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In reply to the discussion: George Clooney Explains the Shutdown [View all]A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)49. People need to stop saying it is the tea party that shut down the government.
It was not the tea party, it was the Republican party. If it was the tea party, Boehner could call for a vote tomorrow, he doesn't call for a vote so it is the Republicans that shut the government down. Majority rules even within a political party, it wasn't 30 people that shut down the government, it was the entire Republican party.
Don't give the Republicans an out, they want to be able to say "it wasn't me, it was them", we can't let them do that.
The tea party was created to move the Republican agenda faster and it is working.
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Damn right! George Clooney's very existence is unfair to most other men in the world.
maddiemom
Oct 2013
#26
People need to stop saying it is the tea party that shut down the government.
A Simple Game
Oct 2013
#49