I think we should quit spending money as if it flew out of our assholes.
Time to stop these foolish, partisan led "investigations."
But that is exactly what Republican voters voted for...The GOP campaigned on obstructing and making sure Obama had no success. So their supporters voted for partisan wastes of money.
The people voted to prevent Obama from becoming a dictator. The GOP hasn't been in the position to obstruct him. If they were he never could have signed the DACA, or started implementing Obamacare.
You're kidding, right???
Do you realize how many times republicans tried to derail the ACA?
The issue was even dragged before the Supreme Court; they shut down the government, for crying out loud!!!
The government was shit down by Obama because of sequestration, and the Senate's refusal to pass a budget. Obamacare was merely excluded from a budget passed by the House which Obama vetoed.
Congress cannot shut the government down.
You really need to read up on the subject.
As for the House of Representatives' right to grant or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either. You can check the Constitution of the United States. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.
Whether ObamaCare is good, bad or indifferent is a matter of opinion. But it is a matter of fact that members of the House of Representatives have a right to make spending decisions based on their opinion.
ObamaCare is indeed "the law of the land," as its supporters keep saying, and the Supreme Court has upheld its Constitutionality.
But the whole point of having a division of powers within the federal government is that each branch can decide independently what it wants to do or not do, regardless of what the other branches do, when exercising the powers specifically granted to that branch by the Constitution.
The hundreds of thousands of government workers who have been laid off are not idle because the House of Representatives did not vote enough money to pay their salaries or the other expenses of their agencies -- unless they are in an agency that would administer ObamaCare.
Since we cannot read minds, we cannot say who -- if anybody -- "wants to shut down the government." But we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to. The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for ObamaCare.
Who Shut Down the Government - Thomas Sowell - Page full