From the Progressive Caucus on the looming government shutdown.

[pampango]

Representatives Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), released the following statement today as House Republicans put the wellbeing of millions of working families at risk by causing an unnecessary government shutdown:

"We are extremely disappointed that the Republican Party put the ideological demands of a few ahead of the needs of millions of working families. It's not enough for them to deny tens of millions of Americans health care; they are also deliberately preventing housing loans to low and middle income families in rural communities, halting important government research into life-threatening diseases, furloughing thousands of working Americans and stopping $1 billion in assistance to small businesses. The American people need a Congress that works for them, not against them. The Republican majority proved with their action today that working families are not their priority.”

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=61&itemid=752

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Fuck, I could have told them that decades ago.

[Scuba]

2. See! There are some "real" Democrats left!!!

[yuiyoshida]

3. I want Democrats to draw a line in the sand and say

THIS AND NO FURTHER....

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. shhhhhhhhh don't tell the anarchist.....

they seem to believe that Dems and Pres. Obama are exactly the same as the republicans. Don't know how many times we are scolded and admonished about that "fact". They don't ever seem to remember things like this....

[Scuba]

5. Exactly the same? No. Too much alike? Yes.

Thanks to DUer RC for this great graphic.

[deutsey]

6. +1

[VanillaRhapsody]

7. not getting away with that bullshit on THIS night sorry....

[geek tragedy]

8. All Democrats are united tonight. Nt