Dan Kildee: “Once again, crucial deadlines loom, and here we are circling the drain, days away from another Republican- manufactured…”

“Once again, crucial deadlines loom, and here we are circling the drain, days away from another Republican- manufactured government shutdown due to the irresponsible lack of governing. Instead of forging--or even attempting to forge--a bipartisan compromise, we have another manufactured crisis, putting America on another roller-coaster ride. Unfortunately, we have been here before, with the other party playing politics and pandering to their Tea Party base rather than doing what we were sent here to do, and that is to govern. It's enough. The American public is fed up with this. It's time to drop the foolishness and stop pursuing--through threatening means that threaten the economy--what you can't achieve at the ballot box or through legislation. The implications of this shutdown are real: it will hurt the American economy, and it threatens direct benefits that our veterans and people with disabilities receive. There's just too much at stake. Republicans should drop this charade and do the job that we were elected to do, and that is govern, pass a budget, and protect the rights of the American people. ____________________”