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Boehner owns the shutdown…by shenanigans…

Well..have been having a reading day today and one neat, little tidbit of information (another one, not the last one) jumped right out at me that says the ole Boehner owns the shutdown…he and his cronies (Ryan, Cantor, Sessions, et al) changed the rules of the house on the eve of the shutdown that took away the rights of all of the house members to bring legislation to the floor and replaced it with a new rule that said only the majority leader could bring legislation to a vote. Never mind that this has been a rule since the start of the country…with this change we now have one representative for 330 million people…and, with this change, we can see that the repubs had no intent for anything other than a shutdown. Now, we need to make them own it…that there is no role that anyone played but the establishment repubs no matter how much they are are trying to blame it on the tea partiers….these kinds of shenanigans should be prosecuted as sedition…as a person trying to bring down the government of the US…these folks should go to jail…geez…