re: #84 Walter L. Newton

Finally… my passport renewable came in the mail today, took long enough… ok, so now the government can shut down… I got my passport and enough dog food to last me for 3 months… I won’t starve.

(yes, I’m one of those senior citizens who will have to eat dog food if the GOP budget passes)

“In one of the bills before us, 6 million seniors are deprived of meals — homebound seniors are deprived of meals. People ask us to find our common ground, the middle ground. Is middle ground 3 million seniors not receiving meals? I don’t think so. We’ve got to take this conversation from a debate about numbers and dollar figures and finding middle ground there to the higher ground of national values. I don’t think the American people want any one of those 6 million people to lose their meals or the children who are being thrown off of Head Start and the rest of it.”

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), April 4, 2011