re: #203 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Ya know, part of me is looking forward to this whole mess. I mean the republicans and their pay masters made this bed when they started the astro turf groups that comprise the tea party and stoked these nutjobs into a frothing frenzy. If the stock market tanks as a result of the gov’t shutting down they only have themselves to blame and it’d be about time that they got burned by the fire they started.

On the other hand I want government to function. I don’t agree with everything it does but it should function and I feel bad for the “collateral damage” a shutdown will incur.

We’ve already suffered severe damage to our elected government’s ability to function. A several-day shutdown will not make Congress function any less effectively, and it will probably help rip off the infected bandaid. It may also wake people the fuck up as to the utter intellectual bankruptcy of the Republican party. This may be worth the considerable economic and human suffering of a short government shutdown.

And god damn all of the elected officials who have put us in the position of choosing between those two, and damn all of the idiots who voted for them. We all knew this was coming.