[sickoflibs]

Never take a hostage unless you are willing to shoot him, and more importantly the other side you want concessions from believes you will really do it.

Republicans were not willing the default on the spending that was already in law (by holding out on debt limit to the end), and they were not willing to raise everyone’s taxes Jan 1 because taxes on some income (upper) was going up and they didnt have the power to stop it.

They were not willing to take the blame for blowing the economy up. They were not willing to shoot the hostages.
So using those as hostages was not effective.

Now we have the sequester...DA_DA_DA

I like the Paul Ryan dopey pictures above, seems just like yesterday he was considered the next Reagan by many here.

[Tublecane]

There isn’t really any way to fix anything without blowing the economy up. That’s how deformed and unjust we’ve allowed our economy to become. Still, it’d only be temporary. What’s waiting is like a million Hirishimas in comparison.