General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: The Shutdown Party. A great editorial from USA Today [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,417 posts)So the people of the United States wait again for tea party Republicans to stop playing this maddening and destructive game.
It should stop Monday. The time for bluffing and feinting is over. Republicans whose intransigence has created a do-nothing Congress must at last do something. They must give up their demand and let the government pay its bills.
<snip>
For now, the nation is left with a House majority that wants to make trouble, not fix it. And on the funding issue the diehards want Speaker John Boehner to take the most destructive course: a government shutdown and a slide toward the United States defaulting on its debts, an event that would upset the global economy and could throw the U.S. economy back into recession.
Rep. Richard Hudson, a Republican from North Carolinas 8th District, is one of the members urging the House leadership to drive a hard bargain with the Senate.
I think the question is, do we go with the carrot or the stick strategy? Hudson said. Do we try to do something bad enough to force (Democratic Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid to negotiate with us, or do we do something that we think he cant refuse?
Do something bad enough isnt the language of real leaders, real patriots or even real adults. How about doing something good enough? How about doing whats best for the United States and its people?
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/29/3239189/at-the-brink.html#storylink=cpy
I think they make it pretty clear this is the fault, with Boehner's collusion, of the Tea Party Republicans.