Posted on 12/09/2014 5:39:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Sadly she is right. Our corrupt, partisan media has convinced the mass of low-info sheeple that if the government were to shut down, grocery store shelves would be empty and planes would start falling out of the sky within half an hour.
“The Republicans want what Obama wants on immigration and they are using the government shutdown as an excuse to not stop [him].”
Show me otherwise.
“Three weeks of press treatment and the truth is recognized by all.”-Oswald Spengler
Mona is plain full of $h1+ on this one.
Whether anyone can: “Show you otherwise.” is irrelevant to the main issue of this article which is whether a shutdown would only damage the republicans without achieving any worthwhile purpose?
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What she said of the media is about the only thing she got right in the article. Romney lost because many stayed home. She said that Romney only got 60% of the white vote, while true the statistics she was referring to weren't about white voters but about Perot voters who were white. I'm pretty sure that Romney got pretty close to 100% of the Perot voters who voted.
I'm not at all sure Romney would have been a lot better for the country in some ways. Sure we would likely not have Obama care, sure we would be much better off internationally and militarily but we would have still been on a slide down to socialism. It is socialism that is tearing this country apart and the Manchurian candidate running the country.
Obama and Jarrett would love another shutdown. And some on this board would love to give it to them.
She totally side stepped (IMO) the issue of, “The Republicans want what Obama wants on immigration and they are using the government shutdown as an excuse to not stop [him].” Where’s the defense of that? Sorry, Rush is right on that point big time. Just look at what Boehner is doing right now in the House.
What good does kicking the can down the road do if the Republicans are only going to surrender anyway?
And if my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle.
The problem that the GOP-E doesn't want to hear is that people won't vote for their liberal republican for president.
Romney was unelectable.
/johnny
Count me as one! Can't do any[more] harm if they ain't doin' anything!
Rush is never wrong.
The None “shut down the government.” That’s one of the few things that I don’t have a problem with when it comes to Barry’s governance.
However, since “shutting down the government” seems to scare the Low/No Information Voters, it would be worthwhile for Republicans to have a leader who can speak coherently and forcefully enough to get the message across that if the None refuses to sign an appropriations bill, it is the None who is “shutting down the government.”
And, obviously, “a leader who can speak coherently and forcefully enough to get the message across” does not appear to include either John Boehner or Mitch McConnell.
Where is her proof the shutdowns hurt Repubs? Polls that include Dems? They should only care what their voters think and they want them to take a stand and so do the Indies.
Pray America is waking
Mona Charen is wrong about the government shutdown. And many other things.
/johnny
BS. Loudly and publicly pass compartmentalized funding bills. “Now, we are funding welfare...” etc. Let the Dems own the fallout from saying no to each one week after week.
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