The Silliness of the Anti-Shutdown Republicans

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RedState: The Silliness of the Anti-Shutdown Republicans

By: Joe Cunningham (Diary) | September 28th, 2015 at 09:00 AM

 

In 2013, the government shut down. It was the first shutdown since 1996 and the media, who has no memory of anything existing before 2000 (and that’s being generous), freaked out like you wouldn’t believe. Of course, it doesn’t take someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of history to realize that shutdowns have been used quite often and quite frequently with little to no negative effect on the country as a whole.

 

Jimmy Carter, for example, with a Democratic House and Senate behind him, led the government shut down five times. Ronald Reagan let it shut down five times. Bill Clinton let it shut down twice. The idea that a 16-day shutdown was the worst thing in the world to happen is hilariously misinformed, when it is only the third-largest shutdown since Gerald Ford’s administration.