Let's End the Lunacy

The government shutdown and the looming debt ceiling showdown both are a farce. Neither one is necessary. But the Tea Party lunatics want it this way. This is what they do. They manufacture one crisis after another, hoping either that the President or the Democrats in Congress will bend, or America will break. Either way, they win.

Well, we will not bend. And we do not have to bend, because I have a solution. I introduced a simple, two-page bill to END THE LUNACY. It does two basic things:

1. Ends the shutdown by funding the government at least at the "sequester" level for the next year. (I hate the sequester cuts. They hurt poor people, sick people, minorities, women and children. But in order to get everyone to agree to this bill, both Democrats and Republicans, we'll need first to restore the budget at some level, and that means the sequester level.)

2. Ends the debt ceiling crisis by suspending the debt ceiling until the end of 2014.

Sign our petition supporting my bill to end the lunacy, at EndTheLunacy.com.

This bill goes by two names: the "Anti-Self-Destruction Act" and the "Fiscal Sanity Act of 2013." Why? Because if we shut down our own government, and destroy our own credit, we're only hurting ourselves. And that's nuts.

We can't let Speaker Boehner and the radical wing of the Republican Party (a/k/a the Tea Party) cut our nose to spite their face. As I said recently on national TV, the Republican Party may be the largest suicide pact in history, but we can't let them take us all with them.

It's time to fight back. Sign our petition at EndTheLunacy.com. I will personally deliver your views to Speaker Boehner's office before the debt ceiling deadline, which is fast approaching.

Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson

P.S. If you care about our future, then share this with your friends via Facebook or Twitter. Not just your Democratic or your Independent friends, but also your Republican friends. There still are some sane Republicans who do not support the Tea Party's blackmail and extortion. Let's all join forces to wipe out the Tea Party's bullying, once and for all.

P.P.S. Senator Ted Cruz has been leading the Tea Party's efforts to shut down our Government and default on our debt. Cruz's wife is Vice President at Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street investment bank with just under $1,000,000,000,000.00 in assets. So no matter what happens to all of us, he'll be just fine, thank you.