lemons... Send as many of them as you can to your home district:



http://news.yahoo.com/congressional-...001012679.html

Tibbi

This entire scenario is an analogy for the modern political process. One side starts screaming that they want X, and the other side so damn adamant to oppose the other that they just start slandering X and it's party affiliation then propose Y, the most extreme polar-opposite reaction. No one meets in the middle, there is no longer compromise. And to make matter worse, rather than realize that he's leading our country down the path to destruction, the president finds the nearest podium and starts in with the "My fellow 'muricans, X will kill you. The X party wants to see you dead and Y is the damn greatest thing since Starbucks and hand-jobs. Now go out there with my half-assed dramatization and regurgitate all of my fallacies mindlessly." In reality he needs to put his party affiliations aside and circumvent the issue by finding a middle ground. If you want to further investigate this point, go find 3 4 year olds, give one a toy and tell the other 2 they can never have it. Watch the current political process ensue. We need a president that is a leader and a mediator, not someone I'd wanna split a beer with after a round of golf.

i8acobra

The time for compromise was when the ACA was on the Senate and House floors for consideration. Not after being signed into law.

Stocker

It's kinda hard to have compromises when you are given a couple hours to read, consider and "debate" a 1000+ page bill before they bring it up for a vote.

wheel_of_steel

Tibbi

This!







But if 1986 is any clue, if any partisan entity wants something passed bad enough it's going to happen. "What call to record the vote? I heard no such. Oh well, moving on..."