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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

So What Did GOP Get For Shutdown?

     Boehner says they fought the good fight and should take pride in that. 

     "The House has fought with everything it has to convince the president of the United States to engage in bipartisan negotiations aimed at addressing our country's debt and providing fairness for the American people under ObamaCare.  That fight will continue.  But blocking the bipartisan agreement reached today by the members of the Senate will not be a tactic for us.  In addition to the risk of default, doing so would open the door for the Democratic majority in Washington to raise taxes again on the American people and undo the spending caps in the 2011 Budget Control Act without replacing them with better spending cuts.  With our nation's economy still struggling under years of the president's policies, raising taxes is not a viable option. Our drive to stop the train wreck that is the president's health care law will continue.  We will rely on aggressive oversight that highlights the law's massive flaws and smart, targeted strikes that split the legislative coalition the president has relied upon to force his health care law on the American people."

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/10/boehner-admits-its-over-and-hes-lost.html

      At least right now even Far Right Tea Party House Repubs claim to be proud of Boehner.

      "As the 16-day government shutdown likely wraps up with him allowing a vote on a Senate-brokered deal that also hikes the debt ceiling, conservatives who once deeply distrusted him are suddenly cheering the speaker."

     "I’ve been really proud of Speaker Boehner the last two and half weeks,” said Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), who didn’t vote for Boehner during a failed effort to oust him in January.

     "During a Wednesday afternoon conference meeting — where Boehner announced that he will allow a House vote on the Senate plan even if it doesn’t garner the support of a majority of Republicans, breaking the so-called “Hastert rule” — his members still gave him a standing ovation."


     So who knows, if the Tea Party members continue to really feel this way maybe Boehner himself got something out of this-job security. Though, interestingly, the Dems are claiming to have done something for his job security too.

     There are some, however, with a different view-the Senate GOP. They are somehow less impressed by these achievements.

      "A bipartisan Senate deal is finally in motion Wednesday to reopen the government and stave off debt default, but not before two weeks of mayhem sparked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other tea party lawmakers intent on using a government shutdown as leverage for defunding Obamacare."

     "As the dust settles, a number of Senate Republicans are looking around at the rubble and wondering how badly their party may have been damaged by the ordeal. Polls have shown the GOP's popularity plummeting over the last week, just as the tea party lawmakers driving the fight appeared less and less clear what they were fighting for in the first place. In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of federal workers went without pay, parks and monuments closed, and key federally funded programs -- from Head Start to cancer clinical trials -- endured major blows."

     "So did Republicans gain anything by forcing the showdown?"
     "No," Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said flatly. "I think the answer is no."

     I have to give it to Jeff Flake-he really has learned something.

     "That we know not to go down this road to a shutdown again?" Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) proposed with a weak smile. "That may be something, at least."

     That's actually the right lesson to take from this. If they really did learn this then something very good did come out of this shutdown and another round of debt ceiling chicken-that we never have this again. Greg Sargent has repeatedly pointed out that this is the whole point Obama and the Dems were trying to drive home.


    It looks like for some GOPers at least, the message has gotten home. 

     

1 comment:

  1. Here's what I learned about ObamaCare from the Tea Party, Rush, Erick Erickson, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Louis Gohmert: If not defunded, ObamaCare will destroy the known universe with 100% certainty. Every atom of our universe: utterly destroyed.

    Now if we can only convince them that if you listen to archived radio broadcasts of Alex Jones backwards he's trying to warn them that a secret provision of ObamaCare calls for implanting microchips in ballots: absentee and otherwise: to reprogram people's brains to.... ...like ObamaCare!! Tin-foil hats won't even help: the reprogramming waves are too strong. The only way to avoid being reprogrammed is to hide in a lead lined bunker three months either side of any election and never EVER get near a ballot of any kind!

    Final thought: since ObamaCare has already ruined everything on this planet (including free enterprise), what's a freedom loving Tea Partier to do? Answer: one way mission to Mars to escape the horrors of ObamaCare. It's already too late for Earth. The colonists can rename the pure new planet "Planet Anti-ObamaCare." It'll be a Tea Party utopia.

    (Don't listen to too many Alex Jones shows backwards though... because he says in one of them that his "online" research has convinced him that a little bit of early experimental ObamaCare was put on the Mars Rover in an attempt to ruin that planet too!! Oh the horror!!)

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