Republican Shutdown Open Thread, Day 4
Delaware Dem has been doing a damn fine job with these open threads. Don’t you agree? You must agree or risk me (Jason33) considering you a pinhead. Anyway, today he is busy so you get the second rate version.
So put your Republican government shutdown info in the comments and in the meantime read this about what a f’ing C-word Miley Cyrus is. I mean, I don’t give a shit about her licking a sledgehammer, but beating up on Sinead O’Conner because she was treated for mental illness is a total dick move.
Shutdown stuff:
While the “shooting” was still fresh yesterday, I heard an audio clip of an NIH scientist who happened to be on the hill because he was on furlough. When the reporter finished asking about the breaking events, she asked about how he felt about being furloughed. He said, “I work on interdiction of weapons of mass destruction. You can bet that the people working to build weapons of mass destruction aren’t being furloughed.” Or something to that effect. It was interesting, but lost in the blizzard of breaking news.
Greg Sargent: “Right now, the primary fear among senior Obama administration officials is that John Boehner and the GOP leadership don’t grasp just how damaging Obama believes it would be to the remainder of his tenure — and the office of the presidency itself and the proper balance of power between it and Congress — if he were to concede anything in exchange for GOP support for a debt limit hike.”
Wendy Davis is officially running for Governor in Texas. Woo Hoo!
Please, Democrats, pull out every bit of campaigning competence you have for her.
the idiot named Rand Paul talks GOP strategy into a hot mic.
I can tell you that this expatriate Texan has never seen or heard his fellow Dems down there so pumped about a candidate for governor as they are for Wendy. The women down there on our side are equally enthused for Wendy as I ever saw them for Ann Richards. And, they’re way more exited than they were for either Bill White or Chris Bell. The key will be mobilizing the Hispanic and Black mainstream voters with grassroots turnout work. What will also be necessary is an ethnically representative statewide office slate to run with her and work those constituencies. Wendy alone can’t do it. But a great slate can, including an east Texas Agricultural Commissioner to work that market.
Texas looking blue, this Atheist says Thank Ya’ Jeebus! and can’t wait to see a Dem governor in Texas. And a woman at that, in yo’ face Rick Perry and the assorted A holes that pass for politicians in Texas.
All I see on my local news channels this week is how the shut down is affecting so many government employees. I have always said, that before you are allowed to work for the government, it should be mandatory that you work in the private sector for a certain amount of time. In this way, you are more able to understand how hard it is to run a business profitably, what risk are involved, and the uneasiness of working for a small business, not knowing if they will make payroll at the end of the week. All that is happening right now, is a number of government employees are finding out what it is like to live and work in the private sector on a daily basis. It will do them more good than harm. “walk a mile in another mans shoes”
Great plan. Then you’d get great business minds like George W Bush working in the public sector. Also it makes a hell of a lot of sense to have CDC scientists working at Home Depot for a few years instead of doing what they trained to do.
This is exactly why the Republican Party is no longer the party of business.Like a bad parent giving their child all the ice cream they want until htey die of malnutrition.