teddyballgame wrote:Pull quote from the article:
"If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.
You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government.
The ball is in the president's court, no matter whose party it is.
Government shutdowns are the exclusive result of presidential inaction.
... dude...
You realize that if the bill doesn't get to the president, he can't "refuse to accept" the money... right? If the senate had passed it and Obama refused to sign it then it would be Obama's shutdown. But it never got that far. The fact that you keep trying to pin this on Obama sort of highlights how myopic you are on this issue.... A partisan might choose to blame this on Republican congress for passing a bill that they knew would never get through. A partisan might choose to blame this on Democrat Senators for refusing to pass the republican budget (which they wouldn't pass because the republican congress refused to include obamacare).... but it takes a special sort of lack of understanding to blame it on the part of our government it never got to.
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It happens, the presidents own it.. I am good with it.. the essential business of the government is not shutdown.
Money is coming in, the debt is paid first, SS checks and military checks are going out, etc.
As I stated before, Reagan shut it down 8 times and it was on him- I am not blaming the Dems in congress in those situations.
I liked Newt and when the shut down occurred, it was on Clinton- he was sent a bill and he vetoed it.
Not exactly revisionist history here.
first, a shutdown costs money. Everyone furloughed eventually gets paid even if they do no work. A government shutdown is simply increasing expense, which if you're a true conservative you should be against... so don't give me that "hurts no one" bs...
Second, your reagan examples were from him actually vetoing bills. You know... bills that made it to his desk because the senate and house agreed on it.
Third, and hilariously, aren't you the one who said reagan never compromised??? Look through the resolution of those shutdowns and you'll find he frequently got some of what he wanted and gave of some of what he wanted for the shutdown to end.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/25/here-is-every-previous-government-shutdown-why-they-happened-and-how-they-ended/
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Furthermore, I am not sure what a "but red switch" is. but it sounds kinda kinky and it is probably something Bill Clinton had installed while in office.
I am not down for that.
That was supposed to read "big red switch"....
Your lack of kink is your own issue.