House Freedom Caucus loyalist Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) downplayed the seriousness of a possible government shutdown on Tuesday as the House’s far-right flank drags out the appropriations process, threatening to cripple hundreds of thousands of government employees and Americans who receive services from them.
Right, because all the other Republican House-led government shutdowns the past two decades preceded big electoral gains the following year, and were always hugely popular.
Jeez, and I thought my memory was poor…
Tell me you want to take away everybody’s freedoms without telling me you want to take away everybody’s freedoms.
I didn’t realize until now that the “Freedom” in “Freedom Caucus” meant the freedom to be a moron and make a shambles of this country.
The fight is part of the Republican Party’s broader war against “wokeness” as it heads into another election cycle with no actual policy platform beyond grievances.
Wannabe bully boys depriving folks they feel they’re punching down at.
And, yes, that’s their policy platform, their ‘freedom’ and, apparently, why they think they should be reelected.
We have one party that believes in and practices governance. And the other party makes libertarians look well grounded.
These guys are like a bad TV soap opera: it is all a performance, the characters are incredibly shallow, there’s lots of faux drama, and the show never ends. Meanwhile, they want to defund PBS.
“Most of what we do up here is bad anyway. Most of what we do up here hurts the American people… Most of the American people won’t even miss it if the
government shut down temporarilyso-called freedom caucus disappears tomorrow.”
I agree.
Not to lean into heavily on it because the world operates as it does, and Democrats have their own campaign messaging issues. But I do wonder what might have been had all the breathless “America appears to want divided government” news reports and talking-head gaggles before the midterms could have devoted even a passing glance at what actually happens when the “we hate government” caucus calls the shots. Because most of us could have foreseen, and did foresee, this long before the first votes were cast.
I cannot tell you how pissed off I am that I help pay Bob “Good”'s salary.
“Most of what we do up here is bad anyway. Most of what we do up here hurts the American people…
Then by your own definition, you are a bad man. Why the hell are you there?
Same. And he “represents” my district by saying and doing everything the opposite of what I want. He is a small-minded, self-righteous squatter in the halls of government who spends his days vandalizing the country.
“We should not fear a government shutdown,” Good told reporters during a Freedom Caucus press conference outside the Capitol Tuesday.
Because that went well the last time you tried it 
"‘We should not fear a government shutdown,’ Good told reporters during a Freedom Caucus press conference outside the Capitol Tuesday. ‘Most of what we do up here is bad anyway. Most of what we do up here hurts the American people… Most of the American people won’t even miss it if the government shut down temporarily.’”
Just this morning I was reading The Berkshire Eagle from today and, catching up, from this weekend. In addition to articles about groundbreaking on an affordable housing project in Lee (city and state funding, working with a private developer) that looks like it might actually achieve its goals; a few other local government-in-action stories: a story about $3 mill for Waconah Park (a minor league bb team there), picturing Pittsfield’s mayor and our U.S. Rep Richard Neal; a story about Neal visiting Berkshire County country roads washed out by the recent flooding in New England. Gov. Healy had visited other flooded sites in the county days after it happened. Federal and state help for flood damage is already in the works. (In fairness, Gov. Baker, anti-Trump Republican, would have responded as quickly.)
As I read these articles, I wondered: what have the likes of De Santis, Greene, Gaetz, Gosar, and good done for their constituents lately?
The Freedom Caucus is to America as Elon Musk is to Twitter.
Up next, renaming the United States of America. Just to show they are making progress. Of some sort.
If that doesn’t work, then they rearrange all the desks in the government.
It’s a message he and his coconspirators in the HFC should run on, as far as I’m concerned.
That and savaging SSI and Medicare.
With this sincerely held belief, I’d think Good’d want to seek redemption.
Perhaps as a Trappist, or in some other order that discourages blather.
“…Most of what we do up here hurts the American people… Most of the American people won’t even miss it if the government shut down temporarily.”
Ummmmm, may we please see your proof of these contentions?? Yeah, I didn’t think so…
“We should not fear a government shutdown,” Good told reporters during a Freedom Caucus press conference outside the Capitol Tuesday. “Most of what we do up here is bad anyway. Most of what we do up here hurts the American people… Most of the American people won’t even miss it if the government shut down temporarily.”
You know what else most of the American people would be unaffected by? Throwing Rep. Bob Good in prison for the rest of his life. Is that sufficient justification for us to do it?
*Most of what we do up here hurts the American people… Most of the American people won’t even miss it if the government shut down temporarily.”
What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?
The aqueduct.
What?
…they, they gave us the aqueduct…
Yes, they did give us that, that’s true
And sanitation Yes, that too
The aqueduct I’ll grant is one
thing the Romans may have done
And the roads, now they’re all new
And the great wines too
Well, apart from the wines and fermentation,
And the canals for navigation
Public health for all the nation
Apart from those, which are a plus,
what have the Romans ever done for us?
Dear Rep. Good: you’re free to quit any time you like chuckles. If you acknowledge you’re doing nothing but harm in your current role, by all means LEAVE!