As the world knows know, the GOP-ers & the Dems are duking it out on Capitol Hill as we speak.  The GOP-ers don’t like it that in March, 2010, over 3 years ago, Congress passed the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, and made it the law of the land just as many other laws have been passed, like Civil Rights laws.  Imagine the Republicans trying to hold up gov’t funding to stop that already-passed & signed law.

They’re currently trying to grind the government to a halt (which they’ve succeeded in doing for the most part already) and are willing to once again take a chance at not only causing a default of our nation’s debt (theoretically possible, but actually unlikely, as the president could step in & order payment of the debt by citing previous case law and/or legislation), but surely may cause its credit rating to soften once again, which happened the last time they put a stranglehold on government with their strong-arm tactics.  Turns out that the majority doesn’t rule — all it takes is a minority of a few motivated politicians to change the world.

Just in case you were wondering who to blame for the roadblock, here’s your smoking gun, straight out of a Texas babe’s mouth . . .

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the man who’s wanting to be the next George Bush, has recently said the following, and I quote:

Cruz: “We (read: Republicans in Congress & their idiotic supporters of this action) should look for 3 things — #1: We should look for some significant structural plan to reduce government spending.  #2: We should avoid new taxes.  And #3: We should look for ways to mitigate the harms from ‘Obamacare,’ ” He also said that the debt ceiling issue is the “best leverage the Congress has to rein in the executive.”

It’s an attempt to turn back a law agreed upon by a majority of both houses of Congress & signed by the President into law just a little over 3 years ago, a law which mainly helps Americans who have no insurance & can’t get it (“uninsurable” is what they call sick people) or who can’t afford it, and hurts those who have to provide the insurance (i.e., it greatly affects the bottom line of these rich & greedy insurance companies).

What’s amazing is that GOP-ers (both the politicians & their fanatics) actually believe (or at least act like) it’s going to affect them, but it really doesn’t affect much of anyone who has employer-based or gov’t-based insurance, and at last count, that was 80% of Americans.  If it does affect you, it’s simply because you have crummy insurance or your employer and/or your insurance company is using this as a (pardon the pun) lame excuse to raise your premiums, which they all did.

It’s really nothing more than a wedge the “White People of America Who Are Asses” are using to continually divide us socially & politically.