On Wall St, the Shutdown and Sequester prompt rally. Austerity brings cheers and a buying mood.

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22. We will be watching those talks. No negotiations with these

political terrorists on ANYTHING that adversely affects the people, such as the Chained CPI are acceptable. All the compromising with them has led them to believe that they will get what they want if they do stuff like this. And for all we know, since there was no chance of reversing the ACA that was not the real reason at all.

I did read Reid's letter and it reminded me of how angry Dems were back then when he chose to cave to Republicans on Bush's policies. He says in the letter that he hated Bush's Iraq policies, yet he continued to vote for the funding. That makes me even more angry. I would prefer if he has actually agreed.

That letter demonstrates that the Left/Democrats were right after all but our elected officials chose not to fight for THEY themselves believed and allowed the rest of us to take the attacks and the claims made to many of us that we were on the 'fringes' by Right Wingers 'because EVEN YOUR OWN PARTY' is voting with Bush.

Which is why we are now much more vigilant about watching what they DO, not what they SAY.

Reid's letter was clear. He was attempting to appeal to an sense of ethics that isn't there by pointing out how HE had compromised on an issue as important as the Iraq War, and is willing to do so again.

We will see. But we are all older and wiser now than we used to be. If you think something is so wrong, as the Iraq War was, then you should never compromise on it. It cost over one million lives. I can't imagine myself compromising on that. That is something so important it is worth giving up if necessary, one's political career over. A few people did back then. I have the utmost respect for them.