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Originally Posted by kane
Have you seen the video of the congressman bashing the park ranger for not letting people into the WW2 memorial in Wash. DC?
With the shutdown the memorial is closed. A park ranger is there to make sure nobody climbs the fences to get in. A congressman comes up to her and tells her that she should be ashamed of herself for not letting people in. She is polite to him, but then someone else in the crowd tells the congressman that she is just doing her job and that this is the fault of the people who can't pass a budget (meaning the senator) suddenly the senator has nothing to say and hauls ass out of there.
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That stunt is part of their game plan.
I really hope there's not an agreement to open the government back up one piece at a time. It should be all or nothing.
The Republicans do have a strategy, but it should be obvious to any half-witted person what they're doing. Firstly, they carry 99% of the blame for shutting down the government, when you consider the FACT they couldn't pass funding until they abolished, or delayed a healthcare law that's already a LAW. It exists now, and that's it.
We've mostly seen it in movies, but in a hostage situation, the captor will release a hostage every few hours to prolong the situation until they can figure out a way to escape. And why not sneak in a photo op now and then? You can try to look like a hero who gives a shit about the people whose lives your playing with(like the park ranger thing). The president should stick to his guns until those stupid fuckers start eating each other in the aisles. Don't give them a damn thing. Let the blame from the public go on them (like it already is doing), and hopefully most of them will get voted out of their seats in 2014.