Words are inadequate

I am so unbelievably happy that I did not know that there was an impending furlough. It's stuff like this that makes me glad I left government contracting. :-)

The thing is, while I disagree with every tiny little part of Rep. Boehner's platform, I can't really work up any outrage about forcing a shutdown. Let's switch things around for a bit and say the Democratic party had a majority and they were objecting to funding for building new cells in Guantanamo. We're against torture, as all civilized people are. It's hard for me to see how someone can be against torture but not be willing to stop it through the budget, because it's not fair to do it outside legislation.

That's how they feel about abortion. They don't understand it well enough, so they believe it is murder. They think, however incorrectly, that Planned Parenthood is essentially the same as Nazi death camps. So of course they'll go to any lengths to stop it, legislation if they think they can win, budget fights and state laws if they can't. It's that important to them.

I completely disagree with what they believe, but I can't really fault them for the tactics with which they fight for those beliefs. If our side had been willing to fight as hard against Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib in 2000-2008 as the GOP is against Roe v. Wade now, then there probably wouldn't be a Guantanamo any more.