Official 2013 Budget/Debt Limit/Obamacare Crisis Thread

Lol you are just too much. You think Obama was consulted on this?

 

Its impressive how completely oblivious the tea party supporters are.

 

I think the directive came down for agencies to use whatever power they have to make the shutdown as publicly painful as possible, even if it means expending additional resources to do so, like building Barrycades and throwing people out of their homes.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I don’t remember Bill Clinton forcing B&amp;Bs closed and throwing people out of their homes in 1995.</p>&mdash; John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnEkdahl/status/386698845218172928" data-datetime="2013-10-05T22:46:03+00:00">October 5, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Your video autoplays, even in spoiler. Please fix, sir.

 

Barrycades lol, that's great.

 

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This truly is a new Orwellian level of amazing.

Person A supports a radical political sect that is willing to subvert the normal political process and shutter the government. Person A then bemoans the reaction of the government (including members of both parties) to said shutdown, as opposed to questioning the strategy of the radicals (to say nothing of the actual goals, since the ACA isn't going anywhere unless people do the hard work to do so through proper channels).

The BBS has taught me a lot, but this is new. I guess FOX runs out of spin when they have to blame Obama for orange cones, etc.

If you're so upset, please ask Boneher to take a vote to the floor. This would be over. Why won't he let his chamber simply vote up or down on a clean bill? Why on Earth would he forbid that?

 

Reading Republicans complaining that the government's not doing stuff when they've been talking for years about how the government should not be doing stuff? Quite mind blowing.

Knowing that their constituents would not understand this inherent contradiction in logic? I'm not even going to bother.

 

But... the PARKS! Not the parks! Heheh

 

[using his eddiewinslow voice] I have a cousin who works for the orange cone department, and he said that Obama personally called down there, and was super mad because they hadn't put any orange cones up. He ordered them to go out and put orange cones up at once. [/using the eddiewinslow voice]

The whole idea that people are blaming Obama for things not being open when it was the Republicans who demanded things not be open is quite funny.

Something that is actually worth being upset about regarding the shutdown is this.

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The Republicans did this. It isn't just the IRS and EPA being shutdown because of what the Republicans did.

 

That type of disconnect isn't new. On a host of issues you see many holding inherently contradictory views, such as that Obama is a dictator but also is weak and compromises too much.

 

We kicked 2 grandparents out of their home bc it was on federal land

Elderly Couple Evicted From Home on Federal Land

god bless america! This government is fantastic!

 

damnit someone beat me to it! o well....still, gotta love the feds

 

What does this say overall? That they don't care about the disconnects and that really they are just throwing mud against the wall to see if anything sticks?

 

The media doesnt help in its attempt to be fair.

 

Personally, I'm loving this. It's like hypocrite BINGO.

 

These are the same people that still refuse to admit that W was anything short of spectacular.

 

Pretty amazing, considering the scale of such a conspiracy, that we haven't heard any evidence whatsoever to support it. Don't you think?

 

I laughed. Crazy gonna be grazy.

Fox News mistakenly airs parody of Obama offering to personally fund Muslim museum
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...-personally-fund-muslim-museum-233837793.html

The federal government shut down has caused a headache for tourists wanting to visit national parks and museums. And one of the more high-profile stories this week concerned a group of World War II veterans who had to literally pass government tape to gain access to the World War II Memorial on the National Mall.

In a story about the monument closure, Fox News host Anna Kooiman fell prey to a false report from a parody site, which claimed that President Obama had offered to keep the International Museum of Muslim Cultures open with cash from his own pocket.

“The Republican National Committee is offering to pay for it to keep it open so that the veterans from Honor Flight are going to be able to go and see this because who did it honor? It honored them,” Kooiman said during a report on Friday. “It really doesn't seem fair, especially — and we're going to talk a little bit later in the show too about some things that are continuing to be funded. And President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture out of his own pocket, yet it's the Republican National Committee who's paying for this.”

Kooiman was referencing a quote from the National Report, a parody news site that ran the fake story on Obama. The key quote from the story reads:

“The International Museum of Muslim Cultures is sacred. That is why I have taken it upon myself to use my own personal funds to re-open this historic piece of American culture.”

On one hand, Media Matters points out that the National Report removed a disclaimer it once posted on its site acknowledging that the material contained within was parody.

On the other hand, the National Report currently contains a set of “news” headlines such as “Jesus Christ boycotts Hobby Lobby,” and “Police barge into kindergarten classroom and taser multiple children ‘for the check of it.’”

But in the fast world of TV news, it’s most likely that a producer told Kooiman about the so-called news report, which then made it on air before anyone could confirm the report’s details.

 

They should have voted for Obama -- he keeps a list and supporters have been allowed to stay in their homes.