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In reply to the discussion: Please dial back the hysterical rhetoric. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)They can wreak a lot of havoc, and when mom and dad are tired, really tired, the two-year-old can very well stage a successful coup and take over.
The Republicans have gone way beyond the temper tantrum. It is time out for them.
This is the time to be strong and to recognize what the dangers of allowing the Republicans to continue their tantrum are.
Boehner really wants the Baby Boomers' Social Security and Medicare. That is what this is really about. The ACA is just an excuse.
Watch ALL of Stephanopoulos's interview with Boehner yesterday.
Maybe you don't need Social Security. Maybe Medicare is not important to you. Maybe you are not a Baby Boomer. But for those who need those programs, who paid in money they could have used for other things and are now told to eat sand, these are life and death matters.
This is not a time to act like business as usual.
For many of us, this is really a huge thing.
Like the surveillance, it is really a very serious deviation from the American way. This is again the 1% moving in on the 99%. We are in a crucial period, and we need to let people know about it.