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Ladies and Gentlemen: I present to you the Ballad of Bad Politics.
2013-09-30, 6:56 PM #1
Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5Sa2Yq-2g
The official anthem of the United Stated Congress, to go with your reading.

Welcome to the "Will the US Govt' shut down? Is the GOP really that stupid?" thread.

Will it? Are they?

Looks like "Yes and yes" as of right now.
NASA is going to be defunded :(
2013-09-30, 6:58 PM #2
Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqx5_w-dnk
Alternative joke song.
2013-09-30, 7:50 PM #3
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2013-09-30, 8:59 PM #4
... government shut down?

Can someone explain to this Eurosassian what's going on?
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2013-09-30, 9:03 PM #5
The US government decided to not fund itself, that's literally it.
So a whole ****load of people are now out of work and loads of agencies are shut down.
NASA :(
2013-09-30, 9:16 PM #6
[url]www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/29/questions-and-answers-about-the-shutdown/2888419/[/url]
2013-09-30, 9:25 PM #7
I'm just not clear on how the democrats were supposed to negotiate their way out of this, since it sounds like the republicans are getting everything they want already...?
2013-09-30, 9:29 PM #8
The GOP is making the bet that shutting the Govt' down over Obamacare will make them look good despite polls showing the opposite.
GG guys, way to lead into midterms with a giant cluster****.
2013-09-30, 10:29 PM #9
I find this form of protest/politics pretty disgusting. Well I find all politics disgusting, but for me to even comment on this you know it's particularly repulsive. Republicans had their chance to stop the ObamaCare bill in 2010. To undercut ObamaCare now by shutting the entire government down is utter crap.
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2013-09-30, 10:30 PM #10
also it doesn't help that practically every republican congressman is only in office because of gerrymandering.
2013-09-30, 11:01 PM #11
lol

let it crumble
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2013-09-30, 11:29 PM #12
Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOxLpmSdTU0

Yeah I put this together, sue me. It's supposed to be half comedy half honesty.
2013-09-30, 11:35 PM #13
Wow. Stuff like this is why I'd never ever want to live in the U.S. Not that they'd let me *cough*
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2013-10-01, 12:06 AM #14
fig. 1
Quote:
Question: When is Hajj 2013?

Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, is one of the greatest religious observances in Islam. What are the dates for Hajj in 2013?

Answer: Hajj is expected to fall between October 13-18, 2013.


fig. 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus

fig. 3
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/09/30/cdc-shutdown-no-in-depth-investigations-of-outbreaks/
2013-10-01, 12:20 AM #15
The kind of people in the Republican party remind me of those that wanted to secede before they ever cow-towed to Washington.

Sometimes I wonder whether or not it would have been better to simply let Confederacy go its own way. Then again, we might still have slavery or perpetual civil war between the North / South due to border disputes, and there's no telling how the world wars would have gone with divided states of America.
2013-10-01, 12:46 AM #16
Both the war and the south's subsequent economic collapse were inevitable, considering that the real main cause of the civil war was the rapidly-expanding productivity gap between northern and southern states, thanks to northern industrialization and the southern reliance upon inefficient farming practices propped up by inexpensive manual labor and an unsustainable hunger for vast amounts of land.

Also, appalacian hill folk are pretty darn republican too, regardless of latitude.
2013-10-01, 3:46 AM #17
Originally posted by Tibby:
The US government decided to not fund itself, that's literally it.
So a whole ****load of people are now out of work and loads of agencies are shut down.
NASA :(


The good news is that the congressmen who voted to shut down the government are still getting paid. That's a relief.
>>untie shoes
2013-10-01, 4:45 AM #18
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2013-10-01, 5:06 AM #19
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2013-10-01, 5:07 AM #20
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2013-10-01, 5:10 AM #21
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2013-10-01, 5:48 AM #22
Originally posted by Antony:
The good news is that the congressmen who voted to shut down the government are still getting paid. That's a relief.


...They still get paid when they choose not to work?
nope.
2013-10-01, 6:08 AM #23
Originally posted by Baconfish:
...They still get paid when they choose not to work?


According to the 27th amendment, any adjustments in their pay would not take effect until the next congressional election. The irony being this includes the shutdown.
2013-10-01, 8:08 AM #24
Well, at least we get the irony of right wing politicians being given handouts.
nope.
2013-10-01, 8:40 AM #25
JFC, this situation is nuts.
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2013-10-01, 9:51 AM #26
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2013-10-01, 10:46 AM #27
From http://www.usa.gov/shutdown.shtml:

Quote:
NASA Mission Control will continue supporting astronauts serving on the Space Station


Good to know.
2013-10-01, 2:52 PM #28
Originally posted by Baconfish:
...They still get paid when they choose not to work?


Congress is still working, or at least doing what passes for working when you're Congress. The shutdown affects about 800,000 people in "non-essential" federal positions and an undetermined number of contractors; employees responsible for core government functions will continue to work through the shutdown, but if this continues for awhile, we may not all get our paychecks on time.

When this strategy doesn't work for the Tea Party, their next ploy will be to insist on a repeal of the Affordable Care Act as a condition of raising the debt limit, because threatening to cause a default on the national debt is exactly how rational legislators are supposed to behave.
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2013-10-01, 4:26 PM #29
It's been said that the GOP is doing things that, if done by an external party, would be acts of war.
And it's true.
2013-10-01, 7:09 PM #30
And they could end the shutdown RIGHT NOW if Boehner would allow the Senate bill to go to the floor for a vote. It has the votes to pass. But because this is somewhat less than total capitulation to the GOP demands, he is not going to do this.

Boehner is a pansy ass who is afraid of losing the Speakership.
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2013-10-01, 7:30 PM #31
I always make sure to say his name in my head with the correct German pronunciation.
2013-10-01, 7:41 PM #32
It makes me sad that people associate that man with my home state.

And he's a Bengals fan for chrissakes. That dude blows. End of story.
>>untie shoes
2013-10-01, 7:48 PM #33
Boehners gonna Boehn.
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2013-10-01, 8:38 PM #34
Hey Jon'c, I've theorized in my usual. "I have spare time and a brain way."
My thought was that US federalism is doomed to collapse because the states are too independent. The original founders knew this, and that's why states rights was such a big deal. Ol' Honest Abe derailed that by going to war instead of allowing the south to secede and become a ****ty banana republic. Thinking on this, is the US doomed to balkanize?
2013-10-01, 10:02 PM #35
What we all have to remember is that this shutdown is not about Republicans vs. Democrats. It's about the insane wing of the Republican party vs. the nominally sane wing of the Republican party.
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2013-10-01, 10:27 PM #36
Originally posted by Tibby:
Thinking on this, is the US doomed to balkanize?
Probably not, since the United States is relatively homogeneous. Even if the United States were dissolved the resulting states wouldn't be hostile.

A peaceful dissolution of an empire usually just means it has become too large, difficult, or expensive to administrate. Um... well, ****.
2013-10-01, 10:28 PM #37
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2013-10-01, 11:26 PM #38
Boehner's not even in the Very Silly Party, he's just the unfortunate son of a ***** who has to appease them for their votes.
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2013-10-02, 9:08 AM #39
Originally posted by Jon`C:
also it doesn't help that practically every republican congressman is only in office because of gerrymandering.


Oh man, this so hard.
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2013-10-02, 12:20 PM #40
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