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Hostage takers remain undecided on the best strategy to free the hostages.
They aren't trying to avert a shutdown, they're trying to get the most concessions possible in exchange for averting it. They are the ones causing the shutdown, everyone else is actually trying to keep the government running.
I have a suggestion. How about you try not being a bunch of petulant fuckwits an do your fucking jobs? Fucking traitorous leaches, every single one.
Might as well ask fish to stop swimming. It seems more likely to happen.
Republicans can't govern, exhibit #285781
They (the GOP) see a shutdown as positive to their efforts to push their Libertarian agenda of stifling, defunding, and shrinking the US government, so they have no incentive to pass a spending bill without some really angry and direct political pressure from their own side.
When you run on the platform that "government doesn't work"... You sort of have to not do your job to prove that. And somehow they get reelected as if they're doing a good job.
It's a self fulfilling cycle, and most of it boils down to greed and ignorance.
Suggestion: all house republicans should fuck off and die. Problem solved.
Remember this next time a ballot comes to your mailbox or you see signs to vote. Vote for the people that get shit done instead of sitting on their ass and having their son watch their porn intake.
Shutting down the government right before Christmas, ensuring that millions of civil servants and contractors across the country will miss at least 1 paycheck during the holiday season…bold move, Cotton.
I may have lost track of your ~~ridiculous~~ very sensible government, but didn't they just do the "we're going to shut it all down just you watch we really mean it this time" thing like a month ago?
They voted in a 45 day stopgap, and immediately voted out the speaker.
Whether it's squaring the circle or building perpetual motion machines, Republicans are on it.