US Republican Party brinksmanship brinks the world to brink of yet another financial meltdown.
Unable to defeat the US Democratic Party’s Health Care legislation democratically or legally, the Republican Party decides extortion might be the answer. They shut the US government machine down and send all federal civil servants home without pay for 16 days (and nudge the world to brink of economic collapse). Everyone is now back to normal which in government-speak means nobody agreed to anything, nothing gets done and the problem will be deferred in the hope that it will take care of itself. Stay tuned for part douche of this cliff-hanger when it comes around again in February of 2014. Even if those crazy Republicans still have a leg to stand on by then, legs won’t help if they continue to shoot themselves in the foot. Regardless, they will have a health plan to staunch those wounds. Disclaimer: Although some animals might have been affected by the closure of the Washington National Zoo (the real one, not Congress), I can assure you that no congressmen lost any salary as a result of this story.