How many felt a true sense of relief at the avoidance of a government shutdown?

[Stinky The Clown]

I didn't.

I thought the whole thing was all just so much bullshit. Scripted, preordained bullshit. Countdown clocks and special teevee graphics. A few hundred powerful elite in a very fancy clubhouse acting as if they fucking cared about the country.

I am so beyond cynical and tired of this crap.




edit to add the "d" in "avoidance" in the title

[Moondog]

1. K & R

[xchrom]

2. i was struck by the banality of it. nt

[dana_b]

3. I'm very glad that people will be able to work

and that others will still be receiving checks, assistance, etc. however I, like you, also think the whole political b.s. facade was scripted. It reminded me of TARP, the tax cuts for the wealthy and all the other crap in which those who need something are held as hostages. "Give us $33 billion or the old people,federal workers and disabled get it!" It's evil.

[Enrique]

4. there was a lot of bullshit

my favortite was one that NPR was repeating a lot, about "faith in government" being in danger. :eyes:

that said, I did believe that a shutdown would probably be bad for the economy, although would it be worse than these huge spending cuts? Who knows...

[hedgehog]

5. I almost wish there had been a shutdown. It would have been a

lot of pain, but blamed on the Republicans. I'm afraid we're in for a lot of pain now because of the cuts, especially the stimulus. This pain will be blamed on Obama.

[Carni]

6. Badly staged BULLSHIT to boot!

I'm with you, I have HAD IT with this!

[Guilded Lilly]

7. No one should be happy, assured...

confident or the least bit validated to put a check mark in the win column for their *party*. This is no way to run our country.

No accountabi­lity, only blame, no real solutions that come from a genuine desire to help the citizens of our country, only compromise­s composed of political games by so-called adults who are mostly clueless, mean and self serving to the core. Those of us with no *elected powers* have lost in every single Congressio­nal Hill battle.
We are the battle fodder, here.

No real leadership­.
Just word games.

It's disgusting­.

[CrispyQ]

27. Well said.

I'm so disgusted I can barely put my thoughts into words. Just :grr: :grr: :grr:

[leftstreet]

28. +1

Very well said

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[newspeak]

20. yesterday, my daughter called she was upset

see, my SIL is in the military--he has served in Iraq and now Afghanistan-his pay is crucial. I told her if she is financially in trouble if they shut down the government her dad and I would help. I also told her, however, that too much caving was going eventually hurt the majority in this country and that included her and her family.

[HopeHoops]

9. *Yawn*

The GOP crybabies got royally fucked when Newt shut it down in the 90's. They can get royally fucked again as far as I'm concerned.

[Brickbat]

10. I did, because Mr. Brickbat's union is currently working with federal mediators to get a contract

settled. If the government had shut down, the discussions would have stopped, and an approaching merger could have made mediation unnecessary.

[Davis_X_Machina]

11. I did.

I’ve got a civilian DoD employee for a brother, my two kids are in college with outstanding federal financial aid and work-study issues, and exams coming up they can’t take if their accounts aren’t current, a wife flying overseas on business who’s going to have to at a minimum clear customs on re-entry, and perhaps deal with a consulate while abroad, and a Korean-War vet father whose health care is pretty much all VA at this point…so yeah, I’m being selfish and I don't understand politics.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. It was politics reduced to it's natural state. Posturing and farce.

[Turbineguy]

13. I did. but on the other hand

it would have been nice to see just how many teabaggers would have been harmed by a shutdown. As it is, I'm sure we'll have a few more opportunities.

The irony of an expensive government is that the republicans make it so expensive.

[Thunderstruck]

14. I said it was political theater and I knew there would be no shutdown.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x828013

[avaistheone1]

16. Yup and it wasn't even good political theater.

[bahrbearian]

15. No relief here,, same shit different day,,,what happens next week?

[Martin Eden]

17. "Scripted, preordained bullshit."

