Posted on 09/29/2013 5:34:40 PM PDT by xzins
I'd love to read a few articles entitled: "Obama Threatens to Shut Down Government", "Democrats Threaten to Shut Down Government", "Harry Reid Threatens to Shut Down Government".
Those would be the truth in bold print. "Truth in Advertising" so to speak.
The reality is that democrat politicians are throwing temper tantrums over adding one more exemption to the huge pile of exemptions they've already issued.
They've given exemptions to their fat cats, big businesses, and corporate welfare pals. They've given exemptions to countless cronies. They've even given an exemption to themselves after this really odd whining about ObamaCare draining their brains (What?...Obama funded abortions on politicians...definite improvement...but I digress.)
And after unions complained about ObamaCare being a disaster, guess what? Obama and Reid are working a "deal" for unions.
Enter some politicians like Cruz and Paul claiming that regular people need one of those exemptions, too.
"We will fund the entire government" is what the House passed. "But we want an exemption for the regular people. A one year exemption is all that's asked; delay this monstrosity for a year."
What happens?
Obama throws a temper tantrum and threatens to shut down the government.
Who is trying to shut down the government and who is trying to fund the government? Check it out for yourself. Go read the legislation passed by the House. It absolutely DOES fund the government. All of it. The only exception is that they've added an exemption from ObamaCare for YOU.
You think Bohner+CO will hold out that long?
Whats changed everything is the Tea Party. Bohner can't get anything passed without them. The alternative is to look to the Rats to help him and he's smart enough to know that will kill the Pubs in 2014.
As he did once last year and twice this year already.
Pressure goes up enough and his moderates will be begging him to give in.
If he does that will end the Pub party as a potential majority party. Tea Party voters will vote 3rd party, or not at all. Bohner understands.
I understand why its ‘in’ to say that right now but Newts example explains why a cave CR after a shutdown will result in a incentive to spin it as a big conservative victory anyway.
My answer would have been:
“Yes, you in the media need to start calling on Obama and Reid to come back to work and negotiate with Republicams. As long as you keep on enabling them they will be emboldened to shut down the government”
Maybe a reason they get so confused is they really want a shutdown as some here are calling for, makes it hard to fight back and argue that they dont
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