Who Would You Blame for a Government Shutdown?

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No one won, America lost.
The democrats and republicans are both to blame as well as poor leadership. The demcrats had the power and had a chance to finish the budget last Oct. The republicans haven't done much since they took over. The president stood back and instead of being very public to get this done , he had repeated private meetings to, find out how they were coming. A ture leader would have been very public about something this serious. If this were a company everyone would have been fired to let an important project like this that affects the whole company go 6 months over due. If they were in the military they would be quilty of deraliction of duty and be thrown in the brig. Yet we still sit here and discuss who won. The dumbing down of america is lead by the press.

Terry of CA 5:57PM April 11, 2011

We certainly are working against you liberals.
How does de-funding Planned Parenthood harm economic recovery ?
You want to stop abortion ? Good for you.
Sorry, our National debt is a fact.
Our ransom tonight was $$$ 2 billion in spending cuts for extension, vote in Senate to ___ repeal obamacare, un-fund Planned Parenthood, and largest spending cuts of $$$ 39 billion in our history (more to come) ___.
Hold your breath come 2012 budget. You have seen NOTHING YET. $$$ 4 trillion + over 10 years...
Raising debt ceiling will cost you dearly...

Bill Hedges of MO 12:56AM April 09, 2011

Its true. I'm with you riceroni of LA.
The Tea Party is going down hard. I'm feed up with the Koch's intent is to destroy this country using their pimp teabaggers to try to cease up the engine of this country.
Its pretty clear that the tea scummers are working against the rest of us in this country, trying to kill economic recovery with Planned Parenthood. I know Beohner is under the threat of teabaggers who are promising to go after him in the next primary. After the Koch's bought out the Tea Party gangsters, the rest of us realized the the tea party is an abortion we all should want to stop now.
So now the Tea Party wants to kill Medicare when they send their next ransom note. These bums know they are not persuading anyone with their argument and lies, so they resort to extortion and cowardly blackmail.
These Know-Nothing Tea Baggers are gonna be a short-lived party.

Steve of FL 11:30PM April 08, 2011

How do you explain away Nov. 2, 2010 ? Polls against barry's agenda ?
Where are your links for you numbers ???
Feel good releasing ALL YOUR HATE ???

Bill Hedges of MO 10:36PM April 08, 2011

John of VA _ Your side ignored the polls and passed obamacare, etc., Nov. 2, 2010 you paid for it. 1924 records were broke across the Nation and 1948 record in Congress. What a betting your side took...
You can take un-funding Planned Parenthood as “social views ” if you want. Does that include Cowboy Poet Society funding that Reed says NO WAY are we going to cut. Every thing is essential and will cause death if cut. Oh, you liberals.
“Republican think tanks ” is our voters. Which you all ignored as proved Nov. 2, 2010. Democrats have added riders for Planned Parenthood before. Don’t get high & mighty with me.
All Democrats had to do, was do their JOB. YOU CONTROLLED ALL 3 BRANCHES and could not pass budget, when due, Oct. 2010...

Bill Hedges of MO 8:13PM April 08, 2011

It's the democrats that are going to stop our troops from getting paid not the Republicans. democrats are always against our troops, it's a fact, look it up.

Mr. Voter of CA 5:01PM April 08, 2011

The rabid dob Republicans/tea party are a minority yet they wish to force their social views on all! If not they say, lets burn the house down. Social issues which the rabid dog republicans are unable to pass in the normal legislative process they seek to force on all in the budget bill. It is not about the money--the amounts under discussion are less than 5% of the budget. The Republican think tanks have been pushing the same tired issues for the last 50 years-none of this is new and the ideas are just as bad. What sane legislator would attempt to force their social agenda by denying the men and women of the armed forces the meager salaries we pay them for risking their lives to protect this country or cut off foreign aid that pays for the treatment of at risk children around the world.

John of VA 4:50PM April 08, 2011

If obama had not distanced himself from the debates there just possibly have been an agreement. He only made comments about vetoes and tried to bully the Republicans. It did not work I am glad to say. Maybe the self proclaimed king will have to come off his throne and realize the voters do believe he is king or even a poor leader

vageorge of VA 4:27PM April 08, 2011

The answer is there is no answer. We cannot cut deep enough to reverse eventual bankruptcy and default on our debt. $14 trillion owed will rise past $20 trillion. The interest owed will rise compounded by higher rates till it equals our tax revenues. Perhaps we have 5-10 years before we hit the wall. A smaller government is no answer either. How small? We would have to eliminate social security, medicare, medicaid, reduce the army to one tenth its size, stop funding education. We'd have to raise taxes to very high levels and then we might do it but there would be a legion of the poor and unemployed starving and dying of disease. Illiteracy would rise along with crime. We could not afford the prisons to house them. So we are doomed and this budget crisis is just the beginning.

Jay Freeman of NY 4:13PM April 08, 2011

We need to get some sanity back into our government. Government is way to big and needs to be cut. Those democrats make me so angry with all there posturing and once again blaming Republicans. Obama created this mess and the first thing we need to do is to un-do the damage he's done. Starting with Obamacare has to be repealed. The government has no business between me and my doctor. Then get all these bums off free rides like welfare and unemployment and stop bankrupting the country. Get the illegals out and then stop taxing the job creators out of existence. How can the wealthier people create jobs when they are getting the crap taxed out of them? Business needs to be given tax breaks and shut down the job killing EPA. We can't afford to save every little fishy or tiny lizard in the world. I can't wait until 2012 when we get rid of the rest of the democrats and bring the Constitution back into government for a change.

Mr. Reality of CA 4:12PM April 08, 2011