I think Boehner is likely correct they will try to undo sequestration if they don’t take these cuts. Since sequestration has not been a big issue, we need to let that continue for now.
Honestly, we made zero progress in getting the Dems to cave, and it has been weeks.
Many Freepers seem to believe Obama would just miraculously cave after a little time. Well, that didn’t happen.
Boehner did a good job even shutting things down at all. Is he caving? Yes.
But, seriously, what did you expect to accomplish? We could do this for six months and nothing would change except the polls turning more against us. Yes, the polls show Obama is in a bad place as well, but they do blame Republicans more, and at higher levels than the start of the shutdown. If we kept it up another 3 weeks, that would have only turned against us even more.
This is a terrible outcome, to do this and get nothing. But, many predicted it is what would happen, and it did.
There is simply no way to win fighting the SIGNATURE legislation of the opposition party when you only hold one piece of the government!
Go back and demand negotiations once it’s over, but don’t threaten default. As much as people say we won’t default tomorrow, and there is plenty of money and it would be on Obama, the officials who the credit ratings agencies LISTEN TO say we will default, and we don’t want even a threat of that happening.
Sorry, but this whole tactic was doomed to fail.
“Default” is a lie. There is no danger of default, more than enough money comes in to make debt payments.
There is simply no way to win fighting the SIGNATURE legislation of the opposition party when you only hold one piece of the government!
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Unless it’s the most important piece. $
GOP didn’t have much credibility to begin with. Now its totally destroyed. And worse, it handed over its power of the purse to the president and senate. This sets a terrible presedent that will never be reversed.
Yes it was doomed to fail, but not for the reasons you think. I said from the beginning even before it was passed and even when many here believed the Supreme Court would knock it down, that it would be the law because most of the GOPe wanted it, period.