You couldn't make it up...

[elisi]

“We’re not going to be disrespected,” conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., added. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

(Source.)

Somehow, I'm reminded of Palin as President...

ETA: Ooooh, Obama picked up on that quote. And he's starting to get seriously frustrated:

Video here. (Won't let me embed.)

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

OMG!! I can't even with this!!

THANK YOU OBAMA.

*Curses fluently*

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

*giggling*
Bowing to Obama right there. OMFG, he's at the end of his patience apparently. That shit is not funny, though -_- god. Seriously. Just—seriously.

[elisi]

They're behaving like 12 year olds - let's hope he keeps calling them on it, so everyone knows who's to blame.

[elisi]

I can't even comprehend their level of arrogance. They want respect? They should stop disrespecting the American people.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I just find it all so surreal. Holding a whole country hostage like this… In a way it's like adding the insult to the injury, no more, no less.

[elisi]

I'm not *surprised* (these people have zero grip on reality), I'm just waiting for SOMEONE to wake up...

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Indeed… Call me naive, I would never have believed such a thing to be actually possible. It's just bewildering.

[elisi]

These were the people who thought Sarah Palin was a good choice for vice president. In some ways it's good to see it all reaching it's natural conclusion.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Ha… good point =P Someone give me Harriet Jones. (I was going to say Harold Saxon, but those were words of the desperate.)

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

It really does speak to the attitudes involved here. Gah! Makes me want to hit my head against the wall, you know? My main comfort is that they really aren't coming across well at all to the vast majority of the populace.

[elisi]

Well, Harold Saxon was SMART and knew what he wanted. Give me straight-up evil any day. ;)

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

*thumbs up* :D

[elisi]

Goodness knows our politicians aren't great, but they don't sink to these depths. (Nor do they rise to Obama's heights. We have mediocrity across the board...)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

And to think some people accused The West Wing of being unrealistic and unfair in its portrayal of republican hardliners... This is just so completely bizarre.

[elisi]

It'd be funny if it wasn't true...

[elisi]

*g*

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

It's like they totally sat out the day the whole concept of "Democracy" was explained.

The really frustrating things are:

1) THEY are still getting paid!
2) They have a great health insurance plan.

It just makes me so angry. If people don't like a law they should vote to repeal it/ vote for people who promise to repeal it. But they know perfectly well that they'd never win that one, so they hold the rest of us hostage. Gah!!

[elisi]

You'll like this....

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Seriously. And these are adults we're talking about - highly paid adults at that. Acting like three-year-olds who promise to hold their breath until they turn blue if mom won't buy them ice cream.

[elisi]

Yeah... Sarah Palin all the way.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, perfect!!

one of my aunts posted this


to facebook. It really captures my feelings too!

[elisi]

Thought you'd like it! :)

And oh, that's too spot-on. Thank you for sharing.

[eaweek.livejournal.com]

You can't make this stuff up.

It's a weenie-wagging contest on an epic scale, with the entire country held hostage.

But bear in mind, people actually VOTED for some of the ass-clowns who are refusing to compromise. And this is **after** the Affordable Health Care act was passed, Obama was re-elected, AND the Supreme Court upheld the health care law!! I think "the people" have spoken, but the hard-liners still refuse to budge.

Frankly, I think anyone who votes to re-elect any of those idiots needs to have their head examined. I honestly don't think any of this Tea Party nonsense would have happened if the country hadn't elected a black Democrat for president in 2008. The Republicans hated Bill Clinton, but even that was sunshine and lollipops compared to their loathing of Obama. They would rather tear the country down to rubble than let a black man succeed as president.

The Tea Party faction will bleat on and on about the national debt, but who got the country into that mess in the first place? Oh, yeah--their boy George W Bush, who 1) cut taxes to the wealthy and corporations, and 2) got the country into two endless, futile, pointless WARS, which have cost close to four TRILLION dollars!

Something tells me that when Obama is off the political stage, the Tea Party will quietly dissolve. Unfortunately, I think the country will be irreparably damaged by then. : (

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

My Aunt's comment when someone gave her a hard time about posting it (Pointing out that she lives in California)

Yes I do live in the great state of California, which still happens to be part of the great Nation of the United States, I am just so disappointed in both of them right now

FYI she lives right outside the entrance to Yosemite National Park. Which is also closed during the shutdown.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

The Republicans hated Bill Clinton, but even that was sunshine and lollipops compared to their loathing of Obama. They would rather tear the country down to rubble than let a black man succeed as president.

I'm certainly no fan of the Tea Party, but not sure I can agree there. Clinton was impeached. It went on for months!

[elisi]

From The Dish, this extract from a letter by Abraham Lincoln:

What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices. In this they are either attempting to play upon us, or they are in dead earnest. Either way, if we surrender, it is the end of us, and of the government. They will repeat the experiment upon us ad libitum.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

It's like they keep looking for new ways to disgrace themselves in public.

At the same time, though, I would almost feel bad for them if they weren't, you know, holding the US government's purse-strings (and therefore its creditworthiness, and therefore the entire world's economy) hostage over a partisan squabble. Most of their state governments rigged the drawing of electoral districts so certain seats are guaranteed to go Republican; if the general election is a foregone conclusion, they can't be accountable to the general public even if they want to, they have to worry about getting deposed by a well-bankrolled Tea Party loony in the primary. If it sounds like they think they have nothing to fear or to lose by being horrible little shits and alienating most of the public, or like they have more to gain from grandstanding and brinksmanship than from any of the things they're actually asking for, or like anything the Obama administration says or does is irrelevant to them... it's because it's literally true as far as their chances of re-election are concerned. I just can't feel too sorry for them when there's a whole lot more at stake than their chances of re-election, and when that's only true because they keep raising the stakes. Even if they're the byproduct of bad election laws, they're still a disgusting pack of idiots.

[masakochan.livejournal.com]

There are 12-year olds more mature than these people. They're more like 5-year olds that have just learned how to say "I don't wanna!"

[hobbituk.livejournal.com]

I just can't get past the message that is being sent to the rest of the world. Just why do they think the rest of us should listen when they try to tell us what to do?

Geez.

[elisi]

This is why I love the Dish. It has posts on EVERYTHING:

Is The Shutdown Racist?

(Basically - this isn't impeachment, it's blackmail.)

[elisi]

True. My 12 year old is more mature.

[lyricwrites.livejournal.com]

Hell, my kiddos are more mature. At seven and a half months.

[adoxerella.livejournal.com]

//Facepalms into infinity...
That's my congressman. Thank God I didn't vote for him.

[elisi]

Wow. The American crazy is something else. (And poor you.)

[elisi]

Did you watch tonight's HIGNFY? They were rather spot-on...

[elisi]

America is crazy. I mean... I'm still not sure I understand how it all functions. Or doesn't, at the moment. Mostly I'm just weirded out by all the OTT right-wing stuff. I mean - the Democrats are to the right of our Tories. So the way they view the world is totally alien to me, sort of like this.

(Sorry if this is meandering, am too tired...)