Rachel Maddow Sums Up The Shutdown In One Incredible Graphic - HuffPo

[WillyT]

Rachel Maddow Sums Up The Shutdown In One Incredible Graphic
HuffPo
Posted: 10/17/2013 8:56 am EDT

Rachel Maddow:

"Through this process, Republicans said they would shut down the government, or, once it was shut down, they would refuse to open the government unless they got each one of these things. Of all of these things that they demanded, they got none of them! None...these have been sixteen bad days for the country and the economy."

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/rachel-maddow-shutdown-republican-chart_n_4114662.html

[Coyotl]

1. K&R

[gopiscrap]

2. Excellent!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Given my readers I could not quite be that

Frank. Just point out how the delegation voted will be enough to stir passions.

[dionysus]

21. well, she had to step up her game after you scooped her on the Tea Party being crazy and all that.

[louis-t]

4. They "got" $3 billion for Mitch McConnel's state.

[SunSeeker]

11. It is for an infrastructure project that will put people to work.

It was for a crucial Ohio River construction project, just the sort of thing we need right now. The provision authorizes $2.8 billion in funding for the Olmsted Locks and Dam on the Ohio River between Kentucky and Illinois. The entire commercial navigation system of the Ohio River faces a choke point near Olmsted, where two locks and dams with century-old technology are barely cobbled together and at risk of failure.

This is not pork, this is repairing crumbling infrastructure. Just because it happens to be in McConnell's state does not make it any less beneficial. And if this is all it took to get McConnell's cooperation on ending the shutdown, all the better.

[Bigmack]

18. But it does..

..fit perfectly with the Repub theme that anything they want is badly needed infrastructure, and anything a Dem wants is pork... with the invisible addition that Dem projects only help non-whites.

[SunSeeker]

19. No, actually conservatives are pissed about this.

They're calling it the Kentucky Kickback.

[louis-t]

20. I agree, but the hypocracy of it all!

Repugs hate government spending when it's spent on someone else.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Cue Willie Wonka!!

K&R.

[Ash_F]

6. That's a pretty big list of "Fuck America" /nt

[rhett o rick]

7. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[WillyT]

24. Anytime...

[SHRED]

8. They got to keep sequester level caps

That is huge. This chest pounding is nonsense. The Dems not caving for once is no cause for celebration.

[ProSense]

9. Democrats are going into conference with a budget

that ends the sequester.

Wonkbook: Five reasons Republicans lost — and one reason they won
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023869945

Sanders Named to Budget Conference
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023870099

[Capt. Obvious]

10. They stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks

Of course they got nothing.

[The Wizard]

12. King Lear was wont to say

Nothing comes of nothing.

[treestar]

13. K&R

[davidwparker]

14. K&R

[florida08]

15. she was great last night

Throwing purple cards off to the floor with each one on it saying no, no, no..lol

[ajk2821]

16. Judge Smails said it best

You'll get nothing, and like it!

[Boom Sound 416]

22. I'll give you asthma

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. The fact that they tried to fuck their own staff was bizarre.

[onethatcares]

23. that is some serious wanting

and better yet, it's some very serious not getting.

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