The sanity deficit keeps growing exponentially.

/Another/ rich retiree gunning for the senate.

I'd be interested to see what group of people make up or state government (private employment history, public employment history, basic demographics, etc).

Does that exist anywhere in a digestible form?

This obviously has nothing to do with the government shutdown nor the sequestration.

Are you kidding? Republicans will simply harp on ACA the entire election. As long as they call it Obamacare, people will agree with the ads.

Because for Republicans, facts don't matter. They ignore facts. The truth would destroy them.

@3 - sequestration, yes. Shutdown? Hardly. You'll recall they turned around and paid everyone they shut down after it was done. Measured against progress (because there is no profit for government services) the sequester was a net loss. Dumbest political, bureaucratic, and logistical move of the year. Hands down.

@3

The shutdown cost billions upon billions.

he could balance the budget and they'd still hate him and the ACA.

it's ideology.

BENGHAZI!!!!!!

Meanwhile, private sector debt is 250% of GDP, which also explains why the economy stays in the shitters but nothing to see there, move along, because freedumb!

@3
You are 100% correct. The sequestration is what brought the budget down a few notches, and we didn't even feel a think.
And Republicans are just as bad as democrats with their spending on war, the war on drugs etc.

And the problem with Obamacare isn't the cost it's that I have to either BUY INSURANCE FROM A CORPORATION or get a tax penalty. I'm a libertarian, but even I WOULD PREFER SOCIALIZED MEDICINE TO OBAMACARE! The democrats held both houses, a super majority in the senate and the presidency when they passed Obamacare with only one Republican congress person voting for it. They easily could have passed single payer, but instead they left us with this mess.

@12 your pants are on fire