The Government Shutdown Countdown Lowdown MEGATHREAD

[11B4V]

We need a thread dedicated just to stupid stuff politicians say.

It would be bigger than the OT forum combined.

[merithyn]

We need a thread dedicated just to stupid stuff politicians say.

It would be bigger than the OT forum combined.

And a better read.

[Tamas]

Tamas was a lot less uppity when he had the Romanian loon to tard out with.

One of these days I will copy the hardcore Democrat soldier stand of DGuller just so I can see you turn into a Tea Party fanatic just to be contrarian to me.

Ahole.

will need you to forward me the weekly memos or whatever else you are working according to.

[DGuller]

Don't you have some beets to harvest?

[Tamas]

Don't you have some beets to harvest?

[Admiral Yi]

Senate blocked voting today on bills to fund parks, veterans, and NIH.

[Tamas]

Senate blocked voting today on bills to fund parks, veterans, and NIH.

[derspiess]

[merithyn]

Senate blocked voting today on bills to fund parks, veterans, and NIH.

This piecemeal crap isn't going to help the situation. They need to get their asses back to fixing the damn budget.

[derspiess]

Senate blocked voting today on bills to fund parks, veterans, and NIH.

This piecemeal crap isn't going to help the situation. They need to get their asses back to fixing the damn budget.

  you're supposed to use the term "clean CR"

[merithyn]

Senate blocked voting today on bills to fund parks, veterans, and NIH.

This piecemeal crap isn't going to help the situation. They need to get their asses back to fixing the damn budget.

  you're supposed to use the term "clean CR"

I have no idea what you're trying to say here. I'm guessing I should be okay with that.

[Admiral Yi]

This piecemeal crap isn't going to help the situation. They need to get their asses back to fixing the damn budget.

As I mentioned earlier, I don't understand this logic.  If parks being closed is a bad thing, shouldn't opening them be a good thing?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

http://thebirddog.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/a-brief-history-of-navy-football-and-government-shutdowns/

[The Brain]

This piecemeal crap isn't going to help the situation. They need to get their asses back to fixing the damn budget.

As I mentioned earlier, I don't understand this logic.  If parks being closed is a bad thing, shouldn't opening them be a good thing?

Rosa or regular?

[Berkut]

This piecemeal crap isn't going to help the situation. They need to get their asses back to fixing the damn budget.

As I mentioned earlier, I don't understand this logic.  If parks being closed is a bad thing, shouldn't opening them be a good thing?

So is the idea then that the Republican house shuts down the government by refusing to fund Obamacare, then they reasonably fix it by agreeing to piecemeal fund everything BUT Obamacare?


Isn't that just giving in to their demand that the Senate pass their budget bill that includes defunding Obamacare?


Can't you make that same argument about every single part of the budget not in dispute?


That leaves us with the de facto result that the people who DON'T want some particular item funded always win, as long as they have enough to put a stop to an inclusive budget.