The Republican House might as well have declared war against their neighbors. As Stephen Colbert suggested, the results of loss of jobs and pay should have happened to the Representatives and maybe they would have understood the results they voted in as to what they were causing their friends, neighbors, and more importantly their constituents.,
Colbert also had a great analogy regarding this move. He likened it to the Mafia threatening to do a knee cap...on their neighbors...as punishment for their position on sequester.
When I am most frustrated by this move and the Teapartiers (and Koch brothers behind it), I realize that a party who supports people who do not believe in science, evolution or rape, or equal right for all Americans, should bring no surprise. However, surprise and passivity should not be the only response. When a Nobel prize winning economist like Paul Krugman is ignored, it makes me wonder if the powers granted to the Congress are far beyond their limited intelligence to comprehend. While I cannot speak favorably of Justice Scalia, as I listened carefully to his statement (frightening as it was) he questioned whether the Congress should have the power to make such bills. He should also question the Supreme Court's powers which have recently been overreached.
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