The ramifications of the government shutdown have clearly shown those who caused it to be either idiots or traitors. They have taken food from the mouths of babies by closing the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutritional program to provide needed dairy products for babies and pregnant mothers. They have taken — stolen — money from millions of federal workers, contractors, and small businesses who rely on them. Obviously this has also affected all of these peoples’ families too. They have made a mockery of “government by the people, for the people and of the people.” They have disgraced the dead of the great Civil War and the words of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg — whether a government of the people shall stand.
The debt debacle is even worse. They’ve made a mockery of American democracy before the world. They have shaken the foundations of the global economic system. They have undermined confidence here and abroad in the dollar and in the ability of the US to govern itself. They may well have undermined the full faith and credit of the United States.
They have stalled any creeping economic recovery by yet again pulling money out of the economy — an economy desperate for consumer confidence.
Thankfully, they have shown themselves for what they are — treasonous traitors. Finally, the American people have begun to see their actions and their motivation for what it is. The Tea Party, which is a practically meaningless catchall for a bunch of rag-tag fronts for America’s plutocrats and oligarchs, poll at about 20 percent approval and the Republican Party polls just a bit higher.
The Republicans, Koch boys who play with American lives as if they were toys, Grover (drown the American government in a bathtub) Norquist and his over-billed Club for Growth have all shown their contempt and disdain for the American people. Now their minions in Congress beg the President for negotiations so they can save face. They deserve no face-saving, no respect. They deserve no quarter.
They do deserve to be defeated again and again and again by a pissed off electorate that refuses to forget.
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