Politics and the shutdown.

Posted by Judson Phillips on April 7, 2011 at 12:45pm in Tea Party Nation Forum


They have put ideology above the needs of the country. That sounds like a sound bite that would come from Harry Reid and the Democrats. That is the line that the drive by media is pushing.

They have put ideology and politics above the needs of the country. But it is the Democrats who are doing this.

A short time ago, Obama announced he would veto any short term spending bill. The GOP had proposed one that would cut $12 billion in spending, allow them a week to wrap up the budget the Democratically controlled House and Senate of last year did not pass and fund the military for the rest of the year, so if there was a shutdown, the men and women of the armed forces, going in harm’s way, would not have to worry about their paychecks.

Obama showed his true colors and threatened to veto the bill.

The central issue on the budget, for the Democrats, is preserving funding for democrat constituencies. The first and foremost is Planned Parenthood.

The abortion industry is a multibillion-dollar industry and it gives overwhelmingly to the party of treason. No one in their right mind thinks that the federal government should fund Planned Parenthood. Except, of course, liberal democrats who believe the federal budget is their own private slush fund to reward those who contribute to the party.

In any other setting, this would be considered bribery.

The lunatic fringe, lead by Chuck Schumer, (Marxist-NY) has been out there saying, “The Tea Party is the problem.â€