Yes, the Democrats are Winning

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/10/04/yes_the_democrats_are_winning.html

October 04, 2013

Yes, the Democrats are Winning


Jonathan Chait: "Republicans are looking to make a budget deal now because they want to escape the political nightmare they've created for themselves. They blustered into a shutdown that corrodes their party brand and cracks the door to flip the House, which ought to be otherwise impregnable in a low-turnout midterm election. They can't figure out how to back down without winning concessions the Democrats have no incentive to give them. Then they need to lift the debt ceiling, where they've raised even loftier expectations, and where the Democrats are even more determined not to be held hostage. Their only way out is to fold everything into a negotiation, give the Democrats something, and hold up whatever they win as a trophy that made it all worthwhile."

The Week: How the GOP painted itself into a corner on the shutdown

[winter is coming]

1. So here's the question: what are the Democrats going to demand? n/t

[randome]

3. Demands are not how the government is intended to work.

I do not want to see Democrats behaving like Republicans.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Xipe Totec]

4. When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him. nt

[LordGlenconner]

8. In a perfect world

They'd be asked to fall on their swords, quite literally, but this is not a perfect world.

[bunnies]

2. Ive got a trophy for them...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. +1

[MADem]

7. Priceless....that gnome looking at the thing is funny, too! nt

[bunnies]

9. Clearly a teabagger...

worshiping at the altar of the almighty asshole.

[MADem]

5. ....the political nightmare they've created for themselves.

Some one needs to keep sending over drinks to Bonehead....

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. +1