Don't Know What to Call Myself

Anymore, being a Republican means having leaders with no balls.

This is the email I've received from the White House propaganda machine.  Some nasty comments are likely to be inserted.

Hello, everyone --
Try not to notice the majority party of the House of Representatives, all of whom were elected last year and we're going to pretend are out of touch with what America wants. They're pushed up against the wall over there, guarded from having a voice by the media brandishing microphones and laptops. See how they cower, but don't worry, they are not really part of "everyone", they're just here to pay taxes.
    
Late Wednesday night, after a 16-day shutdown, the President signed a bill to reopen the government and pay our country's bills. Today, a government shutdown over delaying or defunding the health care law can no longer hurt our economy. We are no longer facing the threat of default.
Federal income never ended, only your damned ability to spend beyond your means. But you fixed that, didn't you, you irresponsible bastards.

While this bipartisan compromise is the right thing to do for the country, there are no winners when Washington keeps hijacking our economy month after month.
There are plenty of indicators, in final review, that the Republicans were willing to negotiate and the Democrats were not.  The executive from start to finish treated this as a zero sum game.  It is his right, but afterwards you don't rightfully get to claim you played fair.

Nobody wins when hundreds of thousands of people don't know when their next paycheck will come. Nobody wins when millions of veterans and seniors risk losing benefits that they've paid for, earned, and rely on. Nobody wins when businesses stop hiring and our economy grows slower than it could.
Businesses are reluctant to hire already because of the health care legislation taking effect.  The Republicans are trying to avert job stagnation and regression. 

Ultimately, the reason this shutdown ended was simple: Democrats and responsible Republicans got together, recognized that holding the American economy hostage should have no place in our politics, and got the job done. They did what the American people elected them to do.
Do you understand the dig, "responsible Republicans", horseshit, to them the only person that is responsible is the one that blindly follows Democratic dogma. People elected over half of the House of Representatives, have you forgotten that.  This group is legislators is more in tune with local needs than the Senate or the executive, that is by design.  Just because you say you are responsible, it does not mean you are.

Today, every American should have a clear sense of where we stand, and where we're going. Watch the President's statement yesterday about the end of the shutdown, and then pass it along so that other folks see it, too.
Yes, were all fucked.

In his remarks, the President asked Congress to focus on finishing three specific policy priorities in the weeks to come.
Since your already greased up and loose, get ready for some more stuff rammed up your ass.

First, that means passing a budget that invests in the things that will create a better bargain for the middle class -- like educating our children, and improving our infrastructure -- while continuing to cut our deficit in a balanced way.
PASSING A BUDGET you've got to be out of your freaking mind, Harry Reid and the spend-aholics in the Senate have been tabling Republican budget proposals since before Obama took office.  Yesterday I heard Carney talking about how they've cut the deficit by over half, would like to see his measuring stick. 

Second, it means fixing our broken immigration system so everyone plays by the same rules. The Senate has already passed a bill that would continue to strengthen our borders and grow our economy by bringing millions of undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and give them the chance to earn their citizenship by paying a fine and taxes, passing a background check, and going to the back of the line.
Break the law go to jail, or go home.  Executive and Democratic example of leadership from behind, see a problem, paste something pretty over it and call it progress.

And third, it means passing a farm bill that ranching and farming families can rely on: one that protects working families and gives rural communities opportunities to grow.
People that the Democrats go out of their way to isolate.

We'll be back in touch soon with more specific ways that every one of us can support this work. But for now, we should all have the facts on exactly what ending this shutdown means for all of us -- today, and in the weeks to come.
Got paid today, you've already been in touch, with my wallet.

Take a look at the President's remarks from yesterday, and pass them along to the folks you think need to see them:
No, it is all bull shit anyway.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/the-shutdown-is-over

Thanks, and stay tuned.

David Simas
Deputy Senior Advisor
The White House

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