So, let me see if I correctly understand your claim:
"The tactic did not work but the GOP voted Obama $2.4 Trillion so that the GOP could experience a 'feel good' moment"?
For a "feel good" moment?
Are you actually that politically naive?
You really need to wake up, smell the coffee and start paying attention to how nasty, hardball politics is played.
It has absolutely nothing to do with "feel good" moments.
Yes, it was all a sham. Obama could have prioritized spending to pay off creditors and avoid default and paid Social Security and paid the military. ..... If Obama were an ethical and responsible man.
But he is not.
Obama was perfectly willing to use Grandma as a hostage (and even projected that very terminology unto the GOP) and was perfectly willing to terrorize Grandma (and even projected that very terminology unto the GOP).
You need to wake up and realize what power the Left has in America as a result of the liberal media shaping the battlefield of debates. The vast majority of voters are not conservative political junkies watching FOX News or listening to Rush. The vast majority of voters are Sheeple that think what CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC wants them to think because that liberal media far outnumbers the conservative media.
We had months of warning about this crisis but the GOP did nothing to prepare the battlefield. In the end, the only message that was out there was the Democrat message: If the GOP does not cave in to Obama's demand for more Trillions, a Depression will hit, Grandma will have no money for food, Grandma will have no medical care, our troops will not get paid and it would be all the fault of the GOP TERRORISTS.
If the GOP had stood firm, Obama would have pulled the trigger on Grandma and, next moth, every CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC station would be filled with videos of crying Grandmothers saying that they were hungry and afraid because "the GOP terrorists" were holding them "hostage".
Do not doubt for one single minute that Barack Obama is not cynical enough to pull that trigger and do not doubt for one single minute that the CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC liberal media is not cynical enoug to be a willing partner in the Big Lie.
Hate to break the news to you, Dubya, but the strategy DID work.
My position stands.
To overcome the power of the liberal media's Big Lies, you cannot wait until the last minute to start putting your case in front of the vast flock of the American Sheeple. You need to start talking to the Sheeple NOW so that they understand it 18 months from now.
The GOP needs to start preparing the battlefield of the debate RIGHT now for the inevitable showdown that will come in less than 2 years.