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| [credit: R.J.Matson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch] |
Wackydoodle sez: "Mabee he should step outside fer some daylight and clear his head."
Update: The sticking points according to Senate Majority Leader Reid are not the level of budget cuts, but ideologically driven riders attached to the budget bills by Repugnants. Two of the main proposed riders(there are 80 in the House continuing resolution, H.R.1) are anathema for Democrats: defunding Planned Parenthood and preventing the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Once again, conservative ideologues are holding the federal government hostage to pass their political agenda which they cannot accomplish otherwise.
If the federal government partially shuts down, it will be because of political extremism on the right. The shutdown is a public relations stunt engineered once before under Newt Gingrich which cost the public over $800 million in lost productivity, for 800,000 furloughed federal government employees. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll says 56% of self-identified Repugnants want the rerun of this stupid confrontation. 66% self-identified Independents want a compromise. This is no way to run a country.