Huh... well its good to see that I was not alone in feeling this way. Apparently enough other people already did as well and I was out of step with the times:

http://www.ballotpedia.or...o_Pass_the_Budget_(2010)

Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-

NO QUARTER!!!

-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children