Washington Takes A Vacation

The government is indefinitely on break. Barack Obama is taking some time off and vacationing in the Bahamas. Every politician residing in Washington D.C. is currently drinking piña coladas with his or her feet up poolside at a five-star hotel, using the money that they are getting under the table while everyone else turns the other cheek.  Obviously, this is not true, but it might as well be.  The Sentate and House are unable to agree on a federal spending budget, and as soon as the deadline of 12:00 midnight on October 1st passed, the government shutdown was effective. No, that does not mean that the USA will break into a state of emergency, similar to that in the recent movie, "The Purge." For the most part, everything will function normally.  Cops will still be patrolling the streets and responding to emergency calls, security guards will continue to protect, and Congress will work on reaching an agreement.  However, non-essencial expenses, such as museums and transportation for college games between schools such as Navy and Army, will be cut.  That leaves the employees who work at these expendable locations unemployed for the time being, which is an obvious problem.  To me, the arguments between the Republicans (House) and Democrats (Senate) sound eerily similar to the ones I hear between girls in the hallways of James B. Conant High.  Both sides will refuse to admit that they are wrong, and it becomes a challenge of who can convince more people to hate the other side. No ground is gained, and in fact, the problems escalate, all communications cease and the only things that are exchanged are dirty looks. That being said, the conflict in Washington holds a little more significance than the very sophisticated bickering between the teenage females venting at their lockers to their friends.  The Democrats want to fund everything.  The Republicans are also in favor of funding everything with the exception of ObamaCare.  Maybe I'm not in any position to do all of this bashing on the parties of Washington, because my background political knowledge is very thin, almost to the point of embarrassing.  However, I know that an unnormal amount of stubbornness must be present for a politician to be successful, along with a very good poker face and very good lying abilities.  Therefore, I'm going to go ahead and guess that one of these parties knows that they are fighting a losing battle, but they are trying to bluff and save face by holding out in hopes of the other party caving.  Only time will tell with this, and for the sake of America, let's hope its sooner rather than later.