I can't help but notice.... the GOP is the party that has put forth a budget... yet somehow to you it is they that are responsible for the shut down?
whether you LIKE their budget proposal or not is a different topic. The fact of the matter is, Obama has done little and the Dems in Congress have not put forth a viable budget. Instead they just want to out spend revenue by $1.7 Trillion.
Tell us Epic.... WHY can't they go back to the budget levels of 2006? Overall inflation hasn't increased much (though items like food, energy, clothing are spiking now). Why do they think we need to keep adding insane levels of debt onto the backs of future generations?
We can't keep pushing the problems into the future just because the solutions involve decisions we may not like.
"The current political climate mirrors that of the 1995 budget crisis and subsequent government shutdown, when President Bill Clinton faced off against the Republican Revolution led by Newt Gingrich. Like Boehner, Gingrich refused to compromise, and his inability to compromise turned his greatest strength, tenacity, into a weakness.
Gingrich looked like a man who put politics ahead of the nation’s interest, and, even more damaging, like a brat, especially when he famously griped that the shutdown came after Clinton sat him at the back of Air Force One. Boehner’s well on his way to following in the former speaker’s footsteps.
Boehner enraged federal workers and their allies this week by replying “So be it,” when asked about whether his party’s plans will cost public employees their jobs. Obviously aware that he faced a public relations nightmare, Boehner attempted to walk back that statement yesterday.
“Listen, I don’t want anyone to lose their job, whether they’re a federal employee or not,” explained Boehner, before going on to say that he remains prepared to make “tough choices,” because, “Come on, we’re broke.” Boehner’s going to have to do better than that.
If Boehner wants to come out of a potential shutdown unscathed, the Speaker will have to take an actual leadership role, proving he wants to prevent a shutdown while also articulating why a shutdown would be bad. The 1995 shutdown, a six-day ordeal, cost an estimated $700-800 million. That’s about $133 million dollars in squandered money every day.
Certainly Boehner doesn’t want to look like the impetus behind such a waste, particularly since his party’s trying to look tough on spending. And it wouldn’t hurt if the increasingly prickly politico at least feigned contrition over the lamentable state of our country’s economic affairs."
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/54647/the-real-loser-in-government-shutdown-john-boehner/
