"The maddening irony is that Republicans seem to be ensuring that history repeats itself precisely because they are behaving as if they fear that history will repeat itself. We can only assume that they're looking back in horror at Bill Clinton's deceptive PR triumph over Newt Gingrich in effectively pinning the government shutdown on congressional Republicans. Utterly paranoid of being scapegoated by Obama for a current-day impasse leading to a shutdown, they are acquiescing to ongoing temporary Band-Aid budgets that, despite the budgetary cuts they contain, are improving the Democrats' long-term negotiating position and thus -- and more importantly -- imperiling their efforts to slash the actual budget.
Do you think their strategy is to wait till it’s closer to the election to start pushing hard and just continue the continuing resolution till then?
But when are they going to start connecting 0bamacare to single payer? If you ask Allen West and the other Big Kahunas you hang with that on your show someday I’ll be your BFF!