Going over the Cliff

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So where is Donald Trump when you need him? *grin* I mean fair is fair. The birthers had been lambasting the president for being a secret Muslim. They should be lambasting the Senator from Texas of being a secret Commie. That or being a secret Canuck.
Edit: It looks like the GOP is trying to to place some very heavy spin for the next go around.

Within hours, Gowdy and Issa would join their fellow House
Republicans for a short meeting. House Speaker John Boehner would admit
defeat. But some Republicans were declaring a victory of sorts—maybe not
now, but down the road—for what the media had already judged to be a
historic debacle. They had revealed President Obama to be a cynical
political operator. They had proved to voters that they did everything
they could to stop Obamacare. When the next spending fight comes around,
they insisted that enduring this shutdown would strengthen their
position.





“It depends on whether or not we’re able to articulate why we did
what we did,” said South Carolina Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a conservative who
voted against Boehner for speaker but sings hosannas for him now. “We
believe we did it for the right reasons. We believe it was good policy.
We believe good policy makes good politics. But we have to be able to
explain that policy in order to accomplish it. I did an interview with a
local radio station back home a week ago, and it started with them
saying it was ‘just seven days until default.’ That was an indication
that our message was not getting out.”





Human beings have been putting their best spin on defeats since the
invention of “winning” and “losing.” Obviously, the many Republicans who
don’t want to trash their colleagues on the record are going to look
for the Alamo underneath the rubble of this loss. But this shutdown had
meant a lot to the party. Only a few dozen current members of the GOP
conference had endured the last shutdown in 1995–1996. Those who
hadn’t—and some of those who had—have insisted for years that it was not
truly a defeat for the party. In his 1998 memoir, Newt Gingrich blamed the media for making that shutdown a “story of Republican heartlessness.” By 2010, when he reminisced about the shutdown, Gingrich argued that its real lesson
was that his GOP had held onto the House in 1996 and balanced the
budget—and that if the GOP shut down the government to stop Obamacare,
the country would rally to the cause.

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