[USS Alaska]

Congress’ Republican leaders face stark tests as they fight to keep the government open past month’s end, amid fears a shutdown could imperil their party’s White House ambitions.

Stupid bastards. They feared that the gummint shutdown in 2013, caused by Ted Cruz would give the House and the Senate to the demonRATs in 2014, what happened?

Now they claim, they never said that...bullshit.

It is the same cry now as back then, "Please Mr. Bear, don't throw me in the brier patch".

[DugwayDuke]

“Stupid bastards. They feared that the gummint shutdown in 2013, caused by Ted Cruz would give the House and the Senate to the demonRATs in 2014, what happened?”

You left something out. The flawed roll-out of Obamacare. Now which had a bigger influence, the shutdown or Obamacare? Shutting down the government is not a viable strategy.