Why wouldn’t they allow a “shutdown”? Almost every program they want intact remains chugging along untouched; only those pesky big government services. There’s no incentive for one party to do their jobs, so they just decided to… not.
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Maybe shade it a tad more red. I don’t know about you, but my anger level is quickly approaching DEFCON 1.
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I work for in the DOI, so I have a bit of time on my hands right now. I wonder if Sally Jewel could get me a job at REI?
Its the diseased tinge to its hideous empurpledness that does it for me.
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The 27th Amendment sort of makes that impossible, no matter how satisfying it would be.
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They could demonstrate their commitment by donating their salaries to charity.
Of course 60% of them are millionaires (at least) so I guess it doesn’t hurt them or “their people” any…
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When I walked out of the Natural History Museum this morning after “winding down activities”, I saw a young family - tourists? - standing in front of the sign outside the Constitution Avenue entrance declaring that the Museum is closed. They posed for a photo with the sign.
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The host is suggesting adding a rider or amendment on a continuing resolution that would take them out of the essential services category. I imagine it would have to go to the courts, but I guess this is possible since COLAs are upheld and it would only be temporary (so there’s your loophole). But, it’s all moot anyway since Congress thinks it’s too precious to miss a paycheck or two while they screw everyone else.
Except that some of that evil Big Government socialism-type stuff is also still going on, including a particularly pesky insurance program that they wanted delayed. I wonder if at one of their strategy meetings someone really said, “Hey, let’s do something that will pretty much guarantee everything we don’t want will still go on.”
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Saw on local news that our Democratic senator furloughed almost everybody and shut down her office. The Republican decided that 100% of his staff was “essential” and they all have to work (presumably without pay, more or less illegally).
Both of them keep their $400,000 salaries in the meantime, so they both suck.
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Oh God, ohgod, ohgod - that Stevie wonder song. And you’ve made it go round and round in my head now.
If I could reach you, I would so totally tip you!
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We can hope that some are decent human beings and have quietly donated their salaries to charities that are dealing with the govt. dropping the ball.
So this means that all the useful stuff the US government does for its people grinds to a halt, while all the pointless and unpleasant stuff it it does to them and the rest of us carries on as normal?
USA, you just weird …
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I’ve seen this one floating through the tubes…
“And Jesus spoke unto the Republicans, “If a healthcare plan is extended to the poor, you must shut down the government. I only help the rich. Heal yourselves, you dirty lepers. #YOLOSWAG” — Psalms 4:20Pretty sure this is from the Book of Caucasians.
the “book of” got a chuckle out of me.
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The CDC? That’s kind of important! Holy crap:
“That means no in-depth investigations to identify and link outbreaks that may be occurring simultaneously in multiple states, according to a CDC spokeswoman. While state public health investigators may detect outbreaks on their own territory, “we won’t be doing the cross-state consultation and laboratory work to link outbreaks that might cross state borders”
This is great timing–right when the MERS crisis is developing.
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They probably wouldn’t suffer anything like the amount that ordinary people would in any case. I would prefer a [papal election style conclave][1]:
To resolve prolonged deadlocks in the earlier years of papal elections, local authorities often resorted to the forced seclusion of the cardinal electors, such as that first adopted by the city of Rome in 1241, and possibly before that by Perugia in 1216. In 1269, when the forced seclusion of the cardinals alone failed to produce a pope, the city of Viterbo refused to send in any materials except bread and water. When even this failed to produce a result, the townspeople removed the roof of the Palazzo dei Papi in their attempt to speed up the election.
It would be an interesting sight to see thousands of people beseiging Congress until the reps do their job.
[1]: Papal conclave - Wikipedia
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Gawd, I must sleep! Read that first line as, “To preserve dreadlocks in the early years of paypal selections…”
mrrrrmph…
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I think we should have immediate recall elections for all of the house, with the reps sequestered like a jury while their voting records speak for them.
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Of course it’s purple. Both Republicans and Democrats mashed it together.
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