2 minutes (this is Jaime Raskin of Maryland speaking at the Biden impeachment diversion)

Whether the government is shutdown when this post appears is immaterial. Once again we have the MAGA Republican Party doing their best to hurt our country and the people of this great country based only on their whims. They threaten this shutdown after making a very public agreement last May to avoid any talk of a shutdown until after next year’s election.

Senate MAGA Leader Mitch McConnell admits that threatening to shutdown the government is very bad for his party, yet here they go. This shutdown will hurt anyone not in the top .01 of wealth. Immediately there will be government workers furloughed without pay. Military personnel will still be working but without pay. The poor will be cut off from benefits this poor children will go hungry.

Millions upon millions will be immediately be affected.

Beyond that the credit of the US will once again go down causing interest on the money borrowed by the US to rise. This will affect all but the richest who will benefit as they buy bonds. Stock markets will tank as seniors who have savings in stock accounts will watch their life savings go down thanks to MAGA.

MAGA Republicans know this, yet they do nothing but utter a few platitudes that mean nothing and are as useless as their “thoughts and prayers” statements after a mass shooting. It is their way to look like they care when they really don’t care. If they cared they would actually do something.

Once again, MAGA Republicans will do nothing to stop a shutdown. What is really sad is Iowa’s congressional delegation. As the deadline nears for the shutdown, they talk but actually do nothing mirroring their activity on guns. Mumble some platitudes but do nothing thus assuring that the gun sales and mass murders will continue.

Iowa’s delegation mumbles platitudes claiming that threatening shutdowns is not good. Where is the action to put those words into effect? The Des Moines Register on Thursday posted these thoughts in an editorial.  

Shutdowns cause real harm without achieving their goals

Iowa’s four members of the House, all Republicans, are all relatively new to the chamber, and together they make up less than 1% of the body. But with the Republicans’ majority being just 10 seats, 222 to 212, dissent from any voice is magnified, which has been evident throughout McCarthy’s nine months as speaker.

A government shutdown of any duration would hurt Iowans. About 2,000 would stop getting paychecks. Work projects and federal lending would stop. The Biden administration says money for the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program will be in a vulnerable state even with status-quo funding, let alone the bottom falling out.

Those facts should be reason enough for Reps. Randy Feenstra, Ashley Hinson, Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn to publicly announce that they won’t support major changes in any temporary bill because doing so risks a shutdown. Such a commitment from four Iowans plus one more representative would make clear that the status quo is the only viable path. 

To use that gritty old saying you heard from your parents and bosses “Shit or get off the pot.” Put a little differently, “DO YOUR DAMN JOB OR WE WILL FIND SOMEBODY WHO WILL. Or as I put it to an aspiring politician one day – I can walk out this door and find 50 people who can say what you do, I want somebody who will actually do something about it.

Miller-Meeks, Nunn, Hinson, and Feenstra are all mumble jumble and platitudes with little action. What little action the do do is only to help the wealthy. Iowans need people who will work for the 99% of the state that is not rich.

Christina Bohannan has announced her candidacy. We know that she will walk the walk based on her tenure in the state legislature. Her opponent talks about working for Iowans but when it comes to backing up her words she backs the MAGA party line that puts people last.