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But conservatives are misguided if they think they could have done much better than Mr. Boehner, or that a shutdown would have helped their cause.

#1 - we'll never know, because Republicans didn't even try to get a better deal.

Now the smartest people in the room can walk around talking about what happened, what might have happened, etc. But look at Wisconsin - libs and the media have done very, very little to change what's being done up there. They've had to go to the left wing courts just to do anything to stop the conservatives up there.

#2 - The election was about GETTING THIS GOVERNMENT UNDER CONTROL. That was the message a majority sent on Nov 2010. It's what the people want.

The left now knows that even with a bunch Tea Partiers, the Republican party isn't serious about anything. It's going to encourage more of the same old, same old liberal crap.

Republicans aren't going to fight on the next issue. I'll bet you any amount of money you want. If they were fighters, they'd be fighting right now.

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The old joke still applies:

The Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument, and the Republicans respond with a plan to do it in three stages.