Replies to post #296341 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[BullNBear52]

Hillary did it.

[arizona1]

Did the Democrats forget Obama shut the Government Down for 16 days over ObamaCare.

The repubs controlled the house in 2013. It was a divided government. Now you control ALL three branches and still cant' find a way to get anything done except for tax cuts for billionaires.

[sortagreen]

Please explain how Obama shut down the government.

Did he demand money for a vanity project and then hold his breath til he turned blue?

In 2013 the Congress simply didn't pass an appropriations bill.

The deadlock centered on the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014, which was passed by the House of Representatives on September 20, 2013. The Senate stripped the bill of the measures related to the Affordable Care Act, and passed it in revised form on September 27, 2013. The House reinstated the Senate-removed measures, and passed it again in the early morning hours on September 29.[12] The Senate declined to pass the bill with measures to delay the Affordable Care Act, and the two legislative houses did not develop a compromise bill by the end of September 30, 2013,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_2013

Trump is demanding a payoff for his racist base. And the American people don't want to give it to them. Fuck them.