THE DEMOCRATS ARE IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL TO DESTROY AMERICAN FAMILIES WITH THEIR PENNACLE LEGISLATION CALLED PPACA THAT THEY JUST CAN’T LET GO WILLING TO SPEND AMERICA TO OBLIVION JUST SO THEY CAN STAND AND SAY I STUCK TO MY IDEOLOGY FIRST AND AMERICAN TAX PAYERS CAN GO KICK THE BUCKET FOR ALL I CARE SAYS SO BY THEIR ACTION THEM DEMOCRATS LED FIRST AND FOREMOST BY THE KING POTUS OBAMA WHO SAYS I DON’T NEGOTIATE WITH NO ONE NOT THE GOP BUT I WILL NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS LIKE IRAN

Mayor Vincent C. Gray stepped away from his role as scandal-scarred leader and into the spotlight as agitator in chief against the federal shutdown during a dramatic confrontation on the Capitol steps Wednesday with Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid.

At a news conference, Gray argued emphatically and sometimes emotionally for the city’s right to spend $6 billion a year in locally raised tax revenue without congressional say-so. It was a new public posture for an embattled mayor whose 2010 campaign remains under federal investigation — but who is now fighting to keep the District government in business by exempting it from the ongoing shutdown.

Members of Congress who’ve said they deserve their shutdown pay: Nearly half of the lawmakers have refused or donated their shutdown salaries, with many regarding it unseemly to collect a paycheck while their actions deprived more than 800,000 Americans of theirs. But some lawmakers have been vocal about their plans to keep their pay. Here are a few.

 

Why are some Republicans backing a clean continuing resolution to fund the government? In Play takes a closer look at the districts they represent for clues.

“Sir, we are not a department of the government,” the mayor told Reid after concluding his news event and then crashing another about 50 yards away, where Reid and other Senate Democrats were talking to reporters. “We’re simply trying to be able to spend our own money.”

Reid (Nev.) responded defensively in front of a bank of cameras and reporters. “I’m on your side. Don’t screw it up, okay? Don’t screw it up.”

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