There are another couple of really dumb parts to this shutdown too. You might think that the shutdown would spill over to ObamaCare – as this can probably be counted as a non-essential government activity as it’s only in its infancy – and that it might stop it starting. But no, ObamaCare can’t be touched as the funding is already in place and you can’t shut it down, so if you were thinking the Tea Party were doing this to shut down the start of ObamaCare then you would be completely wrong.
That’s another point about the ‘shutdown’ – it’s not really a shutdown. All essential government activities – such as air traffic control, the military (obviously), the postal service and ObamaCare (ha) won’t shut down – and it’s only non-essential government funded endeavours – like NASA, national parks and gun permits not being issued (good thing) that will be curtailed. Of course, it kinda sucks you won’t be able to hang out at the park and all those NASA geeks won’t be able to draw dicks on Mars anymore, but it’s not exactly the complete game changer that it’s made out to be. It will probably be over fairly quickly too when these stupid hardliners realise that they aren’t achieving anything by being so difficult, except pissing the whole country off.
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What’s more, on top of this the whole Republican Party is going to be blamed for shutting down the government when they realise it isn’t going to do their public image any good so they’re just as pissed off at these Tea Party morons as everyone else. In addition to this, the only reason that these Tea Party idiots could even win seats is part of a massive Republican plan to win state legislatures, and then use this power to redraw maps within the state to create reliable conservative seats.
This worked great to begin with as it meant that the Republicans didn’t really have to worry about Democrats stealing their seats, but then they started having to worry about even more conservative candidates emerging to challenge them. And then ultimately beat them. This is how the Tea Party managed to get all those seats in the House of Representatives and is essentially another factor as to why the government is in the middle of a shutdown right now. Smart idea guys. Real smart.
In essence, the American system of politics may have been designed to be fair and encourage debate and making the best decision possible, but there’s a new debate now and that’s whether or not this model is still applicable in the modern fast paced world of politics where decisions need to be made quickly and cogently. Or at least once they’ve finally been made they need to actually be carried out. Of course, even if it was decided that there was a need for its reform, the ObamaCare example pretty much guarantees that it won’t be happening anytime soon and the most powerful country in the world will continue to not get anything done, amongst all its other problems.
In the meantime, everyone will just sit around and wait for these Tea Party pricks to cave. I’ll give them until Friday at the latest, if it hasn’t already happened by the time this is published.
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