Ransom

Got this in a mailing from Tea Party Patriots and I thought it bore repeating.  Democrats are spinning the government shutdown as the "cruel" Republicans bowing to the "extremist" Tea Party are holding the budget (yeah, the one they didn't pass last September so they wouldn't have the massive spending vote on their records for the November election) "hostage" to their "ideology" (another word that has been Toxified.  Why is "ideology" bad in and of itself?  You gotta stand ... for something or you'll fall ... for anything.)

Here is the opposite "spin", which is much closer to the truth.  The Democrats are in effect saying:

"Pay the ransom! (allow us to continue massive government spending) or we stop paying the military!"

"Pay the ransom!  (allow us to continue massive government spending) or we won't mail you your IRS refund check!"

"Pay the ransom!  (allow us to continue massive government spending) or we will ruin the tourists' vacations who are going to DC for the Cherry Blossom Festival!"

"Pay the ransom!  (allow us to continue massive government spending) or we will close the National Parks and ruin family vacations!"

Which really sounds like a 5-year-old's tantrum to me.