Fourteen months ago, I publicly asked, in all seriousness, the question, “What government shutdown?” The public response to my question—and my disambiguation of “shutdown”—since then: silence. So now I have another question: Why are Republicans, even conservatives, so incorrigibly willing, sometimes it seems even eager, to truckle to word choices foisted on them by the Democrat left? Continue reading Government “Shutdown” Déjà Vu
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What Government Shutdown?
How easy it is for the Democrat left to fool Republicans, even some conservatives, by foisting their word choices on everybody. A conspicuous example of this is the term “government shutdown.”
The words “government shutdown” conjure up a vision of a Federal government in its entirety falling into a black hole for who knows how long. Oh, what a cataclysm! The nation, the world will collapse into total meltdown! Oh! Oh! Oh!