Yeah, because partially funding the government is the way to operate, just like cooperating with extortionists is always the proper way to behave. It's the people who resist such criminals who should be ashamed of themselves!
If they would have taken up a budget and passed it like they are constitutionally supposed to do, we likely wouldn't be in this situation. So lets not act like it all isn't half assed to start with. Yes, partially funding the government is better then the way it was operating- no, it is not how it is supposed to operate and neither is passing a continuing resolution in order to skirt around providing a clear accounting of the operations of the government to the people like a budget is supposed to do.
Crying that something isn't a good thing and we will have to put all those other programs as risk simply because you want it all is bullshit.
Because the news is reporting that? Of course, they're also reporting that Republicans are passing these individual funding bills to try to get people to not realize what's going on, and that Republicans are quoted as refusing to just pass a whole spending bill because they need to have some win out of this affair. They're also reporting a Republican Congressman telling a park employee she should be ashamed of herself, and others crowing how Americans will realize they don't need that government.
Yep, and all along, when you analyze that statement, it appears that you are angry because A, the republicans with their piece meal approach offered a way out of harming the majority of citizens not directly linked to government which the Obama administration is trying to use to inconvenience the people as a way of scoring political points and B, refusing to fund those specific popular programs are necessary in order for the democrats to insist that government must be large and in charge instead of the people realizing all that is done that they could actually do without.
Shit man, you think it's not about politics on both sides? I'll take the one that isn't trying to fool me with a hypocritical bullshit appearance of virtue.
It's about politics on all sides. This is the government which is a political body after all. The point I was making- and rightly so- is that Obama has options other then defying the law and US constitution if he sincerely thinks something needs funded. The pattern he has displayed so far is to make things uncomfortable as possible for as many people as possible while blaming the republicans while surprisingly the republicans seem to be trying to do the opposite while not giving up their position.