Shutting Down the Government

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http://mydd.com/2010/3/1/shutting-down-the-government

Shutting Down the Government

by Jonathan Singer, Mon Mar 01, 2010 at 02:43:24 PM EST


The Republicans don't seem to have learned the lessons from the 1995-1996 budget showdown, after which they were punished for having forced the closure of the federal government.

Two thousand federal transportation workers will be furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.

Federal reimbursements to states for highway programs will also be halted, the Transportation Department said in a statement late Sunday. The reimbursements amount to about $190 million a day, according to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

The furloughs and freeze on payments were the result of a decision last week by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning to block passage of legislation that would have extended federal highway and transit programs, the department said. Those programs expired at midnight Sunday.

The extension of transportation programs was part of a larger package of government programs that also expired Sunday, including unemployment benefits for about 400,000 Americans.

The current shutdown, caused by a Republican filibuster, is not on the same scale as the closure nearly 15 years ago -- but it is no less as risky a proposition for the GOP. While the Senate Republicans have blown through the filibuster record during this session, trying to thwart any sense of majority rule in the chamber, their obstructionism has not yet had much of a face to the American people. Yes, healthcare reform has been stalled. But for most Americans, the gridlock in Washington seems to be somewhat of a normal occurrence.

Yet this shutdown changes the game. Republican filibusters now have a face: 2,000 workers furloughed from their jobs, and what's more much-needed transportation construction projects put on hold.

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1. "let them eat sh--t!" says marie antoinette Bunning

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2. wedgy warpigs

Republicans want to take your children from you so they can brainwash them into their satanic society by making you unable to care for them. They NEED slaves and they NEED fear in order to accomplish their EVIL missions. FEAR NOT, because GOD will give you a far greater reward than any SATANIST can even FALSELY promise you. The republicans have nothing but LIES and ARE nothing but PIGS. They seek war while you seek peace. They seek idiocy while you possess intelligence. They seek eternal damnation not only for themselves but for you also because they are JEALOUS of your intelligence, AFRAID of your courage and downright PISSED OFF that they could not deceive you into entering into the depths of depravity that they themselves suffer in.

Misery loves company and they are a MISERABLE herd of cattle soon to be B-B-Q'd beyond all recognition in the fires of Hell. They know their time is short and they are in a FRENZIED PANIC because they can feel the heat of their VOLUNTARY DAMNATION growing ever stronger within them. It is driving them totally out of their minds and we need to be prepared for a mass hysteria the likes of which this world has NEVER seen. Do not let their fear be contagious unto you. Tell them to GO TO HELL and SEND THEM THERE FOR FREE come the next election.

Because they themselves are such CHEAP IMITATIONS of MAN they'll jump at the chance to receive ANYTHING for nothing, no matter WHAT it is. I'm betting that if you turn your back on them they'll STEAL their ticket STRAIGHT TO HELL just because you gave them the opportunity to do so. Besides that, even if it's FREE they'll think they're paying too much and getting ripped off due to their PARANOID DELUSIONS. We've already seen what comes from their w brand PARANOID DELUSIONS as we are still digging ourselves out of the grave that they are STILL trying to bury us alive in.

Give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves..., if they don't break their own necks while trying to kiss their own asses first.