Not unlike the majority of Americans, I am appalled by what
is going on in Washington, DC, with the government shutdown. If
Congress' constituency back home is appalled by their actions, or in some cases
inactions, then why are we in day ten of a shutdown of our federal
government? The only answer is arrogance. Starting with
the Republicans in the House who started this mess over Obamacare; it was voted
into law; it survived a Supreme Court challenge and the President was
re-elected after it was passed. Get over it! If it's so
bad for the American people, then let it run its course and amend it or repeal
it if and when public opinion turns on it. The insurance side of
Obamacare is off to a horrendous start so, why not sit back and watch? Then
there are the Democrats who have resorted to name calling and getting
themselves arrested in protest of the shutdown and tying up considerable
federal government resources in the process. They have been rendered
useless as they follow their party's leader.........the
President. If you look up the word arrogance, you may actually see a
photo of the President. The intentional hurt that he is putting on
the American people through the government shutdown should warrant impeachment. Withholding
cancer treatments of patients who are in NIH studies; putting people out of
their homes who live on federal land; barricading Memorials that have never
been shutdown in the history of the US; writing tickets to people for running
on federal land; closing businesses privately run but on federal land;
arresting people for attempting to access federal land; withholding death
benefits to families of servicemen killed in action; putting our national
security at risk by furloughing CIA analysts, NSA employees, Homeland Security
and the TSA and the list goes on. This man is the leader of the free
world whose actions are unprecedented. He calls the shutdown
heartbreaking and is asking the American people to submit their stories as to
how they have been hurt by the shutdown, but yet he is the guy who is telling
his staff to make the shutdown hurt as much as it can. He holds a
news conference almost everyday to tell the American people that he won't
negotiate with a gun to his head.
My message to the group is to be leaders and do what you
were elected to do..........represent us. Take a page out of the
Vatican as they select a Pope: bring all of the parties together and lock
yourselves in a room until you reach an agreement. At a time when
our economy is beginning to rebound, now is not the time to once again put our
nation in economic ruin. You all need to stop the political
posturing, scale back on the arrogance and get back to work.
Mr Ronan,
ReplyDeletevery very well put. It's a president-republican-democrat mess.
They all share in the cause of the problem.
Daily reader of your blog.
Thank you
West Virginia
Ditto to Anonymous 1.
ReplyDeletePS: Love the blog...