Conservative columnist Thomas Sowell of the conservative Hoover Institution released an article today titled, "Who shut down the government?" I'm going to focus my attention one what I believe to be the key portion of the article, where Mr. Sowell writes the following:
"Since we cannot read minds, we cannot say who - if anybody - 'wants to shut down the government.' But we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to. The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for Obamacare.
The Senate chose not to vote to authorize that money to be spent, because it did not include money for Obamacare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a 'clean' bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word 'clean' like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants?
If sen. Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run Obamacare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility. You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government."
Ah, so that's how it works, does it? A law passes both the House and the Senate, gets signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court, but just before near full implementation of the law, House Republicans attempt to partially defund this law by sending such a bill over to the Senate, and since the Senate refused to accept the offer, the shutdown is on them and President Obama, eh? That's interesting.
So, according to Mr. Sowell, if I were to go through all the proper steps of buying a house, where everything was signed for and made official, if the seller then called me and said, "The only way you can still purchase this home is if you give up your car," it would then be my fault if I decided not to go through with it?
Perhaps Mr. Sowell should take his own advice - "You can't always get what you want."
Mr. Sowell, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. You can't always get what you want.
The healthcare reform bill passed both the House and the Senate before being signed by President Obama himself. You can't always get what you want.
Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. You can't always get what you want.
The bill is law and is to almost be fully implemented as of January 1, 2014. You can't always get what you want.
How about trying to get what you want by making some changes within the Republican Party and through that, appealing to more voters in the coming elections, as opposed to attempting to redefine "losing" by failing during the election cycle and then shutting down the people's voices through the shutting down of the government they voted into office?
http://www.hpe.com/opinion/x559273386/Thomas-Sowell-Who-shut-down-the-government
"Since we cannot read minds, we cannot say who - if anybody - 'wants to shut down the government.' But we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to. The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for Obamacare.
The Senate chose not to vote to authorize that money to be spent, because it did not include money for Obamacare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a 'clean' bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word 'clean' like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants?
If sen. Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run Obamacare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility. You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government."
Ah, so that's how it works, does it? A law passes both the House and the Senate, gets signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court, but just before near full implementation of the law, House Republicans attempt to partially defund this law by sending such a bill over to the Senate, and since the Senate refused to accept the offer, the shutdown is on them and President Obama, eh? That's interesting.
So, according to Mr. Sowell, if I were to go through all the proper steps of buying a house, where everything was signed for and made official, if the seller then called me and said, "The only way you can still purchase this home is if you give up your car," it would then be my fault if I decided not to go through with it?
Perhaps Mr. Sowell should take his own advice - "You can't always get what you want."
Mr. Sowell, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. You can't always get what you want.
The healthcare reform bill passed both the House and the Senate before being signed by President Obama himself. You can't always get what you want.
Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. You can't always get what you want.
The bill is law and is to almost be fully implemented as of January 1, 2014. You can't always get what you want.
How about trying to get what you want by making some changes within the Republican Party and through that, appealing to more voters in the coming elections, as opposed to attempting to redefine "losing" by failing during the election cycle and then shutting down the people's voices through the shutting down of the government they voted into office?
http://www.hpe.com/opinion/x559273386/Thomas-Sowell-Who-shut-down-the-government
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