{"id":583,"date":"2013-10-15T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2013-10-15T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:33:08","slug":"shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenanigans!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The House GOP\u2019s Little Rule Change That Guaranteed A Shutdown<\/a><\/p>\n

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Late on the night of Sept. 30, with the federal government just hours away from shutting down, House Republicans quietly made a small change to the House rules that blocked a potential avenue for ending the shutdown.<\/span><\/p>\n

It went largely unnoticed at the time. But with the shutdown more than a week old and House Democrats searching for\u00a0any legislative wiggle room<\/a>\u00a0to end it, the move looms large in retrospect in the minds of the minority party.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat people don\u2019t know is that they rigged the rules of the House to keep the government shut down,\u201d Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), ranking member of the House Budget Committee, told TPM in an interview. \u201cThis is a blatant effort to make sure that the Senate bill did not come up for a vote.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s time to stop the absurd charade that President Obama is responsible for the shutdown of our government.<\/p>\n

This is nothing less than a well planned hijacking of our democracy by the same billionaire-funded right-wing extremists who gave us the John Birch society, and can\u2019t admit they lost the civil war. They fought against civil rights, and women\u2019s rights, and social security, and medicare, and food stamps, and continue to gnash their teeth in fear as the rest of the world leaves their ignorance and hatred in the rearview mirror of history.<\/p>\n

Corporate pawns on\u00a0the right \u00a0and\u00a0the left<\/a>\u00a0subvert our \u201cGuv\u2019ment of The People\u201d because it\u2019s the only thing that can stop their corporate masters from abusing us for fun and profit. They tell us \u201cBig Government\u201d is bad, but Big Banks are good then do everything in their power to hurt the American people and turn our government it into a festering pile of waste, fraud, and corporate abuse to prove how bad it is.<\/p>\n

Nobody claims the Federal Government can solve all our problems, but while Democrats and Republicans have different spending priorities, the vast majority of us\u00a0can all agree on the simple fact that the one thing our country DOES NOT NEED right now is the Federal government making things far worse by jabbing a knife in the backs of the people of this country and raising our cost of living more than it already is.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the old saying goes: \u201cYou don\u2019t have to help me, just stop trying to fuck me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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