My last blurb about the shutdown, really…. I mean it….

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Mark Rogowsky, Entrepreneur, raconteur, @maxrogo
Votes by Marc Bodnick, Scott Lowe, Nicholas Moyne, Jon Mixon, and 471 more.
Because the shutdown is entirely the fault of the House of Representatives.

You may agree with the policies of the House and that’s totally fine. In fact, if you do, you should support candidates who will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, demand the president approve the Keystone XL pipeline and anything else you wish.

Unfortunately, however, our system doesn’t allow one legislative body to get things passed into law by holding the government hostage over its wishes, petty or otherwise.

This isn’t about “getting over it” and letting Obamacare happen, as Marc Bodnick points out. It’s about the way the legislative process works. If you want a law passed (or repealed), you get it through both houses of Congress and get the President to sign it. If he won’t, you get a veto proof majority of both houses to pass the bill.

What you don’t do is decide that you don’t like a current law or policy and keep demanding it be removed in return for the actions of governing. If this method was acceptable, it would know absolutely no limits. When the Iraq war was polling at 34% with the American public in 2007, far below Obamacare, 140 Democrats voted to defund the war. No one said, “We aren’t raising the debt ceiling unless you do that.” In fact, Congress raised the debt limit without incident, as it always does, since the debt limit is an arbitrary, bogus construct that has nothing at all to do with appropriations or how much the government has agreed to spend.

Once a presidency moves to accept the idea that government policies that are law are open to negotiations simply to get a budget or a debt-ceiling increase, there is no purpose in passing laws or really even in having a presidency as part of a check-and-balance government. Let’s stop pretending this is about doing what’s right. It’s a bunch of children acting immaturely because they don’t like the rules of the game.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the House repeatedly passing bills to repeal the ACA (although it’s pointless and makes them look ridiculous, it’s the purview of the majority). There is absolutely nothing right about the House — unable to get a repeal through the legislative process — trying an end run around any way it can come up with to change the law of the land. Today, it’s the ACA. Tomorrow what? Civil rights? Defending South Korea? Funding a weapons program in the speaker’s district the DoD doesn’t want? Not funding a weapons program the military demands because a future Speaker doesn’t like the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? There is absolutely no end to this.