[sickoflibs]

RE :”Yes but the shutdown occurred because the dems and Olucifer would except no changes at all to Obamacare, no defunding, no delay, no nothing.
Fund 100.00% of government or shutdown occurs, so they shut it down, and they left it shutdown until the GOP did exactly what they said”

I agree that Obama took a hard stand on it no doubt about it.
He basically said “You will surrender and you get nothing for it”

But that is because the initiative was doomed from the start and everyone knew it .

Everyone knew exactly how it would end(as it did), it was no mystery.
I know some talk radio shows were prompting listeners to act ‘outraged and surprised’ and you could see their comments here doing that. But most of them knew too.

But it was just another Kabuki dance

[chris37]

It was doomed to fail with regard to defunding it, because the republicans in the house and senate do not want to defund it. It then became about delaying it, but that was also doomed to fail for the same reason.

The main benefit of that entire scenario in my eyes was to show that a government “shutdown” has no consequence to anyone. There is no reason to fear it at all. The only reason the GOP pretends to be scared to death of it is because they are playing a con game, and we are the marks.