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On October 15, 2013, the U.S. Senate passed its bill to end the shutdown that was manufactured by the Republican cult faction, the Tea Party. The Tea Party was outraged because they were soundly defeated in the 2012 election, and were unable to stop health care legislation that was passed by both houses of Congress three years earlier and deemed Constitutional by the U.S. Supreme court. (If you're a parent, the word "tantrum" comes to mind.) For the bill to become law, it required passage by the U.S. House of Representatives, and of course approval by the president, Barack Obama. While the House vote was concluding, a long-time House stenographer, Diane Reidy, went to the microphone and started speaking :  “Do not be deceived. God shall not be mocked. A House divided cannot stand. He will not be mocked, He will not be mocked. He will not be mocked. The greatest deception here is that this is not one nation under God. It never was. Had it been, it would not have been …...

[Scene]: the smoking remains of the U.S.A. after the Tea Party successfully shut down the world economy because they lost the election in 2012 and couldn't stop a health care plan that passed both houses of Congress 3 years earlier and was deemed Constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. What follows is an interview with the former Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner (JB) by a representative of the American people (RAP). [RAP]: John, what the fuck happened? [JB]: The Democrats would not negotiate with a gun to their heads. All we wanted was for them to give us everything we wanted, even though it was unreasonable and childish. After all, we didn't want to walk away with nothing. [RAP]: So you allowed the world economy to go all to hell rather than put the issue to a vote knowing that the votes were there to pass a clean resolution. [JB]: You don't realize how much time it takes to kiss all of those billionaires' asses while at the same time tr...