“The only other option is to shut down the government,”
And this will insure Obamas reelection?
But. Caving in and giving Obama a major political victory
and exposing the spineless republican party for what they
are won’t insure Obamas reelection?
It would go a long way toward ensuring Obama’s reelection; it would fundamentally transform the narrative from one of Obama’s economic underperformance and profligate spending to a narrative about how the Republican’s intransigence is damaging the economy and affecting the American people. Surely you can see this. The Republican Party, often spineless, actually wasn’t in this case, it just doesn’t have the numbers to achieve anything like the kind of structural reform that is needed.