I have tried not to be partisan to the extreme since I started this Blog over a year ago. More than once I have criticized Democrats in general and President Obama in particular (review the Archives if you don’t believe me). But this extortion by House Republicans is just too much. Until they open our government and raise the debt limit, they deserve nothing but contempt.
This is their shutdown, no one else. The blame is not on President Obama or Harry Reid. It is squarely on the shoulders of John Boehner. If you think otherwise, you are simply misinformed because you listen to “Fix News and others like them, or you just don’t care about the truth.
Honest politicians don’t use continuing resolutions to fund the government or raising the debt limit so we pay the bills we have already incurred as a way to change existing laws. All laws are subject to change or replacement, but NOT this way. Period!
We should also remember that the shutdown is a continuation of what Republicans have been doing since they gained control of the House. The list of bills they once supported but now reject – included healthcare reform – is very long. And the reason is no secret. Whatever this president proposes, Republicans oppose. He could propose that John McCain serve out the remainder of his presidency and Republicans would oppose it because Obama proposed it. That’s how irrational and unreasonable they are.
The President is right about this. Open the government and raise the debt ceiling and then negotiations can begin. He will probably give away more than I want him to, and I will openly criticize him when he does, as I have done in the past. But on this one he is exactly right. For the sake of the country’s future he must not waver.
