Posted on 12/09/2014 5:39:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Republicans didn’t shut down the government Obama did it was his way or no way.
Not the RINO leadership (which is still in control); they want to spend just as much as the Demorats.
Sadly and begrudgingly, I agree with you and Mona. The partisan media has the low information voter thinking like an idiot. They already have the govvies here in DC whining about Republicans and they have not even taken office yet, for crying out loud. One caveat is that of timing...a shutdown in January for example is much better than a shutdown near an election day.
Polls...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3078203/posts
‘”Who is the biggest obstacle to ending the shutdown?”
44% Obama or Democrats in Congress
42% Republicans in Congress’
No other poll compared peoples views *of the parties*.
All other reported polls ignored people’s views of the Democrat Party.
“And we would have won in 2012 if 4 million Republicans hadn’t stayed home.”
I am not so sure. To me, the precinct returns in some key States told a chilling tale of behind the scenes manipulation.
Because they don't want to.
“What good does kicking the can down the road do if the Republicans are only going to surrender anyway?”
There is no viable path forward for the Republicans to repeal obamacare. There is no viable path forward for the Republicans to undo Obama’s amnesty.
Those advocating government shutdowns are like the Japanese in WWII. Faced with the frustration of their desires, they want to launch hopeless Banzai charges and commit seppuku. It won’t accomplish anything but it is the ‘honorable thing to do’.
I don't think the real issue is to shutdown/not shutdown, the issue is what is the GOP going to do to stop the massive amnesty illegally implemented by the feral gov.?
Based upon the actions of boehner/mcconnell the answer is not much.
It would be Obama shutting it down
Anything from RINOview should be suspect
BUMP
National Review, once stood athwart history yelling “Stop!”... now it cowers behind desks, afraid of liberal media coverage
What do you consider 'viable'?
They certainly have a path to shut down Obamacare. Now. Not January. What they don't have is the will.
/johnny
“viable” like the candidacies of McCain, Dole and Romney I guess
/johnny
bump
If the Republicans have no way to repeal O-care and/or reverse the illegal immigration pass of the community organizer, then they have a problem. Because that’s what they were elected to do. Even by the low-info voter.
What do you think they were elected for? Because of their winning personalities?
Joe Sixpack looked at his checking account this last year and realized this free healthcare isn’t so free after all. And then saw the Boy King issue a fiat to 5 million more competitors for his job. Granted that was after the election but it’s now in every mind no matter how dim.
So if they don’t do something about this situation they are going to look like fools, and will pay dearly in 2016. They can’t just push for tax cuts, because even if that would make economic sense the press will paint it as “tax cuts for the rich”. They have to make it look like they are trying SOMETHING about those two issues. Or this will be the last time they are ever in charge of anything.
abject surrender has never been a winning strategy
Also when the employer mandate exemption extension that was quietly done this last year expires, and millions more loose their healthcare coverage at work, the low info voters are gonna be looking for someone to blame. And if the Republicans aren’t doing something about that, there will be hell to pay.
That's right. Unfortunately that seems to be the only "strategy" the GOP knows these days.
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