perhaps people will Wake the F up and start turing out to vote in the mid terms.

They tried it and made them look incompetent. You would think they care about appearances. They have Kim the Clerk syndrome. They want to be martyrs not legislators.

Tantrum behavior. So immature.

In dysfunction. They are broken, manipulated, bought off, scared, little, lackeys.

I am even more sick of the fact that so many people keep sending them back to Washington. If that isn't the most depressing thing in the world, I don't know what is.

Being useless drones.

should be one of those GEICO commercials: "If you're a Republican, you try to shut down the government. It's what you do."

Exactly. Great thought. It is what they do. Like a miscoded cancer cell they do the opposite of what they were sent there to do.


Plus they love to interfere in human and civil rights when they claim to want the government out of people's business. They do the opposite of what they slogan about. Just like fair and balanced Faux news.

So 1984 big brother propaganda. Double speak.

If it's one thing about the reactionary GOP is that they're really against everything they say, and really for everything they say they're against. Mind-boggingly Orwellian.

The ones put together by some unknown entity calling itself "Opportunity News Media"? That feature the voice of a well-educated, cool, appealing young woman? That ends with the words "We believe America is full of opportunities... and we call ourselves Republicans"?

The commercials are so incredibly well done I find myself almost wanting--briefly--to be a Republican. Until I regain my senses and realize the commercials are total bullsh*t.

I cannot imagine how many young people--people who are about the age of the person doing the appealing narration--are taken in by those ads. Slickest pieces of propaganda I have seen in a very long time, and I mean that.

"Religion was regarded by the common people as true, by the philosophers as false, and by the rulers as useful."-Seneca

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If they dislike this government that much, why don't they move somewhere that isn't under US hegemony...like Russia!

Then they get elected and prove it.

Ronald Reagan famously said "Government isn't the solution to our problems, government is the problem."

And yet, strangely, he wanted to be in charge of it. Think about that.

Did he even know what he meant? I've been involved in politics since I was a fifteen year old "Kennedy Girl" in a 1960, very Republican town, where my Mom was one of the few active local Democrats. When JFK came through on his "barnstorming" tour, I was recruiting Kennedy girls and was besieged by female classmates who wanted the sash and plastic "straw hat," and, for whatever reason, their Nixon supporter parents indulged most of them. Ted Kennedy, working through the crowd,
shook many of our hands and thanked us. My Mom, onstage with JFK, was totally pissed at all the local republicans who fawned all over him and crowded out the kids who were working for him when he was shaking hands. What a different time in politics! I've been volunteering with state and local campaigns and presidential campaigns for some years now. I'm disappointed many times, but nohow wish to see those who supposedly abhor government take charge with every intention to take advantage and no plan to improve anything.

Isn't this a really new phenomena in governing? The Repuglican version of a brat holding his breath until he gets his way. When did the public begin putting up with this without a whimper? I will never vote for any elected official on my own ballot who would go along with this (but then I haven't ever voted for anyone who'd do so in the first place).

I guess the GOP can’t control the monster they created.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-survey-economists-cite-budget-battle-as-a-top-threat-1439474579

But according to them the left is killing this country.

Glad I can share. With Facebookk, this wicked fancy phone, imgur, and the clipboard, I'm nearly magic.