I think a wonderful compromise to the Government shutdown and debt ceiling controversies is

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5. I think that you have

a valid argument and point of compromise. The problem I see is that the TP faction has no intention to play be the rules regardless of how reasonable... they have been paid to destroy everything because their benefactors have decided that since they cannot have it all, nobody can have anything. There's no reasoning with the psychopaths holding the purse strings. that would be and IS the problem in a nutshell.

The best thing is to declare those who can be identified as enemies of the state and go forth from that point... It's becoming clear that this present danger can only be dealt with in that manner. The conclusion I'm finding I come to again and again.

Reasonableness on our part is essential, on the part of the opposition, that train left the station before they cashed their campaign checks.