Shut
Downs Syndrome.
 If
the Taxed Enough Already Party had emerged during the
reign of George Bush, when he was quickly and rather
obviously converting President Clinton's government
surpluses into trillions of dollars of
debt, debt which continues to pile up even today, they
might have some credibility. But they appeared out
of nowhere
in 2009
with their witch doctor posters
and cries of socialism and it was pretty clear what
their major impetus was... fear that a black intellectual
might succeed as President, thus upsetting their racist
apple carts.
So far, he's
done just that. Since 2009 he's passed
Wall Street and credit card reforms, kicked
the banks out of the student loan pipeline, boosted
fuel economy
standards,
passed the Fair Sentencing Act, helped save the
American auto industry, and passed a meaningful health
care act. Let's also add
zero wars and unemployment in the mid-7sies to that
list.
Meanwhile, for the past three-plus years, the Republican-led
House has done nothing but name post offices and vote
almost endlessly, 42 times, in fact, to repeal the
Affordable Care Act. And
apparently with good reason as the ACA looks like it's
going to be a hot ticket. It's already saved seniors
billions
in
drugs costs and resulted in millions of dollars
in refunds to policy holders.
The GOP has been itching to shut down
the government again ever since they gained the House
in
2010, for no other conceivable reason than it would
be fun to aggravate that black
boy
in the
White
House
and
put
a big,
fat, smeary stain on his otherwise exemplary job as
Chief Executive.
The Republican Party and it's little pal, the TEA Party,
is run by monied psychos using racism, gerrymandering,
and
a touch of misogyny to acquire JUST enough of the Congress
to wreck this country out of spite.
The
GOP says it shut down the government over the Affordable
Care Act, but they WROTE the Affordable Care Act. That
leaves only one obvious conclusion.
Addendum:
The image of the Tea Partier, above, is real. That's
Dale
Robertson, owner of teaparty.org in 2009.
The offending word is written on a separate piece of
material
and plastered over an earlier choice of words that
some suspect might have been "slave".
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MSNBC's Krystal Ball offers her keen perspective on
this thing called "Obamacare".
=Lefty=
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