The media have
proclaimed the end of civilization for the third time this year. Sure, the mail
will still run on time. Sure, the police will still fight crime. Sure, you'll
still receive your Social Security check and your Medicare and your food
stamps. But by golly, if we don't get this horrific government shutdown solved,
the Sharknado is a-comin'.
Sen. Tom Harkin led off the hysteria by explaining that a government shutdown was "as dangerous as the breakup of the Union before the Civil War!" Virtually every front page in the country devoted its top headline to the dreaded government shutdown. Wall-to-wall coverage of saddened Americans decrying the temporary closing of the Statue of Liberty dominated the newscasts.
Who was to blame for this egregious situation? The media had the answer: Republicans!
The highly excitable Joan Walsh of Salon.com suggested via Twitter, "the govt shutdown is the end result of a 50-year GOP push to make govt=welfare and welfare=black people," adding, "That this crisis hit under our first black president, over 'Obamacare,' isn't an accident; it was inevitable." …… See more at:
Sen. Tom Harkin led off the hysteria by explaining that a government shutdown was "as dangerous as the breakup of the Union before the Civil War!" Virtually every front page in the country devoted its top headline to the dreaded government shutdown. Wall-to-wall coverage of saddened Americans decrying the temporary closing of the Statue of Liberty dominated the newscasts.
Who was to blame for this egregious situation? The media had the answer: Republicans!
The highly excitable Joan Walsh of Salon.com suggested via Twitter, "the govt shutdown is the end result of a 50-year GOP push to make govt=welfare and welfare=black people," adding, "That this crisis hit under our first black president, over 'Obamacare,' isn't an accident; it was inevitable." …… See more at:
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