The shutdown is too important not to discuss it again…and again…and again.
One thing is clear. The news media is proving to be its usual inept self in this mess. and the public needs to see what they are doing.
The government shutdown is NOT a “standoff.” It’s NOT a “stalemate.” It’s NOT an impasse. It’s NOT a waiting game to see who blinks first.
This shutdown is an unconstitutional power grab by the Republicans who refuse to accept the re-election of Barak Obama and now want to subvert our nation’s democratic process to undo a law he sponsored that was passed by the Congress and determined by the Supreme Court to be constitutional. Let’s be clear. This is a constitutional crisis that will determine the future of our government.
Here’s why I say this. If the Republicans win, then next year they will be able to do the same thing with Medicare or Medicaid or Social Security they are doing with Obamacare. In other words, to force changes they want such as, say, privatizing Social Security, they will be able to shut down the government until they get their way. “We will get what we want one way or another” is now the Tea Party mantra.
This is why any journalist or news reporter who suggests the two sides need to negotiate a compromise is incompetent and should be fired. This is not a crisis that needs a compromise. It needs to be defeated. Anyone who cannot understand the threat to our form of government the Republicans are posing has no business reporting on it.
