I respectfully disagree. The defunding shutdown was a tactical failure but a strategic success. You can’t win anything if your starting position is a fetal position.
Not a tactical failure at all, it was a failure of leadership. They can not spend what the House does not appropriate, no matter how much they scream and holler about the Law Of The Land.
Boehner did everything he could to shut Bachman down for trying to defund ACA after the Republicans took over the House.
The GOPe Progressives are in favor of ACA and Open Borders, long past time we recognize that and adjust our strategies accordingly.
Well put.
“I respectfully disagree. The defunding shutdown was a tactical failure but a strategic success.”
The shutdown MAY BE a strategic success. I think reasonable people can diff on that point, especially since at this point we have suggestions of its effects, but no concrete proof one way or the other.