The showdown could result in the first government closure since 1996. Obama is SURE to veto any attempt at defunding it.
Who do you think most people will blame for this when it happens?
So, how is this strategy going to work?
The strategy works by pounding the Dems non stop about how bad kenyancare is. Pick one awful thing every week and carpet bomb them with it. It’s simple really. Put some demands on the kenyan and Dems up for election. This isn’t all or nothing. It’s about engaging the dems or surrendering. Again. Yet folks like you want to go ahead and fund it and be the surrender caucus. You fund it without a fight, you own it.
The problem is you are giving the beltway GOP the benefit of the doubt. They haven’t earned that. It’s been one cheese eating surrender party after another since 2008 with these losers running the GOP. It’s way past time to light a fire under the beltway GOP and get them to push back against the destructive Dem policies.
It is a canard that the shutdown was a bad thing. Reagan and Gingrich both came out winners after shut downs. Gingrich was working to win the whole shebang, and got stabbed in the back by Dole after the shutdown had lasted only a couple days. Later information showed that Clinton was about to cave. There was a great deal of disappointment among conservatives that Republicans did not show a spine, and was a big part of Dole’s defeat in 96 and the decline of the party thereafter. In 1995, the Reagan coalition was still around, and controlled 55 percent of the electorate, as shown in the 94 elections. Even California elected a Republican assembly that year. By 2000, it was a 50/50 nation, and a big reason for that was that Republicans became the party of government.