With the government shutdown looming, Twitter has exploded with lovely back-and-forths between Tea Partiers in support of the shutdown to delay Obamacare for a year and moderates and liberals whom don't want a government shutdown, regardless of what they think of the healthcare bill.
Tea Partiers have gone after a couple of my comments, which I'll briefly write about in a couple of separate blogs. This may be my favorite of the two responses.
My tweet was, "Here's an idea - shut down the Tea Party so the government can actually function."
It has been my belief that the Tea Party, so long as President Obama is running the show, doesn't want the government to function. They've attempted to place the government on shutdown since the Republican Party took control of the House in 2011. Their sole focus it seems has been on getting rid of Obamacare. Even though Democrats control the Senate and Oval Office, House Republicans have attempted to repeal the bill over 40 times. They then attempted to defund parts, which failed as well. Now they're going the delay-route. If this fails, they contend they won't back down, which will force a government shutdown, which seemed to be their goal all along.
Without the Tea Party, I believe Congressional Democrats and Republicans would be able to get more done. However, with the Tea Party involved, it seems as if compromise is no longer an option. Due to this, I sincerely hope American voters vote these extremists out of office in 2014 and beyond so we can be void of their destruction in Washington and elsewhere. That's all I was saying with my tweet. However, that's not how one Tea Partier took it.
He said: "Tea Partiers got elected like anybody else. What you're suggesting is totally totalitarian!"
Yeah, totally... While it's perfectly acceptable for a party to take the U.S. economy hostage over a bill which was signed by a president who was democratically elected and re-elected by the American people, voting Tea Partiers out of office through a democratic process is "totally" totalitarian indeed...
Tea Partiers have gone after a couple of my comments, which I'll briefly write about in a couple of separate blogs. This may be my favorite of the two responses.
My tweet was, "Here's an idea - shut down the Tea Party so the government can actually function."
It has been my belief that the Tea Party, so long as President Obama is running the show, doesn't want the government to function. They've attempted to place the government on shutdown since the Republican Party took control of the House in 2011. Their sole focus it seems has been on getting rid of Obamacare. Even though Democrats control the Senate and Oval Office, House Republicans have attempted to repeal the bill over 40 times. They then attempted to defund parts, which failed as well. Now they're going the delay-route. If this fails, they contend they won't back down, which will force a government shutdown, which seemed to be their goal all along.
Without the Tea Party, I believe Congressional Democrats and Republicans would be able to get more done. However, with the Tea Party involved, it seems as if compromise is no longer an option. Due to this, I sincerely hope American voters vote these extremists out of office in 2014 and beyond so we can be void of their destruction in Washington and elsewhere. That's all I was saying with my tweet. However, that's not how one Tea Partier took it.
He said: "Tea Partiers got elected like anybody else. What you're suggesting is totally totalitarian!"
Yeah, totally... While it's perfectly acceptable for a party to take the U.S. economy hostage over a bill which was signed by a president who was democratically elected and re-elected by the American people, voting Tea Partiers out of office through a democratic process is "totally" totalitarian indeed...
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