Yep, I think that Obama and the media are overplaying their hands as they spike the football over this alleged great liberal Democrat victory.
I think the Tea Party has lived to fight another day.
We still have to resolve budget issues and the debt ceiling. If I heard correctly, the new target date at which we will exceed the debt ceiling is Feb. 7, 2014. We are going to have some similar battles leading up to that deadline. We will still see if Obama and Democrats try to evade the debt ceiling by invoking a bastardized interpretation of the 14th amendment. We will still see if these Democrats want to continue to operate government without a budget, as we have for the entire 5 years of the Obama administration so far. There are still unresolved issues which we will have fights over. The outcomes are not at all certain as of today. They battle will continue, as I see it.
I think the Tea Party has lived to fight another day.
If it is as disastrous in its actual impact on tens of millions of Americans, this will end up being a HUGE win for the TEA party. I think that is the way it will play out and why Cruz did what he did.
Even if Obama had lost and been completely humiliated his toadies in the MSM would spin it as a brilliant victory.
The Republicans need to stop hoping for “fair” media treatment and go on the offensive in situations such as the shut-down.
What? Are you serious? The outcome in Feb will just be a repeat cave performance like all the rest. Obama won everything. Tea Party lost. They did a lot of talking and gave many federal workers a paid several week vacation but that’s it. The whole thing was a waste.
I think we need to think of other ways to inflict damage and influence voters that goes around politics.