I admit I have on occasions snarled "Those damn democrats are..." or "Those lazy liberal are..." insert hyperbole but I usually take the deep breath before saying it allowed, let alone posting it in text, and brush it up a bit too. Your justification seems to be an impossible to pass symbolic bill by the house, of which there are tons by both sides and more importantly by various sub-factions on each side. That's just kind of trivial as an example of 'nefarious behavior'.



I still I have the best rant ever on the site.



Good luck separating those along partisan lines, generally speaking there are precious few things major political parties will back without a bookshelf worth of papers to back it. There are certainly shelves full of economists who approve of tax cuts during slow economic growth.



I'd be willing to bet I could find as many non-partisan sources saying otherwise, not that non-partisan means damn to me. Claims of neutrality offered while discussing political matters sound like someone caught in a hotel room with a hooker and their pants around their ankles proclaiming their fidelity and high moral fiber.



This is all pretty much 'proof by assertion' here, I totally disagree. Also, a party of elected officials don't hold a budget 'hostage', that's just some talking point, they don't approve of the suggested spending, and a budget isn't a minor item everyone approves of that gets stuck on as a rider to be held hostage anyway.



Thing being you are sublimely convinced it is the House GOP doing this, that the Dem's are somehow innocent and would never do something like what you suggest. That's what flaws the rant. We haven't had a budget passed since the president got elected the first time, it is an annual process, failure to pass one is criminal neglect and I wouldn't mind if the GOP really did put the whole damn government on stop until the Dems agreed that passing a budget is the only non-emergency business that congress should be doing until they get it done.



Again, you think it is my side, most republicans I know say the same about yours, I feel that way too but I choose to assume it is bias on my part, you don't think so. I consider myself a very rational person, just about everyone I know views me as such, and I can't think of anything my party does that I'd call 'crazy', so I choose to assume neither side is crazy. I could say all the things you're saying but flip D for R, problem is I'd feel absurd doing so, again, you don't, and its hard for me to reason with someone who thinks a bunch of people I agree with and support are insane based on the stuff they do, which I primarily agree with, and yet that person apparently thinks I'm sane. So either your view is clouded, or irrational, or you think I'm an absolute idiot who is sane but agrees with crazy people. None of those really lend themselves to a good dialogue.