Federal Government Shutdown

[DeistPaladin]

Glad you brought up 2007, because it shows how quickly the rhetoric gets supercharged when politically convenient for both parties.

Ah yes, the "both sides do it" line or the non-specific "Washington is broken" declaration that is so much in vogue these days.

In reality, both sides don't.

Democrats would never dream of holding the entire process hostage or threaten to shut down the government, never mind deliberately default on our nation's debt. This tactic has been the GOP's modus operandi since 2010. Many of them seem positively gleeful at the prospect, as if the shutdown was the end in and of itself.

Further, while Republicans screamed "traitor" at the slightest criticism of W Bush, my description of Republican tactics is quite accurate.

We survived the 2005 shutdown during a time of great economic growth. We'll see how it affects a sluggish recovery. I hope you're right.

If there is one silver-lining, it may be an inoculation against the coming threats to deliberately default on our nation's debt, which would cause calamity to the world economy.