House Republicans--Even the Devil Disavows Them

As Andy Borowitz noted, Satan is all about evil, and from everything the devil had heard in recent years led him to believe that the House of Representative Republicans in general, and the Tea Party Republicans in particular, were his people.  But with this, he realized that they are just stupid.  And yes, I do realize that this political cartoon is in poor taste and borders on the immature, but it is the shoe that fits this extremely stupid behavior.  And this man is responsible for the shut down of the government.  Make no mistake, he holds the cards to end this.  And people need to know that.  Accountability is everything.  All we need to open the government back up is for Boehner to allow the House to vote on the budget that the Senate approved.  That is all.  Then the House can return to their inane, know nothing/do nothing wheel spinning. 

This Congress may be held up as an example of why this form of democracy is flawed. The founding fathers clearly state in writing time after time that to serve in government is to serve the people. The motivation to become a U.S. Congressman should be, in their minds, to serve the people. There was often a personal sacrifice involved, and they certainly did not make a salary that would put them in the top 2% of the country in terms of income, without the additional perks that Congress today enjoys. So the motivation for public office has changed since the country began, as have the corporations that Congress men and women of both parties are beholden to. That is not good, not is it the way the government was envisioned when it was created—but the past several years have been atrocious, and now you, House Republicans, have shut the government down. For what? Nothing. The Affordable Care Act is the law. It is constitutional because the Supreme Court says that it is. It went into effect this week, and the amount of traffic on web sites was so great they crashed. So why are you keeping thousands of people out of work and making the United States the laughing stock of the world?