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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease tell me Joe D. Teabagger will feel pain if there's a shutdown
Maybe if they feel real pain they'll wipe the crud out of their eyes and see, or at least STFU and let the adults run things.
I don't want SSI checks to not get sent, but I would hope the TeaBaggers would see that they don't get to burn the country down just because they don't like a law.
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Please tell me Joe D. Teabagger will feel pain if there's a shutdown (Original Post)
NightWatcher
Sep 2013
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Chellee
(2,106 posts)1. Joe will feel pain.
And he will blame the president, or other unspecified socialist liberals.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)6. yep, that's the nut of it
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)2. We all will unfortunately...
Faygo Kid
(21,479 posts)4. Maybe not, but default could stop Social Security payments
90 percent of the baggers are on Social Security and/or Medicare, so that might get to 'em.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)5. Of course he will. But FoxNews will convince him ...
that it's the fault of the Democrats, the poors, the gays, the browns, and the Kenyan Muslim Socialist. And he will buy it. Fuck him.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)7. Yes, I saw a Fox survey asking who to blame
and the great majority blamed the Dems and Obama.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)8. Sure. And Rush, Hannity, and the rest of them
will convince them it's Obama's fault.