Reid won't fund care for kids with cancer

[President Tyrion]

Republicans know that Obama is not going to sign off on an Obamacare repeal, so continuing to force the issue is what is is prolonging the shut down.

You could easily reverse the names, replace "repeal" with "funding", at get a statement about as valid.

Bull-f[inks]ing-sh[inks].

What on Earth could motivate you to think that makes any sense?

On one hand, we have a party that refuses to repeal a law that has already gone into effect, and opposed a government shutdown to that effect.

On the other side, we have a party that is not going to sign off on Obamacare funding. This is valid insofar as it represents the truth, sure. You know what the rest of the truth is here, though? The President has signed off on it. The Senate passed it. The House passed it. The people voted in a Democratic majority last election partially in response to it. SCOTUS stated it was constitutional. Nowhere in there do the House Republicans have any mandate for their actions. They're being obstinate. Sure, it's a truthful statement to state that their intentions are to derail funding. Now you tell me how their actions are justified.

[President Tyrion]

Republicans know that Obama is not going to sign off on an Obamacare repeal, so continuing to force the issue is what is is prolonging the shut down.

You could easily reverse the names, replace "repeal" with "funding", at get a statement about as valid.

Bull-f[inks]ing-sh[inks].

What on Earth could motivate you to think that makes any sense?

Err...facts?

On one hand, we have a party that refuses to repeal a law that has already gone into effect, and opposed a government shutdown to that effect.

On the other side, we have a party that is not going to sign off on Obamacare funding. This is valid insofar as it represents the truth, sure. You know what the rest of the truth is here, though? The President has signed off on it. The Senate passed it. The House passed it. The people voted in a Democratic majority last election partially in response to it. SCOTUS stated it was constitutional. Nowhere in there do the House Republicans have any mandate for their actions.

They all have mandates to whatever they ing can to get rid or chip away at Obamacare as much as possible from their own districts. If they don't do this, they risk being replaced by someone who will.

They're being obstinate. Sure, it's a truthful statement to state that their intentions are to derail funding. Now you tell me how their actions are justified.

The point isn't that the act of shutting down the government a few days ago was justified, because it wasn't. The point is that what the Democrats are doing right now by refusing to enter negotiations is just as unjustified.

This idea that the Republican Party is all of a sudden interested in "compromise"...hilariously pathetic.

It's obvious to anyone paying attention that it is extremely unlikely the Republicans (and the Democrats) won't get anywhere without one. The Democrats are trying to evade it, but that strategy doesn't look like it's getting anywhere soon.

Why exactly should the Democrats negotiate? There's no incentive to negotiate in bad faith. Americans aren't meant to negotiate with terrorists, and the Republicans chose to hold the country at gunpoint. Now, the Democrats should compromise on a bill that already passed because the House Republicans struck below the belt? Absolutely not....