Ian wrote:Of course you see it the opposite way, because you're prone to wishful thinking. Here are some facts: GOP defectors in the House are now at 20 and counting - more than enough votes to push through a clean budget (well, a CR for now) if only Boehner will allow it.
Here's hoping he doesn't till the dems come to the table.
Public opinion is strongly with the Democrats.
So Huffpo and CNN would have us believe. But they don't pay attention to "flyover country."
Only 1 in 5 Independents are siding with the GOP on this.
Sez who?
McCain is publicly wondering what the hell is happening with his party.
McCain? He's a fucking RINO turncoat.
Major banks (i.e the GOP's bed buddies) are already pushing for them to relent. Even Grovor Norquist is calling Ted Cruz a fuckup. And on the D side, they're completely united.
That's why we set things up this way, so that those fuckwits can't steamroll the rest of us.
How is this so? Well, try thinking from the opposing perspective for once. Just for once, Seth, you can do it. What might happen if a Republican President had a Democratic House who refused to pass through a budget without an amendment stating that a national assault weapons ban had to go into effect, or that cut the DoD budget by 10%, or raised corporate tax rates by 10%? Might they be seen as the instigators of this, making unreasonable demands in exchange for doing their jobs? Not to worry though Seth: Democrats are not so batshit crazy as to actually try a stunt like that, unlike the GOP nowadays, and I don't see them going that insane anytime soon.
Well, that's politics for you. Problem with your analysis is that 70 percent or more of the public hates Obamacare, and more will do so if it goes into action fully, when they lose their full-time pay, their health plan, their doctor and they are paying three times as much as they were for "insurance."
That's what the dems get for fucking around with us in passing Obamacare without the bipartisan support of the Republicans. Their arrogance is coming back to haunt them big time.
I guess we'll see in the coming days how good your intelligence analysis skills actually are.
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