Every time a Republican gets before a camera, or any media for that matter, more lies and half-truths fall out of their mouths. (a) A few days ago, Barton of Arizona was comparing our President to Hitler but now denies it. (b) She released more unmitigated, slanderous misinformation on her Facebook than I've seen since the McCarthy era.
The Tea Party Republicans' fanaticism has gotten so bad, according to a "New York Times" article (c), the huge business lobbies that paid for them to get elected are seriously considering pulling their support. They quoted David M. Cote, the chief executive of Honeywell and a steering board member of Fix the Debt, as saying, “It’s clearly this faction within the Republican Party that’s causing the issue right now.” The article went on to say, "... they agree in principle with conservative lawmakers about the need to cut federal spending or roll back parts of Obamacare, but said using the threat of shutdown — or worse, of a debt default — to extract those concessions was both ineffective and dangerous."
Today in an effort to turn some of the heat off the Republican party, a whole bunch of GOP representatives, including Speaker of the House, John Boehner, went on national TV stating they, "...will give President Barack Obama a proposal extending the government's ability to borrow money through Nov. 22 — but only if he agrees to negotiate over ending the partial government shutdown and a longer-term increase in the debt ceiling." In other words, "Give us what we want or we'll bring this country to its knees."
President Obama HAS NEGOTIATED WITH THESE EXTREMEST during the last few showdowns to no avail. Therefore, the President said enough's enough. There will be no compromise while GOP uses the Affordable Care Act as leverage. Still.they continue to threaten a pending economic disaster to push their personal agendas.
"There are reportedly enough votes in the House to produce a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown for good. But until Boehner is willing to buck the hardliners in his own party, that vote is never going to happen." according to an article in Rolling Stone Politics. (d) They quoted a New York Times that notes, "the GOP plan to eliminate Obamacare – even if it means grinding the government to a halt – has been in the works for a long time. The current funding standoff is the result of a detailed blueprint drawn together by special interest groups, conservative lawmakers and billionaire donors." A preponderance of evidence points to just that fact...the GOP course of action is a planned attack to change the government to their bigoted ideals or bring it down.
It is the responsibility of the voting public to educate ourselves so we aware of those elected officials attempting to sway our opinions by hook and crook to their biased, single minded opinions. All those serving in the House, Senate and Presidential Office were elected to work for the good of EVERYONE in this country instead of tearing down what they personally do not like.
For the last 8 plus years, our Government has stopped functioning because the Congress lines up on party lines instead of voting for the good of the American People! The Republican Tea Party zealots are greatly responsible for that fact. DON'T CONTINUE TO LET THEM PULL THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES! WRITE, EMAIL, CALL AND TALK TO YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. TAKE AWAY THE POWER OF THESE RABID POLITICIANS AND ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE SOME POSITIVE STRIDES FORWARD.
(a) http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2013/10/house_speaker_john_boehner_say.html
(b) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/brenda-barton-hitler_n_4074388.html
(c) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/us/business-groups-see-loss-of-sway-over-house-gop.html?ref=federalbudgetus&_r=0
(d) http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/8-flagrant-examples-of-republican-shutdown-hypocrisy-20131007
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