The GOP will probably lose the House over this decision. It will be blamed on the shutdown, but it will be because the GOP can’t stand up and fight effectively and communicate. Boehner is an awful, no fire in the belly, spokesperson and it is debilitating.
Well it won’t happen because of me. I WILL vote for my current Congresswoman, Rep Martha Roby, Republican, 2nd Alabama.
Why would anyone on Free Republic vote for a democrat? I could see not voting at all, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater! There are still a lot of TEA party Republicans in the House!
Then so be it. The Repubs were not elected to the House to be DemocRATs.
The House (and probably Senate) will be won or lost need on how well the Republicans can exploit the implosion of healthcare.gov and ObamaCare.
The Republicans can claim that they blinked for the good of the country and to avoid the effects of a President who was pushng the nation into default to avoid a one year delay in his very, very broken healthcare system.
People are already seeing the problems with Obamacare, and are really going to hate it. And they’ll assign blame for it accordingly.
This is the equivilant of letting the rope go in a tug of war. Over Thanksgiving and Christmas families will be talking about how much Obamacare sucks, not a default.
With all due respect, what other outcome did you expect? Hoping a “miracle” will occur is NEVER a winning strategy.
Was Obama EVER going to permit ObamaCare to be “defunded”? No matter how much “keeping” ObamaCare costs America?
Has Obama EVER cared MORE about America’s economy than Tea Party Patriots do? Once we agreed that this FAKE “crisis” was “real”, we were doomed to lose the fight, because Obama simply DOES NOT CARE ABOUT AMERICA.
Patriots CAN win the next round, but only if we CHOOSE our battles carefully, and prepare for those battles IN ADVANCE.
I’d like to see Republicans demand that negotiations start NOW regarding the NEXT authorization of a debt increase — with one key difference.
This time, if Obama can not be bothered to negotiate before the “crisis” hits, Republicans need to place an empty throne-like chair in their meeting room and refer to that empty chair as Obama-the-Missing...