GOP Tea Party stepped on this one. When one goes to war, one must survey the terrain before attacking. Terrain is this, the MSM will make sure the GOP gets blame for the gov shutdown. If the GOP just passed the CR without attachments, the US will shift attention to the devastating effects of Obamacare as it takes effect. This is call common sense combat. Why the Tea Party and Cruz make a banzai attack across open terrain while the Dems with the MSM lay a PR trap is beyond me?!!! Reid will make the GOP bleed in the PR kill zone extracting maximum damage before the GOP can extract themselves from the attack. Hopefully this does not cost the GOP the house in 2014. If that happens it is in the wilderness for 40 years as the Dems solidify power in the US.
You couldn’t be more wrong. I don’t know whether you are in favor of or opposed to Obamacare. It always is easy to go along and it takes courage to act as Cruz and Lee did and oppose funding of Obamacare.
I believe that Cruz and Lee now have a reasonable chance of winning. Even if they lose they will be no worse off than they would have been if they had capitulated. This way, the continued existence if. Obamacare remains in play.
They are heroic.
You are a troll. A long time troll but still a troll.
Well, sitting behind a Maginot line with all the guns pointing in the wrong direction is all that the Republican leadership is offering.
“Terrain is this, the MSM will make sure the GOP gets blame for the gov shutdown.”
And???
Who gives a flying rat’s behind what the MSM says? Low information voters? The same voters who always vote democrap anyway??
First, this is not a government “shutdown”. MSM LIE #1.
Second, CrummieCare is not being “defunded”. It’s being blocked from funding because it hasn’t been apportioned yet. MSM LIE #2.
Third, mid-term voters are usually FOR reduced government spending, and they swing the vote when they GET OUT AND VOTE. Wheeny spineless GOP candidates lost 2012 elections because voters stayed home. Voters didn’t vote because their grievances landed on deaf ears. MSM LIE #3.
Fourth, it’s the independents that’ll swing this vote, chief. We’re damned tired of Congress ignoring We the People. We WILL vote for anyone with a spine who will take our message to the floor and do what we ask them to do, regardless of what the lameo commie pinko bastard media spews. They will do as they always do...spinning LIE #2,098,098,109,820,012.
You’re still playing Beltway Basketball like Congress and the poor excuse of a government does. The voters, the People of this STILL great nation, really want us to be playing Rugby instead. Americans love conviction and they eat conflict up with a spoon. They respect it, and that’s what this country needs, not some hot potato bullcrap footsie game played by whimps fearing that they might lose their “hollywood b-bawl image”.
Game on.
considering the fact the Democrats stole last election and maybe the one before it, fighting right now seems the only sensible thing to do
So what is YOUR suggestion?