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So this government shutdown was for what?  Obamacare is still in place (although it is struggling mightily, and might be the biggest story on the news if Republicans weren't able to make the most incompetent Democrats look like Goddamn geniuses) and Republicans got pretty much jackshit out of their "negotiations" .  So we went through 16 days of bullshit sideshows like the World War II Memorial circus, and the evidence comes in that if my Congressman, John Boehner, had brought the original Senate bills to the floor, we never would have had a government shutdown.  But the thing is, the Republicans made themselves look so damn stupid all on their own.  This was the world's biggest unforced error. 

I have been wondering something about the WWII monument clusterfuck.  Tea Partiers claim to be big fans of history.  Yet, they didn't realize that in the last government shutdown the National Park service shut down the D.C. memorials?  And did they realize that the same big government that they hate now was much more omnipresent during World War II?  The government then had a much higher debt to GDP ratio, dictated what industry would build, built factories to manufacture more products for government purchase, rationed fuel and food, installed price and wage controls, enforced mandatory conscription, taxed incomes at rates up to 90%, enforced blackouts at night and generally made Barack Obama look like a reactionary.  How can they shut down the government, make some ridiculous scene about the government blocking veterans from their memorial because the government they shut down is shut down, and then talk about how much freedom we've lost compared to when those same veterans were young.  How is that for cognitive dissonance?  These guys claim to be patriots, but they are the Southern Democrats of 1861.