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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe shutdown probably won’t hurt Republicans in 2014. Here’s what will.
The shutdown probably wont hurt Republicans in 2014. Heres what will.By Ezra Klein at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/11/the-shutdown-probably-wont-hurt-republicans-in-2014-heres-what-will/
"SNIP...........................
There are two ways to interpret the GOP's ill-considered strategy over these last few weeks. One is that it's an aberration. They just made a mistake. It won't happen again.
The other is that it's structural. They're not here because they forgot to carry the one. They're here because their party has become structurally dysfunctional in ways that are leading to self-destructive behavior.
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So the question is, what then? If they reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling for six weeks and then they get nothing for it, will they really be able to pass a clean CR and another debt-ceiling increase in late-November? Or will the Tea Party feel that they gave Speaker John Boehner and his team a chance to do it their way and they failed. Now it's back to confrontation.
You can already see the seeds of this narrative being planted. Sen. Ted Cruz is telling his supporters that the polls look terrible for Democrats and that "the House of Reps needs to keep doing what it's been doing ... standing strong!" "I blame the leadership primarily because they decided to follow Cruz's strategy but in a half-[hearted] way," tweeted the Weekly Standard's Jay Cost, though the word he used wasn't "hearted."
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The shutdown probably won’t hurt Republicans in 2014. Here’s what will. (Original Post)
applegrove
Oct 2013
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VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)1. what will beat them? Obamacares (aka: Affordable Care Act)
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)2. The GOPS Senate Conservatives Fund will hurt the ones that are half-sane...
applegrove
(118,808 posts)3. Maybe all the citizen united money will actually do them in.