Just my thoughts this morning, start of day 2 of the shutdown of 2013, but at this time I BELIEVE the GOP/teabag party members of the House do not intend to EVER restore full funding to the Federal Government...they plan for this "shutdown" to be permanent.
I also think they will not fund the debt, crashing the US economy - again - and damaging the world economy - also again.
According to research done by Rachel Maddow's staff, Teabaggers RAN for election in 2010 promising to shut down the Federal Government, and I am pretty sure they did not intend for this to be a few days or even a few months...
I have been following the more radical righties for some years, not necessary the politicians, but the real rank and file crazies that are the teabag supporters behind the scenes...gun nuts, militia members, dominionists, secessionists...I think the idea is to split states from the Federal Government, trying for a second "confederation"...Recall the rhetoric from the early Teaparty days about starving the Federal Government, drowning it in the bathtub, etc...I believe not this is their ultimate intention, to start another country all their own.
This is just my opinion, of course, but think about their past rhetoric, and lack of patriotism or real love of country...
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