US Federal Government Shutdown

[Lemur]

The other side has a tendency to up the ante in response.

Insane. If you start a fight with no strategy to win, the other guy is not obligated to help you figure out how to exit with dignity. Have any of these fat old white men read Sun Tzu? Even heard of him?

This whole thing is beyond ludicrous, beyond comedy, beyond satire.

The House Republicans appear to have picked a fight with no game plan, no clear goals, just well-developed feelings of entitlement and rage.

Or as my favorite blogger put it in an epic rant today:

"There is effectively no Republican party any more. There is a radical movement to destroy the modern American state and eviscerate its institutions in favor of restoring a mythical, elysian, majority-white, nineteenth-century past."