Time to shutdown the Federal Government

Time to shutdown the Federal Government
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/opinion/collins-politics-of-a-screeching-halt.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

"The fight is over whether the fortunes of the party would be improved if people connected it to the sudden closing of the national parks and the local passport office. "We've been down that road," said Senator Saxby Chambliss on MSNBC. "We shut down the government ...and we got our butts kicked over shutting down the government." Chambliss is 69 and about to retire. Nobody is ever going to invite him to give the keynote address at the Iowa Republican Party summer picnic."

It is different now. B. Obama has shown his destain for the law and as such has reviled himself as a threat to democracy. Continued lawlessness by multiple executive branches, make this a threat that can't be dealt with half measures. Defunding the government would create chaos but Obama can be counted on to retaliate in a most clumsy and transparent way possible.

We can survive a national park and passport office shutdown and what ever else Obama will throw at us. If we are clear about our reasons even the semi literate (i.e. Democrats), will support the effort. If the shutdown is long enough, the dependents of the Federal Government will be hurt more than the tax paying class.


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