Whether or not that is true goes a long way in determining whether our repesentative democracy is merely corrupt & dysfuncyional, or a facade to perpetuate the illusion of democracy.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. It is the latter

Sadly, that's where all the evidence points

[freshwest]

18. It is exactly what I felt. Bad theatre, but it got everyone jumping. Oh, there were nuances here and

There, and some truly noble intentions on the Democratic side.

Not from the GOP, though. They accomplished all their goals, except for a few social hot button items that they wave the red flag at liberals at every opportunity to give them the appearance of being religious. But it was never more than an appearance.

They don't give a crap about those dog whistles, it's always about the money, which they stole again and will keep stealing until money is meaningless. They will never stop their war on Americans until they're reduced them to abject poverty and made into more malleable clay than they presently are proving to be.

That was a particularly bad piece of drama from me, too.

:rofl:

[Drale]

19. NO because this bullshit it just gona restart

next week, when the tea baggers get their panties in a bunch about something else, when they have to try and pass a full budget.

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[bluestate10]

25. I agree. The sooner we have a fight, the better. nt

[bluestate10]

22. I did not care one way or the other. Other than roads and mail, I

depend minimally on government services. A shutdown would have put the reality of their votes squarely into the face of teabagging elders, which for me, would have been a good outcome. As things are the country continues to muddle along. Republicans want a fight, I say give the bastards one, for every budget cut republicans want, democrats must take back a corporate or special interest tax break. The nations treasury is not being drained by the mythical cadillac welfare queen, but is is REALLY being drained by rich farmers getting million dollar farm subsidies, oil companies getting multi-billion dollar depletion allowance tax breaks for a resource that they are pricing through the roof, and teabagging elders that get SS and spend their waking hours trying to screw poor people.

[Horse with no Name]

23. Not at all. They are just going to keep going to the trough

Makes the masses think they are working...hard.

[AlabamaLibrul]

24. I did, because I know somebody who has an EEOC claim going

and I don't want it to be held up any longer for her

[StarburstClock]

29. It was all "scripted, preordained"

There are a lot of people who just follow the script though.

[bvar22]

30. I felt as much relief as the Robet E Lee did...

...when he conceded the field at Gettysburg.
(Yes. I am watching the Ken Burns PBS Civil War Series.)



I'm almost ready to just Let Go, Take the Blue Pill, and join the Idiot Parade.




War is Peace

Tax Cuts for the RICH create JOBS

Free Trade is GOOD for the American Working Class

He didn't Run on a Public Option

We avoided a depression by giving Hundreds of Billions to the Big Banks

Main Street CAN compete with 3rd World Slave labor

Nuclear Energy IS safe

"Clean Coal" exists

We are experiencing "Shared Sacrifice"

FDR/LBJ were Fringe Lunatics who needed to be Drug Tested

The Bombs being dropped in Libya are "Humanitarian"

Ignorance is Freedom

:party:

[bvar22]

32. I need to ammend the above post.

The Confederacy actually FOUGHT & LOST at Gettysburg.
You can't really LOSE if you never FIGHT.



Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
Lofty Rhetoric, Broken Promises, and Whiny Excuses mean NOTHING now.
"By their WORKS you will know them,"
and by their WORKS they will be judged.

[Dappleganger]

31. Neither did I, because the cost of giving in is too great.

[TheKentuckian]

33. What relief can one get in emboldening a bully that has avarice without end?

They will come for a fresh infusion of lunch money, allowance, and hide and will slowly get it.

Giving in on the tax cuts has set a trajectory that will mean more and more pounds of flesh.

What will be demanded for the debt ceiling? We aren't about to risk that hostage so we'll give big time and the red meat base of the pukes will gnash their teeth even while picking our skin out of them. Just like the bankers crying about the "anti-business environment" and arduous taxes while counting record profits powered by corporate communism and paying nothing into the commons.

[Stinky The Clown]

34. We agree

:thumbsup:

[xiamiam]

35. drama drama drama..those were my feelings..ho hum..who cares..nt

[barbtries]

36. me too

it hurts to be cynical. but here we are. it's all bullshit.