She's had herself quite the stem winder. While she calms down, takes a breath, and dispels her vapors, I think the answer to her objections is straightforward:
An Open Reply from Jim Henderson
Really? Anarchist tirades? There are tirades going on, but they aren’t from your boogey men “Extremist Republicans.” They are from your Democratic Party. Examples:
Pres. Obama: “Speaker John Boehner won’t even let the bill get a yes-or-no vote because he doesn’t want to anger the extremists in his party.”
Pres. Obama: “One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government shut down major parts of the government, all because they didn't like one law.”
Pres. Obama: “One party to this conversation says that the only way that they come to the table is if they get 100 percent of what they want, and if they don't, they threaten to burn down the house.”
Pres. Obama: Republicans are“reckless and irresponsible”
Sen. Reid: Republicans are “anarchists”
Rep. Pelosi: Republicans are “legislative arsonists.”
Sen. Mikulski vulgarly suggests that Ted Cruz appeases people who bounce their testicles in others' mouths while they are drunk or sleeping: “The reason Ted Cruz ... asked for a delay was so that he could have a vote during today where ... the teabaggers in his tea party were going to watch.”
Dan Pfeiffer has Republicans as suicide bombers, “What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest. We’re not going to do that.”
Dear Elizabeth,
Your reliance on name calling is a strategy of minimization, rather than civil and candid conversation. Why would anyone think you are a serious counterpart in the Congress?
Please be honest. Obama ordered the Executive Branch to make sequestration as painful as possible. At DHS and TSA, equated with furloughing TSA screeners. Furloughing wasn't required by the sequestration; it was just preferred BY OBAMA and YOUR PARTY.
You provide no basis on which to conclude that the problems are imaginary. I suppose if you ignore the THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of employees pushed off of employer plans and pushed into part time status ALL THE CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE then things known factually to be so really are just imaginary boogeymen.
“Fair and transparent?” Really? Did you want to go here during a shutdown that is a sequal to the Affordable Care Act?
Among the disproportionalities of this Administration’s effectuation of the Act is the illegal one year suspension of the employer mandate, and the missing of 17 statutory deadlines for administrative actions under the Act, the granting of waivers and dispensations to corporations, to unions, to the President and his officers, to the Courts, to the Congress.
Your leap in logic, and your ahistorical assertion astound. Power grids were not, for the most part, built by the FEDERAL government. Instead power grids arose as a patchwork embodying a variety of private, public, partnered, and joint ventures. The national railway system, a marvel in its time was certainly not a product of government production. Schools were never the product of FEDERAL government.
These facetious points do not JUSTIFY government. They do explain it. Simple civil liability would as easily train industry (and, in fact, has trained industry) in the importance of safety, efficacy, design adequacy and the like. Government’s role as a pre-screener of invention and design is certainly DOABLE, but not INDISPENSABLE.
Elizabeth, you know the Democratic Party’s mantra, when it comes to abortion is, “I got mine, now you get yours.” There is no single more selfish act of an individual than to kill another human being so to be able to live a lifestyle otherwise frustrated by the threatened life.
I think Bill Clinton would prefer that you had left “toxic mortgages” out of this discussion. After all, it was his administration and House and Senate Democrats that pushed for the risky LIBOR mortgage structures designed to tease the very edges of the economic community into home ownership.
Your understanding of our History is poor, or poorly expressed. That government governs best which governs least is not a Tea Party mantra, but a Founders’ mantra.
