Shutdown Rage: George Takei Nails It
How many feel waking up to the news this morning. pic.twitter.com/BTYOOaEWGp
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 1, 2013
How many feel waking up to the news this morning. pic.twitter.com/BTYOOaEWGp
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 1, 2013
He’s right … media event. Don’t pay attention to the hysterical statist press and it becomes a non-event.
Wasn’t it the President who announced “absolutely no negotiations” with elected representatives (but negotiations with Syria and Iran are fine), and the Senate who refuses to vote on funding anything?
U.S. media are more effective propagandists than Pravda ever was. So trivial to get 30-40% the population to believe whatever the state wants even if it is contrary to fact and their own interests.
The Senate has already — repeatedly — passed a clean bill to fund the U.S. government, a bill that WOULD PASS the House if Boehner would allow the vote, but he WILL NOT. (Democrats and moderate Republicans would support such a bill) He is too afraid of the Tea Party wing of his party to allow such a bill to come to a vote.
And the executive branch has tried to shut down open air monuments such as the WW2 memorial and all federal properties even locking out in at least one instance a homeowner on federal land from their own home.
Don’t just blame the House. The Senate and the President also share in this blame.
I’m pretty sure the WW2 memorial wouldn’t have been closed (attempted) if it had been funded. Was it kind of symbolic? Yeah, but I’m sure they do have groundskeepers. Refusing to fund the government was not just symbolic. Anyway good for the vets for “breaking in”.
Wow, so you just repeat an actual literal talking point from Fox News?
In the spirit of that, here’s the Daily Show response: “Doesn’t that imply the House Republicans are more intransigent, more insane, than the mullahs of Iran and the dictator of Syria?”
I see even the NASA websites are down. Except JPL’s which is not being updated.
Would this be happening if the Democrats were in charge of the House? No, it would not be. And the entirely-artificial crices with the debt limit would not be happening, either. We would also not be locking out foreign scientists from NASA meetings for no reason other than where they were born, but that is another thread entirely.
I’m afraid that historians will look back on this time as a case of certain Senators deciding that “playing politics” was more important to them than the welfare of their nation and its citizens. I wonder how these Senators can live with that. Perhaps all nations need to impose an upper and lower age limit on their elected representatives, and require them to pass acceptability reviews like certain other important “industries” do. The whole concept of representation by population seems to have broken down. I think something more than a majority of votes is needed to give any federal politician such a staggering amount of power over his/her citizens. Just my opinion.
Seems legit
He is such a web maestro 🙂
Seems to me like it’s a failure of leadership to have to raise it (not just current Pres, but previous and legislative branch also), but it would be a failure of leadership not to where we are now.