Of course the real hostage Boehner and the T-baggers took was all of government operation. For the past two years, you can sum up Republican strategy like this, "If you don't do what we want we will do something that hurts the country even worse."
Tax cuts for the wealthy or we'll make you raise taxes on everybody.
Tax cuts for the wealthy or we will kill unemployment benefits.
No public option or we will incite our ditto heads to riot and filibuster forever.
Cut $38B from the budget or we will shut down the government.
And what do we have to look forward to???
Even greater tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and corporations or we won't raise the debt ceiling and we'll shut down the government.
Destroy Medicare and turn it into an inadequate voucher system or we will refuse to raise the debt ceiling and shut down the government.
They may be despicable, treasonous, ignorant pigs ... but they are very predictable.
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