Government Shutdown Could Be Serious, Analysts Say

NPR:

In nine days, the federal government could shut down unless Democrats and Republicans can reach an agreement on a spending bill for the rest of the year.

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[BocaMom]

10:55 AM on 02/27/2011

Talk about jokes! Harry Reid is embarrassing for the Democratic party! What a political hack.

[brokenlink]

07:25 AM on 02/26/2011

Dear Senator Reid, shutting the government down isn't a joke - but we are broke. What appears as a dysfunctional disagreement between the aisles is just necessary. So play your part. Keep obstructing. Allow the federal machine to grind to a stop, especially the IRS.

While you are at it, think about introducing legislation to limit congress to one, two week session per year. With less time to make mischief maybe less of our money will be wasted on things we don't want and don't need.

Thank you for your work, but please, do much less of it.

[Chef Dracula]

04:40 PM on 02/25/2011

Can't do your job? Then just throw a temper tantrum and stop working. Nice job. You should all be fired.

[stape45]

11:01 PM on 02/25/2011

If we fired everyone who should be fired, for the past several years, it would never have come to this. Furthermore, we (THEY) couldn't have voted in the same ones who engineered the wreckage in the first place.

[Jerseytime]

03:20 PM on 02/25/2011

So Harry, you gonna let the GOP make you blink? I never thought of Clinton as a "tough guy", but he made a foll out of Newt. Why can't you do the same?

[toxicshock]

02:42 PM on 02/25/2011

I thought the most important thing was jobs? Where are the jobs, republicans!?

[JoeBlough]

02:37 PM on 02/25/2011

Dems will belly up and shutdown will be averted.

[haval2]

01:57 PM on 02/25/2011

send our checks.

[vippy]

12:33 PM on 02/25/2011

Well, dear Reid, how long have you worked in your position.  How long have you mismanaged this country.  How long did you pass this ridiculous paradox of corporate taxes, how long did you work to contain the middle class?  Now it is time to pay the piper.  Look in the mirror and see your accomplishments, and yes, the voters chose you again because you were the lesser evil and we have been voting for the lesser evil for some time now and were deceived nevertheless.  In private business you would have been fired a long time ago. 

[thestargazer]

11:57 AM on 02/25/2011

Shut it all down.... Is it any surprise that a significant part of economic strength is in D.C.? D.C. is also one of the few area where home values are (not only stable but) increasing.

Take everything (buildings, cars and furniture) and have a huge garage sale. Then throw all the bums in jail!

[luckyone77]

11:42 AM on 02/25/2011

you cant make government work by shutting it down. this will backfire big time for the GOP, as the impacts to the economy are realized. The only way that the deficit can be substantially reduced is to raise corporate taxes and bring the troops home.

[jeanrenoir]

11:16 AM on 02/25/2011

Most Americans are so lost in their big TVs, their other addictions, their porn, and their stupid escapist "irony," that they won't notice the government shutdown anymore than anything else, until the movers arrive to evict them from their foreclosed country.

[fauker1923]

11:37 AM on 02/25/2011

porn is nice

[JoeBlough]

02:38 PM on 02/25/2011

Takes away the pain of government.

[leorangerie]

11:06 AM on 02/25/2011

Okay, Harry, but what YOU been doing for the last eight years to solve this issue? Not much, evidently.

[Janine547]

03:28 PM on 02/26/2011

What a lovely thought. Barack, Mitch, Nancy, Harry and John... another beer summit.

[Hot Boudain]

10:42 AM on 02/25/2011

When I filled my car with $3.20 ObamaGas, I realized our President isn't a joke. He fully intends to diminish America and put us on the same level as his homeland, Kenya.

[stape45]

11:59 AM on 02/25/2011

I can imagine how you must have felt about $4.40 BushGas. Or were you OK with that?

[stape45]

12:15 PM on 02/25/2011

As for President Obama's "homeland", it's too bad your car can't run on Kool-aid.

[wowme]

10:32 AM on 02/25/2011

Yeah its not funny if its not a joke

[brokenlink]

01:05 PM on 02/25/2011

Yeah, its not funny, but harry's the joke.

[platypterus]

10:29 AM on 02/25/2011

Call the troops out of the Mid-East and bring them home. That'll balance the budget - quick fast and in a hurry. It will mess you up how fast the budget will start to balance out.

Why take grandma's groceries?

[Chef Dracula]

04:44 PM on 02/25/2011

Too obvious. Besides, TRILLIONS will be lost in our "jobs program" a.k.a. The War Machine.