2013-10-02, 02:01 AM
ChaoticCJ Wrote:I think Flonne's point was that the Affordable Care Act should have been supported by the majority of both parties, instead of twisting arms and trading favors. Although even with this partial shutdown, like you said it doesn't make us weaker. If there seriously is an attack, the enemies will see how "weak" we are.
I don't think the shutdown will last very long. Either they will pass small measures to fund each part of the government one by one, or the Republicans will cave. Either way, we still have the debt ceiling coming up and this isn't going to be the last fight over money.
The government shut down is an appropriate measure for gauging the incompetence of the legislative. Last week our executive was pushing for air strikes against Syria, even with a dead panned Syria responding that if they were attacked then they wouldn't be adverse to countering with air strikes of their own. Putin went so far as to write an opinion column in the New York Times. While people are viewing the government shut down as a dire event, it's more appropriate to see the government shut down as a by-product of dysfunctional leadership. Senators i.e. Lindsey Graham and congressmen i.e. Michele Bachmann are media clowns due to their inability to pursue a rational line of discourse. When you have clowns running the show, there isn't anything to be expected but a **** show. The whole context of us seeming 'weak' is the exact same mentality that pundits are saying that our agreement with Syria for them to forfeit their weapons was a bad thing. If there's anything that needs to be taken to rest, it's this whole foreign-policy paradigm that's run by our fragile egos to be the dominant alpha male in the house. The first thing that needs to be addressed is our hypocrisy and lunacy, before we concern ourselves with being #1 in terms of international status.