And the Farce Continues ...

[Sukerkin]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24543581

The damage being done to America's reputation and, by inference, to the very idea of stable democratic government without a proper, separate, Head of State, is quite marked. Maybe the Republican's need to read up on the tenets of being a Loyal Opposition and the Democrats (or their leader at least), ostensibly holding the reins of power {ha!}, should re-examine what it means to be Presidential?

 

[K-man]

WASHINGTON: The chaos at the heart of government in the US danced into the realm of the absurd on Tuesday morning when the Congressional Republicans who pulled on the fight, failed to agree on their next move.


Economists have warned that such a scenario will have devastating effects globally and would lead to a worldwide recession worse than that caused by the 2008 financial crisis.



Republican leaders in the Senate were in the process of selling that deal to their members when their lunchtime meeting was adjourned to allow more time for their House colleagues to come up with a position of their own.
With the core dispute being one among Republicans instead of the conventional Democrat versus Republican stand-off, it was becoming more difficult to identify the gap through which leadership negotiators on all sides – Republican versus Republican and Democrat versus Democrat – might find their way to common ground ahead of Thursday's deadline for Washington, theoretically at least, to default because it will have reached its debt ceiling.


As some Republicans confronted the reality that President Barack Obama seems unlikely to fold in the face of their demands and that the Congressional Democrats are united, the former Republican presidential hopeful, Senator John McCain, warned: “It's very, very serious. Republicans have to understand we have lost this battle, as I predicted weeks ago - that we would not be able to win because we were demanding something that was not achievable.”




Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-shut...-the-absurd-20131016-2vlgb.html#ixzz2htGw8AJN

Aren't you glad we don't have this system of madness?
:asian:

 

[Bob Hubbard]

America no longer has Statesmen or Leaders. It has *** kissers, agenda trolls and lobbyist shills. Angry tired old men and women, who are out of touch with the People and a People who continue to select Evil because they fear change.

America's a dying nation. To save it, will require revolution.

 

[arnisador]

At times like this I do wish we had a head of state to fire the lot and start over.