That's enough

OK, that’s just about enough. The federal government has been shut down for over a week over what is basically a dick-measuring contest (which is what everything else in Congress comes down to).

The legislative branch passed the Affordable Care Act and the judicial branch upheld it. It is the law. It has its glitches and its drawbacks but it is the law. There are no more hurdles for it to overcome. It is time for the hissyfit to end and for the Republicans in particular to realize that they lost both the 2012 election and the battle over healthcare.

What kills me is there are probably people in Congress who think the way to protect the middle class from the overwhelming horrors of national healthcare is to put some of those middle class people out of work temporarily. Meanwhile, the legislative branch earns a salary while doing literally nothing to avert this shutdown, while Capitol police officers protect them without pay.

Incidentally, I wish the media would focus less on the fact that our national parks and monuments are closed and emphasize that the people who work in those parks are out of a job. It’s inconvenient that you can’t go to Valley Forge or Independence Hall but the people who work there may not be able to pay their mortgages on time. That’s the real problem here.

All of those ass clowns in Congress can go. All of them. I don’t want to vote for an incumbent again anytime soon. I wish I could register in every state so I could vote all of them out.

Except Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She can stay. She can run for president if she wants to. I read a speech of hers denouncing the “anarchists” in Congress and morons who think taxes = socialism and I just … I just … I can’t even explain what I felt. It was like a ray of light came down from heaven and I had an orgasm.