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so Jim can fully recover without
hosting the fundraiser for two months :)
Thank you!!
Posted on 10/05/2013 3:01:50 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
IF the government shutdown has shown us anything, it’s that the 80 or so House Republicans driving the crisis have emerged as the most unified force in politics: tightly organized, highly disciplined and ideologically firm.
But wasn’t their plan to make the budget a vehicle for defunding President Obama’s health care legislation doomed from the start? And even if this small band has the backing of voters in their safely drawn “red” districts, as well as Tea Party support, haven’t their unyielding tactics antagonized a majority of the public?
In fact, this minority faction — the “suicide caucus,”as the conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer has called it — may be less shortsighted and self-defeating than it appears. At a time when so many officials in both parties still invoke the virtues of compromise and perpetuate the ideal of common ground on which “conservative pragmatists” can meet “moderate Democrats,” these more combative Republicans may be in the vanguard of a new post-consensus politics.
Consider the warnings of many,including some in the conservative establishment, that the shutdown will rebound against the party. As evidence they cite the shutdown of 1995. The winner then was President Bill Clinton, who deftly used the episode to right his wobbly presidency and then coasted to a second term in 1996.
But Ted Cruz,the Texas senator who helped set the stage for the conflict, has offered a different interpretation. Those prophesying ruin “need to go back and read their history books a little more closely” regarding 1995, he said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show in July. “In the next election,1996, Republicans held on to the majority in the House, the first time Republicans had done that since 1930, in 66 years,”Mr. Cruz pointed out. “We lost a total of nine seats in the House. In the Senate, we gained two seats.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I'll have what they're smoking, please.
Sadly NYT still hasn’t gone under, even thew few are left to read it. Maybe some internet billionaire will com in to save pinch salsberger.
That’s actually a thoughtful piece from the Grey Lady.
Has anyone ever heard of a dissenting vote from the Congressional Black Caucus? On anything?
Maybe the wheels in their narrow elite minds are beginning to understand that this isn’t a fringe group, but a national movement.
You make a stand at some point.
There are consequences to that, for good or ill. But you stand.
Think of the famous people we admire who did.
Nuts!
OK Corral
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
I shall return.
...of the people, by the people, for the people....
Tear down this wall.
“Let’s roll!”
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Ah, yes, running against that exciting candidate Bob Dole.
Exactly. And I think a critical mass of people have decided that now is the time.
SAM TANENHAUS is one of the smartest and move even-handed liberals out there. He wrote a a very sympathetic biography on Whittaker Chambers and the cold war. In this article, he hit the nail right on the head. A highly disciplined and a more ideological pure minority can be just as effective, if not more so, than a squishy consensus driven majority party.
Molon labe!
News Analysis a.k.a. Opinion Piece
Exactly! And why I made sure to note it as such.
I love it when a Lefty (or even a self-named Righty) hunts for a meme that doesn’t sound as irrational and insane as the voices banging around in his head...With this kind of “logic”, who needs to ever plead insanity again?
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