Yeah, the name is one I first heard on The Newsroom. The HBO, Aaron Sorkin show. But it perfectly describes the Tea Party faction of the GOP. They have totally hijacked that party with crazy super duper far right thinking that has made government grind to a halt.
Right now, about 15 minutes ago, the midnight deadline for a government shutdown passed. Which is the stupidest thing that could possibly happen. But the Tea Party is not very bright. They think they can force the Affordable Care Act to go away just by throwing a temper tantrum. The thing they don't seem to get is that this idea of healthcare reform had been vetted with the country since it had been signed into law in 2010.
They seem to think that the vote in both houses of congress, the signing by the President, the litigation upheld by the Supreme Court, a Presidential election where the opposing candidate promised multiple times a day to "repeal and replace Obamacare on day one," or the 42 or more votes which failed to get rid of the ACA don't matter. The country voted to re-elect the President by over 5 million votes and an electoral college landslide.
Doesn't matter to the 30-45 hard right terroists who are making the rest of the GOP jump like lemmings inot the abyss. But the lemming jump is not enough. They are wearing suicide vests and their fingers are gleefully thumbing the detonator.
Ther is no way for it to be resolved tonight. And the lesson of the 1996 shutdown is lost on these idiots. The government was shutdown for 21 days. They don't know the consequences. They will learn the impact of this ideological purity test. And I hope and pray that the fools of the Tea Party will all be voted out of congress. There is no room in governing for people who want to burn down the government.
It would be awesome if recall petitions were started in every state and congressional district of every GOP member who votes in this destructive and reckless way.
But this is just the preamble. The real crazy shit may happen when the debt ceiling limit comes to a vote.
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