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"Despite York's snarking about this, the real value of this story is that we can see how the GOPe is trying to weasel out of the stand they accidentally took. Unless it is made VERY obvious to them that their political careers are OVER if they do, they will absolutely 100% fold."

Yes, and the media reports are 100% blaming the Republicans for the shutdown. They actually say that Obama and Reid won't negotiate and then blame the Republicans for the standoff. This is cognitive dissonance, but they deliver the diatribes with straight faces.

This is cognitive dissonance

Cognitive dissonance implies that the individual has the faculties for cognition in the first place.

Just sayin'

5 posted on 10/03/2013 2:46:05 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)