When the facts of the matter don't matter ...
... the matter itself doesn't matter at all. It's a smokescreen.
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The Republicans don't give a damn about 'Unconstitutional' Obamacare, which is really quite friendly to the health industry.
They could care less about abortion and the Second Amendment.
The really don't think that Benghazi was avoidable.
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I don't believe that the GOP is a party of morons, despite all the moronic things they are saying.
I do believe that they think that a good proportion of Americans are.
That's the method to the madness.
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Here's what Republicans - and the 'persons' that finance them - really do care about:
Dismantling the SEC
Dismantling the EPA
Passing Free trade agreements.
Finishing off what is left of the unions.
Privatizing everything in sight.
Removing whatever government protection we citizens have from the growing corporate oligarchy.
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There is no end game to the shutdown - it's only one move in a strategy to destroy the confidence and will of the people to self-govern: to convince Americans that "We, The People' are our own worst enemy.