Tag: Federal government shutdown

One of the federal employee groups working without pay are the TSA agents who insure air travel safety. Recently it’s been reported that some TSA workers have been calling in sick at higher that usual numbers. Certainly no surprise under the current circumstances. A stressful thankless job is hard enough…

I haven’t gotten an email from the White House since 12/21/2018!

According to most of the articles explaining the implications of the federal government shutdown on government employees quote these number: 420,000 essential employees are working without pay and 380,000 employees aren’t working and aren’t being paid. But more recent articles have also talked about employees of contractors who work for…

Let’s see how you do: A: Trump claims ‘many’ furloughed or unpaid federal workers want wall, support gov’t shutdown B: Trump now claims most furloughed workers ‘are Democrats’ C: Trump warns shutdown could last ‘very long time,’ D: All of the above E: WTF?

The Senate didn’t pass the budget extension act that had passed the House earlier in the week and the federal government went into its first shutdown since 2013. Pointing fingers and the blame game started even before it was obvious that an agreement wouldn’t be reached. Of course the federal…

Go and read the whole thing….it’s frightening. Yet, while the Tea Party’s inchoate sense that liberty is dying is distinct from the evangelicals’ perception that they are on the losing end of a culture war, both groups echo Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) Randian rhetoric about a culture of “dependency” fueled…

Watch as Republican Rep. Todd Rokita “mansplains” the Republican shutdown of the federal government to CNN’s Carol Costello. Keep it classy, Republicans…..keep it classy!

On Wednesday Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul were caught by WPSD Local 6 (Paducah, KY) discussing talking points on a hot mic. Watch for yourselves. Here’s a transcript of the conversation between Sens. Paul and McConnell: “I just did CNN and I just go over and over again…

This is hilarious.

During a press conference on Tuesday morning, Speaker John Boehner was asked by a reporter asked if he had a message to the 800,000 federal workers who are now out of work as a result of the Republican shutdown of the federal government. In response to the question, Speaker Boehner…