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“We’re not going to be disrespected,” conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., [told the Washington Examiner]. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

“We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen and outright frauds, a collection so ungovernable it insists the nation be ungovernable, too.” _ Charles P. Pierce, Esquire.com

“We’re not going to be disrespected,” conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., [told the Washington Examiner]. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

"If you're being disrespected, it's because of that attitude that you've got that you deserve to get something for doing your job! Everybody here just does their job, right? If you're working here and in the middle of the day, you just stopped and said, 'You know what? I want to get something, but I don't know exactly what I'm going get, but -- I'm just going to stop working until I get something. I'm going to shut down the whole plant until I get something.'
"You'd get fired!"

Barack Obama

"If you're being disrespected, it's because of that attitude that you've got that you deserve to get something for doing your job! Everybody here just does their job, right? If you're working here and in the middle of the day, you just stopped and said, 'You know what? I want to get something, but I don't know exactly what I'm going get, but -- I'm just going to stop working until I get something. I'm going to shut down the whole plant until I get something.'
"You'd get fired!"

Barack Obama

bad analogy because he opened himself up to the union comparison....but I like the sentiment

bad analogy because he opened himself up to the union comparison....but I like the sentiment

I think it's a fair analogy, because unions have a specific set of demands. Imagine if unions said they were going to stop working for an indefinite time period until they are happy with the situation. Imagine if they said they have no idea what they want, "just give us something" and left it open ended. Clearly Mr. Stutzman is saying they are just being beligerent and trying to create chaos and nothing more. If he had at least the presence of mind to to come up with some terms of the bargain, it would have been a different story.. It reminds me of when Rick Perry couldn't think of the third agency that he wanted to eliminate. Remember "oops"?

I think it's a fair analogy, because unions have a specific set of demands. Imagine if unions said they were going to stop working for an indefinite time period until they are happy with the situation. Imagine if they said they have no idea what they want, "just give us something" and left it open ended. Clearly Mr. Stutzman is saying they are just being beligerent and trying to create chaos and nothing more. If he had at least the presence of mind to to come up with some terms of the bargain, it would have been a different story.. It reminds me of when Rick Perry couldn't think of the third agency that he wanted to eliminate. Remember "oops"?

i agree, this is unfocused stupidity....it's what the baggers do because they know they are badly outnumbered.

“This is about the happiest I’ve seen members in a long time because we’ve seen we’re starting to win this dialogue on a national level.”

— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.),

"No, I don't think they should get their back pay, frankly, I really don't. I'm sick and tired of a massive, bloated federal bureaucracy living on our backs, and taking money out of us, a lot more money than most of us earn in the private sector, then getting a furlough, and then getting their money back at the end of it. Sorry, I'm not for that. I want to punish these people. Sorry to say that, but that's what I want to do."

Fox's Stuart Varney on the plight of federal workers, 10/02/2013.


"I'm getting screwed. Here I am, a private citizen, paying an inordinate amount of money in tax. I've got a slow economy because it's all government, all the time. And these people are living on our backs, regulating us, telling us what to do, taxing us, taking our money, and living large. This is my chance to say "hey, I'm fed up with this and I don't miss you when you're on furlough." Sorry if that's a harsh tone, but that's the way I feel."

Fox's Stuart Varney on the plight of federal workers, 10/02/2013.

"I need my paycheck. That's the bottom line, I understand that there may be some other members who are deferring their paychecks, and I think that's admirable. I'm not in that position."

Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) told ABC affiliate WTVD after voting to end the paychecks of hundreds of thousands of workers.

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"Several excuses are always less convincing than one." - Aldous Huxley

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

"We can’t lose all that when there’s no connection now between the shutdown and the funding of Obamacare."

"I think now it’s a lot about pride,"

Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.) admitting Republicans had no reason other than hatred of the President to shut down the government.

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things." - Albert Einstein

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." - James Allen

"Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself." - William Blake

"Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself." - William Blake

William Blake never met a Republican.

[A]s we debate this and as we make our final vote, let us not punish our seniors, let us not punish our elderly, let us not punish our military just to score political points. If the debt ceiling is not increased, America cannot pay its bills. We cannot meet existing obligations. We will not ultimately have the cash on hand to pay Social Security benefits, military retirement, Medicare benefits, unemployment benefits and other trust fund obligations. As raw as this recent election was, as bitterly contested as it was, with hurt feelings all around, we need to work together as Americans to take responsibility for our bills. Let us not default on our obligations. Let us not stop the checks to our needy who are counting on us. Let us not use our elderly as political pawns in trade for a seven second sound byte back home. They deserve better. We have a responsibility to pay our bills.

Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), encouraging his House colleagues to back a no strings attached debt limit in 2004. One of 104 Republicans who are in Congress today who voted to increase the debt ceiling under Bush without hostage threats.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

the biggest example is religion in all it's ugly manifestations

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx

"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, - quieter, warmer." - Dag Hammarskjold

"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words." - Thomas Reid

"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences." - W. Somerset Maugham

"It is often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it." - Adlai Stevenson