Got the dimmer ring?
The lights may go out in government buildings across the country soon if House Republicans succeed in blocking attempts to enable Washington to pay its bills.
Amid the operatic posturing and the chorus of chants claiming the American people don't want health care, conservatives are riding a wild merry-go-round, trying to grab a magical ring that will stop the health care law as well as government's ability to pay its bills.
The Radical Righteous minority with the loudest voices are not fabled Valkyries riding to rescue heroes fallen in political battle. The House has voted more than 40 times to cancel health care for virtually all citizens, claiming that the American people don't want universal health care. What reality are they living in?
Meanwhile, the Republican Party is abandoning compromise in its knee-jerk negativity to all things that do not conform to their own narrow view. Our way or the highway, the extremists cry. But a government shutdown may well mean they will be the ones on the road to obscurity.
A military coup is unthinkable in America. But it becomes thinkable if military pay is frozen while those in Congress continue to collect their own checks.
It can't happen here, you say? On the contrary, it nearly did. Twice. And not in fiction, either.
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