A 31 year old stupid arrogant ignoramus at Heritage Action

[boston bean]

is the "strategist" behind the shutdown.

Michael Needham: The Strategist Behind the Shutdown

'I really believe we are in a great position right now," says Michael Needham, the 31-year-old president of Heritage Action, the lobbying arm of the nation's largest conservative think tank. By "we" he means the Republican Party and the conservative movement; their "great position" refers to the potential to win the political battle over the government shutdown.

Though Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is the public face of the high-risk strategy to "defund" ObamaCare, the masterminds behind it are a new generation of young conservatives, chief among them Mr. Needham. From a tactical view, the strategy has been deployed with precision. In August, only Mr. Cruz and a band of renegade tea-party Republicans in the House favored this approach, and the media collectively scoffed. But by September, House Republicans couldn't pass a budget without attaching the defunding rider that has grounded much of government.

"We rallied the conservative grass roots across the country," Mr. Needham says, and ran ads in more than 100 districts on the health law. It worked. During the August recess, these activists demanded that their members of Congress stop ObamaCare.

To most observers, who think the GOP is losing this fight, Mr. Needham's optimism that Republicans will carry the day may seem astonishing. But Mr. Needham says the second-guessers are wrong.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303382004579129360000422966.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

[spanone]

1. mr needham is completely delusional.

[boston bean]

3. did you read the whole article. It's one of the most short sighted

dangerous incompetent crazy ass strategy with what have to be the worlds dumbest people willing to entertain such bullshit.

[Laelth]

15. +1, sadly. n/t

-Laelth

[JaneyVee]

2. Yeah, keep rallying the 24% of the country that "approves". Let me know how

Getting 24% of the vote works out for you during election season.

[dballance]

4. Good Grief. Get me some of what he's smoking.

He's living in the same delusional bubble that mis-led Romney to assume he'd win based on GOP polls and all others were skewed. "We just spent the last three months talking about nothing else but ObamaCare. It has been on the front page of every newspaper. The polls show ObamaCare's more unpopular than ever. People are starting to wake up that it isn't going to work at all," Uh, no, it's not more unpopular than ever and if no one thinks it's going to work there sure are a surprising number of people visiting HealthCare.gov and their state exchanges to sign up or at least find out.

The GOP is at the LOWEST approval rate of any party ever! That's only a great position in the sense that there may be no where else to go but up. But it's still at 24%. I'm sure they can lower that bar by defaulting.

[BlueToTheBone]

11. You don't want what he is smoking... it sounds like

that new horrible drug krokodil...the flesh eating drug.

[vinny9698]

5. This is all about making bank.

They play on people's fear, ignorance to line their coffers. All those staff people have high paying jobs. Dick Armey walked away with $8 million. Gingrich's Tiffany account, shows how much money is involved. It is a cottage industry that pays wells, regardless of the outcome. Plus college is optional, as a matter of fact it can be a liability. Hannity, Rush, Beck all college drop outs.

[AndrewRN]

6. Just like they were "absolutely positive" that all the polls showing Obama re-election were wrong!

[dballance]

7. I Remember when I was 31 and thought I knew everything

What a total immature, inexperienced idiot, nay I say brat. No wonder we're getting the results we're getting. We ARE playing by the rules of a toddler relative to experience that makes the ADULTS in the congress understand that compromise is how things work. Not throwing a total tantrum.

[brush]

8. Sort of like Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge

I saw him interviewed once and before I could no longer stand watching he mentioned that he was 12-years-old when thought up the no-tax pledge. Can you believe it? The repugs have been pledging to and following the creation of a 12-year-old mind.

And now here we are today with a 31-year-old thinking this shutdown is the greatest thing going.

[Siwsan]

9. republians are like the Black Knight in the Monty Pythons Holy Grail movie

They live in their own, self-constructed version of denial based "reality".

[Agony]

10. he thinks that the "free market" system we have now is Healthcare...

which is why he is an immoral fuckwit only interested in enriching himself. Any honest person who looks at the outcomes of our current system knows that it is at the bottom of the trash heap and that the ACA is a lifeline.

Fuck Conservatives of all stripes everywhere.

[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

12. Arrest him. Sentence him to life in prison. In solitary. With nothing.

Idiot Needham needs to be beaten like a red-headed stepchild.

He was 14 when the last shutdown occurred... was he paying attention or looking at dirty pictures from his daddy's collection?

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. How appropriate the WSJ has "Fail Your Way to Success" just above this in the sidebar

This guy sounds just a 20 year old conservative you're found on the net - they've spent a summer working in their Dad's small business, and now think they know how to run everything in the world, when the truth is Dad would sooner have had the guy in the mail room run the company than the too-ignorant-to-know-how-ignorant-he-is son.

This guy has, by the age of 31, picked up some idea of how to fund political lobbying. But he has no idea about how to govern a country, nor any desire to know. He just wants a 'win' that he can lay claim to, and he's chosen ObamaCare. And the idiots with the money have listened to him, and imperiled the world economy as a result. He's stuck in a late-adolescent 'support my sports team' phase, and irresponsible adults are letting him do it with the whole world's livelihood.

[Laelth]

14. Spooky. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[B Calm]

16. as I said they are counting on democrats giving in!