Oh my, SO busted.
Front page of the New York Times today (PDF), check out the story right under the picture. Nice to know that all the misery was planned well in advance. How, exactly, is planning to send the government into shutdown preparatory to forcing the US to default on it's creditors (I'm assuming that's next on the agenda, eleven days from now) not economic terrorism? How are these assholes still in their jobs?
Text of the original letter is
here. My goodness, the Tea Party even issued a spankingly spiffy little
toolkit packet (PDF)! How very proactive of them!
This was not a random happenstance, this was a coldly calculated maneuver to use a full on government shutdown to force the delay or overturn of a law the Tea Party doesn't like. They're fucking traitors and need to be on trial as such.
In similar news, Tea Party aligned Rep Lee Terry of Nebraska, says that while other government employees may go piss up a rope for their paychecks during this wilfully caused mess, he himself simply MUST continue to dray HIS pay because,
in his own words:
Quote:
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Originally Posted by Tea Party Asshole
“Whatever gets them good press,” Terry said. “That's all that it's going to be. God bless them. But you know what? I've got a nice house and a kid in college, and I'll tell you we cannot handle it. Giving our paycheck away when you still worked and earned it? That's just not going to fly.”
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Funny thing, our own
taters also has a nice house and kids in college, yet she isn't getting her paycheck. Guess some animals are more equal than others.
Assholes.