And Dems had played these tapes of many of the same Republicans saying they wanted a shutdown.
I bet that if you had tapes of Dems at rallies calling for a shutdown to make Obamacare more socialist for example,, tapes playing on FNC every day during the shutdown, that all the RINOs would have lined up to hold out just like they did to vote against Obamacare in 2010.
Even the weakest RINO cant resist a winning hand.
RINOs get weak kneed, but how many are in solid red districts?
There's never going to be a tape of a democrat advocating a shutdown of the government because democrats stand for BIG government. It would be like Nancy Pelosi coming out and publically demanding that all Planned Parenthood clinics be closed or the NRA coming out in support of banning all guns.
John McCain, however, did come out and blame republicans for the government shutdown and it was not a situation where he was secretly recorded... he said it on national TV.
That is why the republicans were blamed for the shutdown. Of course the dems are going to try to blame the republicans, but McCain dishonestly confirmed it
The GOP led House passed a bill that would have kept government open and that bill sat on Harry Reid's lap. He refused to allow a vote. The Senate shut down the government, the House bill would have kept it open.
I never saw McCain or any other RINOs rushing to the microphones to condemn the White House's "Make it(the shutsown) hurt the American people" statement.