[so_real]

I've agreed with the frog-n-pot hypothesis for years. But ... I disagree that this was somehow a "victory". The republicans blinked, not the democrats. One after another the democrats took the podium and repeated incessantly that this was a "republican shutdown". How many republicans in the House took the podium and said "No, we passed a bill. The democrats shut it down"? Few and far between they were. We lost because the spineless RINOs stabbed us in the back and diluted the message. And because the republicans lost, the democrats get to write the history and paint the republicans as "seditionists", and thus dodge their own spotlight as "socialists". This is not a victory. It's a call to battle.

[RitaOK]

We know all that by now. So, what are we going to do about it? Give up?

Hang around FR and find out. That is if you can pick your way through the whiners. .?/