To: The United States House of Representatives
John Boehner & Tea Party Anarchists: You shut it down, so we will shut you out in 2014
John Boehner & Tea Party extremists: You have shut the government down, and you’ll live to regret it. We have long memories, and we’ll shut you out in the 2014 election--every one of you who voted for even a partial government shutdown!
Why is this important?
John Boehner and the Tea Party anarchists act like taxation and government are inherently bad. They are not – taxation is the price of civilization – and we must have government in order to have an orderly society: roads and schools and Social Security and Medicare and safe vehicles and clean air and clean water and safe food and much more.
Instead of holding the country hostage, Boehner and the Tea Party gang need to get a heart transplant. Maybe if they had a heart they’d care about somebody besides themselves and the Koch brothers, the evil duo which provides most of the money for the Tea Party.
They don’t care about the unproductive work our government workers had to do to prepare for the shutdown, the money that wasted, or about the inconvenience to millions of Americans. They don’t care if the pay which thousands of competent, dedicated government workers and their families depend on is delayed. They don’t even care if the shutdown derails our fragile economic recovery!
Even if John Boehner and the Tea Party gang change their strategy and let the government re-open, they have plans to pull the same kind of shenanigan again in a couple of weeks, using the debt ceiling to once again hold the country hostage.
After their Tea Party shutdown and shakedown is over and our government workers go back to work, Washington-watchers believe Boehner and the Tea Party extremists will even refuse to pay the workers for the time they were shut out by the shutdown. They don’t care about anybody but themselves and their selfish funders and, oh, trying to make Obama look bad.
Let’s send them a clear message: “You shut the government down, so we will shut you out in the 2014 election. We have a memory like an elephant, and we’ll stampede you.”
Instead of holding the country hostage, Boehner and the Tea Party gang need to get a heart transplant. Maybe if they had a heart they’d care about somebody besides themselves and the Koch brothers, the evil duo which provides most of the money for the Tea Party.
They don’t care about the unproductive work our government workers had to do to prepare for the shutdown, the money that wasted, or about the inconvenience to millions of Americans. They don’t care if the pay which thousands of competent, dedicated government workers and their families depend on is delayed. They don’t even care if the shutdown derails our fragile economic recovery!
Even if John Boehner and the Tea Party gang change their strategy and let the government re-open, they have plans to pull the same kind of shenanigan again in a couple of weeks, using the debt ceiling to once again hold the country hostage.
After their Tea Party shutdown and shakedown is over and our government workers go back to work, Washington-watchers believe Boehner and the Tea Party extremists will even refuse to pay the workers for the time they were shut out by the shutdown. They don’t care about anybody but themselves and their selfish funders and, oh, trying to make Obama look bad.
Let’s send them a clear message: “You shut the government down, so we will shut you out in the 2014 election. We have a memory like an elephant, and we’ll stampede you.”