How The World Sees The Government Shutdown

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They think Republicans are f'ng idiots.  

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We agree

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First they didn't win the election they were told they would win,

then they found out shutting down the government would not shut down the ACA.

How dumb can you be, they need to stop listening to the drug ravaged Pill Popper and his Friends at Fox.

The closed-door Wednesday meetings hosted by the Senate’s conservative Steering Committee are supposed to be private, so senators interviewed for this article asked not to be named.

“It seems that there is nothing the media likes to cover more than disagreements among Republicans, and apparently some senators are content to fuel those stories with anonymous quotes,” Cruz told POLITICO.

“Regardless, my focus — and, I would hope, the focus of the rest of the conference — is on stopping Harry Reid’s shutdown, ensuring that vital government priorities are funded, and preventing the enormous harms that Obamacare is inflicting on millions of Americans.”

But as the government shutdown heads into day three, a number of Republican senators privately blame the Texas freshman for contributing to the mess their party finds itself in. And now that they’re in it, they say it’s up to Cruz to help find a solution. It was very evident to everyone in the room that Cruz doesn’t have a strategy – he never had a strategy, and could never answer a question about what the end-game was,” said one senator who attended the meeting.“I just wish the 35 House members that have bought the snake oil that was sold could witness what was witnessed today at lunch.”

At the Wednesday lunch, Cruz was asked what he would have done had GOP senators united to filibuster the House bill.

“He kept trying to change the subject because he never could answer the question,” the senator said. “It’s pretty evident it’s never been about a strategy – it’s been about him. That’s unfortunate. I think he’s done our country a major disservice. I think he’s done Republicans a major disservice.”

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Many Senate Republicans publicly and privately scoffed at the Cruz tactics, arguing that he was making a false and politically damaging promise that he could use the funding bill to gut Obamacare — since the law moved forward anyway on Tuesday despite the government shutdown. They argued President Barack Obama would never agree to gut his signature law. And they took great exception by Cruz and his allies in outside groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund to portray them as weak on Obamcare even though the party has furiously battled the law since the beginning of the president’s term in office.

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ted cruz is all about ted cruz...what he has been doing id trying to run ahead of the parade and garner the attention of the conservative base to be their new standard bearer..ala michelle bachman's 'tip of the spear'......instead he proved himself a total dumbass before a national audience......(wendy davis was the inspiration for his filibuster since she gained a national reputation thru her filibuster against the new texas antiabortion statutes and for the rights of women. but then she had a valid reason and was actually attempting to quash the legislation. cruz is just being an attention whore.lookatme lookatme lookatme)

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It has status and has a name, branding.  

It is what you do when you have the free media and whatever it is that you can do to keep them interested.  Lately, the freak show is Republican, tomorrow, Democrat and then the always reliable celebrates and pop culture types, all want the same thing, face time, comment and media space.  And yes, it more about the person than the organization, welcome to the me and more about me, more than you want and should want to know about you, generation.

We had one version of this generations ago, Joe McCarthy, and that ended badly. and badly not only just for Tail Gunner Joe.  

Today, it isn't about Joe, it is about a whole bunch of Joes who don't have to have a list of communists in the government to get on TV.  Currently, they are tripping over each other, at their peril of going over the edge of the rotunda galleries, during the silly live remotes and interviews by the some what witless cable news channel anchors as to the why, how and whereto of what is all going.

As to the rest of the world, it appears as business as usually, not gangnam style, but Washington.

In Italy at least it set to music, and called opera. 

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At least the stories in opera are honest.  Cruz, Romney, GOP whomever are reduced to pathological liars .

Well, like McCarthy they aren't getting away with it anymore.  Except this time it isn't just McCarthy, the whole party is going down towards being just a bad memory in history.  What's left, the Tea Party?  They need a Lincoln, not a homophobic Bachmann married to a homosexual, a gun-nut who sees demons everywhere Palin, or a short-term memory loser but know-it-all Perry, etc.

"Crazy" doesn't begin to being the Tea Party "brand" label. .

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Jeffrey Goldberg’s column in Bloomberg today clearly stated a question I have had all along when confronting the matter of health care in the U. S. and specifically the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The question was pretty much summed up in the column’s final sentence: “Because, after all, what sort of country is it that wouldn’t want its citizens to have access to health care?”

The column was addressing the subject of this very post, how does the world see the government shutdown.  Not in a very positive light it seems.  The column focused on an interview Goldberg did with Julia Gillard, the former prime minister of Australia.  Gillard pointed out the clear differences between Australian and American attitudes toward government and social policies, and specifically health care.  She and most Australians (as well as I would expect other Western democracies)  wonder simply: “How can it be that the entire government has been shut down simply because the president tried to figure out a way to provide health insurance for all of the country’s citizens?”

Personally, I have about given up trying to answer these questions and look upon the whole situation with dismay and bewilderment. 

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Everybody else except 50% of the country is bewildered too Lou.  

It begs the question, "Who are we?"