GOP destruction is worse than America realizes

[DonViejo]

Republican tricks are putting our economy and national morale in danger -- but the country is blissfully unaware

BY BRIAN BEUTLER

Please forgive me for what I’m about to do.

A few weeks ago a good friend of mine left Washington, D.C., where he’d been working as a lawyer for a few years, and returned to California, where he now practices. He’s surrounded by highly educated people. And yet he wrote me this week to boast, “You know what’s nice? Nobody is discussing the looming government shutdown. It’s just not on anybody’s radar.”

If he weren’t a news junky, it probably wouldn’t be on his either.

I normally can’t stand it when writers use their conversations with friends, waiters, clipboard people or whomever else to draw sweeping insights about big things like politics, America and the world. So apologies for going a little Tom Friedman on you. At least I didn’t invoke any of my cab drivers, none of whom ever seem to mention the debt limit.

Anyhow I bring this up because I do think it’s illustrative. And I think it speaks to a hidden danger for Republicans, who already know these antics are more politically damaging to them than they are to Democrats. A lot of people around the country, not just in coastal California, have no idea that the GOP is about to harm the economy all over again, like it did in 2011, against its leaders’ better judgment. But they’re about to find out.

full article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/20/americans_wake_up_the_gop_is_back_to_destroying_the_economy/

[phantom power]

1. well you know it's all very boring, and both sides do it, yada yada...

[blkmusclmachine]

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[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Everyone is asleep or at the ball game

[Cal33]

4. Do you really think this shut-down-the-government bill will get past the senate? I don't.

[Kablooie]

6. It's not a bill to shut down the gov.

It's a budget bill to fund the gov.

If a budget bill isn't passed the gov runs out of money and shuts down because they can't pay anyone.

The Repubs threaten not to approve the budget bill unless Obamacare is de-funded.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. I feel this way about DU; many here quick to blame Obama for what Republicans are doing!!