Nice try, but there is no excuse for holding everything hostage until their little agenda gets passed. It doesn't make Republicans look noble, it just makes them look like the selfish ideologues they really are, but pretend not to be.
"The Republicans are terrorists. They are holding the Democrats hostage" meme is tiresome.
There was an election. As Obama said when he got into office, elections have consequences. Remember him lecturing Republicans about how "I won?" Well, he and the Democrats lost in November. Big time.
Republicans are using the power granted to the Senate minority to do the work the American people want them to do - get the economy back on track and get the government funded in a proper way, not getting sidetracked with giving away goodies to Democratic special interests as the Democrats had done for the past 2 years, largely against the will of the American people.
not that this post is of any value, but I'd like to point something out to the readers. note the use of 'special interests'. it has taken an Orwellian meaning. special interests generally refer to organized or categorized segments of the general population: veterans in this case, but also labor unions, retirees, etc. in slightly different contexts. meanwhile the trillion dollar 'defense' budget, much of it an overt gift to tech, private security, and defense contractors is divine, sacrosanct, for the good of us all.
