Confusing

It's getting so that you can't tell the players without a score card. It seems that President Obama wants to extend the payroll tax holiday, but the evil Republicans are saying that they don't want to extend it. I thought that Obama wanted more taxes and the Republicans wanted less taxes. Weird, isn't it? Now, the President is threatening a government shutdown if the evil Republicans don't extend the payroll tax cut. That's simply the most bizarre thing I've heard lately.

Where I come from, a government shutdown is a feature, not a bug. As long as the Social Security checks go out, and the military gets paid, I don't give a good damn if the government shuts down or not.

One question: If we're cutting the payroll tax (which we all know funds Social Security) who is going to pay for the SocSec checks? There is no SocSec fund, it's been raided years ago, and now all those checks come out of the general fund.

This electioneering is simply getting too bizarre.