Your 20/20 hindsight is flawless (/sarc). Whether Obamacare was prefunded, funded, postfunded, deemed to be funded, 10/net 30, COD, DOA, POS is irrelevant.
The purpose was exactly what Cruz claimed it to be: to stop Obamacare by any means necessary. You & Sowell can dislike Cruz, the tactic or the strategy all you want, it was genuine and principled. And if the GOPe had its itty-bitty feelings hurt, then GREAT!!
I hope every conservative American undertakes every possible action to defeat GOPe incumbents. We'll put our GOP unity hat back on after the primaries.
this wasn't the only fiasco that irked me.
That tax cut extension fiasco at the end of 2012 had similarities to this, it was based on a very similar falsehood :That taxes would NOT go up if no bill reached Obama’s desk.
Designed to lose to Dems.
And that was unrelated to Cruz.
Not hindsight, I was warning here in comments before the shutdown that its was a coming train wreck.
Once the shutdown started I had to tone it down because its obvious the train wreck architects whole game from start was to point the finger away from selves once their 'plan' failed(train ran off tacks) .
That was the whole kid like game.
No, in fact I was warning here that a shutdown would not defund Obamacare back in September
If I didn't warn you would call it ‘hindsight’ as above.
We will NEVER beat Dems with silly ‘heads I win tails you lose’ games.