US Federal Government Shutdown

[Sarmatian]

And POTUS is... ?

[Andres]

And POTUS is... ?

President Of The United States. Americans love acronyms.

[Sarmatian]

President Of The United States. Americans love acronyms.

President works just fine. If that's too long, Obama is acceptable, too, and if five letter word is too long to type, please refrain from posting and go back to your crayons.

[Pannonian]

President works just fine. If that's too long, Obama is acceptable, too, and if five letter word is too long to type, please refrain from posting and go back to your crayons.

POTUS was popularised by the West Wing as an easily pronounced acronym.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Piecemeal funding of a full appropriations package is an upgrade to the constant spate of CR's that these idiots have been getting away with passing. To say that it is "obviously a bad idea" is a bit of a cop out. We all agree (or an easy majority agrees) that funding should not be withdrawn from a, b, and c, so why can we pass a longer term bill funding those things and then move onto the next things. We could get out of the CR crap cycle.

Fund what we all want on an LCD basis or just hold us hostage over a bloated CR bill that is full of crap neither of us want. Although the GOP started this, something had to give. I hope we have the votes to hold for a long, long time.

Oh, and terrorism is defined as the systematic use of violent terror as a means of coercion, you partisan shill lightweight commentators. Somehow, in trying to clip the governments ability to control individuals in ways that nobody desires, we are accused of McCarthyism. You are the ones running around crying terrorism because you don't like the way people are playing with your toys, (which the other people have a right to play with)