The will of the people to shut down the government when there is a disagreement? Really?
Yes, really. If it comes to the point that it is the only way that this bill be stopped, so be it.
Would you like a shutdown every time there is a disagreement?
No only occasionally when the options have been exhausted and a bill must be stopped from being implemented.
This is a step towards a level of dysfunction that is seriously alarming.
At best your statement is hyperbole at worst it is a grave misunderstanding on the Checks and Balances one of which is the House has the Purse and it can choose not to fund a department if they so choose.
Our congress people need to do their job on time with minimal disruption
No, that only happens with dictatorships with a rubber stamp legislature and in countries that have one ruling party. It does not occur as often in countries with at least a relatively free elections that represent their constituents.
. This is a highly destructive method of running a country.
No this is what the Congress should do when their is great controversy on a bill or program. That it is happoinig is showing our government still works as was meant to after as fashion.
A lot of people want it and whether you like it or not the bill was passed.
A majority do not want to happen or this would not be happening.
Holding the country hostage to appease a minority of the population is ridiculous and an excuse.
It is not a minority and the country is not being held hostage. The Senate could vote for the bill passed and the President can sign it thus avoiding any "shutdown" of the government. We would just not have Obama Care implemented and we can wait til the next election where both chambers are Republican or we can have the bill repealed and start over this time with pleanty of discussion and not having no release of the bll just before the vote.
To shut down the country? No. A majority view it unfavorably, yes.
You are wrong. Sorry, but a majority does not want this implemented. They want a repeal. This would include people who want a national health policy. I'm sure that this country can improve the health care but it must be discussed and debated and not done as some backroom dealing that was done to get it passed.
However if you break down the bill and actually explain it to people they support it.
They might support some parts of Obama Care, but the parts they object to out way the benefits of the bill.
This is due to the incredible amounts of propaganda that have branded Obamacare an evil that must be stopped.
So you want to pass some sort of Sedition Act with respect to Obama Care. I hope you don't mean that.
Just look at what people on this forum say. They act like a five mile wide meteor is headed to Earth and will wipe out civilization.
Properly prepared we could survive a meteor strike. There is nothing that we can do to prepare the damage Obama Care will do to health care and the economy.
Just like they did with electing Obama in 08, and 12, and with everything that happens that negatively effects the rich.
A lot of the really rich are supporters of Obama Care. Since you are so down on the "rich" that should give you pause. The Republicans are somewhat concerned abut the merely wealthy instead. Paris Hilton is rich. Your average small to mid size business is merely wealthy and Obama Care will be a great burden to them one way or another. Republicans are more concerned what the negative effects would be on the average worker.
It is somewhat an irony that now Republicans are more the workers Party than the Democrats. Obama Care is a bad system for workers.
Dysfunctional politics is not a good thing.
Yes dysfunctional politics such as the current President far exceeding his authority and has made many more violations than his predecessors.
There are real, negative consequences to this.
The consequences are far greater if Obama Care is not stopped. And if you want the politics to be less dysfunctional then adhering closer to the Constitution would be a partial solution for that.
No its not the end of the world but people lose jobs, miss paychecks, can't afford to pay bills.
Which is already happening
due to Obama Care.
It is highly disruptive all for nothing.
The nothing is what we will eventually get if Obama Care has a hold on our country.
We are a Republic not a Democracy. And my observation is more fact than opinion. The majority of Americans oppose implementing Obama Care. Given that if we were a true Democracy with a national vote over the issue then Obama Care would not just be delayed but repealed.
Changing or repealing Obama Care would be a correction which is a value neutral term for a change. You used a negative value term "regression" and thus you were giving opinion. And again the majority is against Obama Care that is not opinion.
You would have been better served hyperbole instead. Given what Obama Care is the worst is yet to happen if not stopped.