Republican Strategists To GOP Lawmakers: Please Don't Blow It On The Debt Ceiling

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – JANUARY 4, 2014, 10:54 AM EST

Republican strategists would feel a lot better about the party's chances in this year's midterms if it weren't for some Republican lawmakers.

The Hill reported Saturday that the looming debt ceiling battle has a number of GOP strategists "anxious about the party’s capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."

Only months removed from a government shutdown that represented a huge embarrassment for Republicans on Capitol Hill, some strategists are urging their party's lawmakers to cool it with their demands for concessions ahead of the Feb. 7 debt ceiling deadline.

“What Republicans have to realize [is] the political winds are in our direction. We can’t risk changing the winds at this stage,” GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak told The Hill. “You can shut down the Obama agenda completely if you have the Senate.”

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[BlueToTheBone]

1. Since when did repubs ever think rationally?

Here's to their persistent cry for the one term Black President...Too bad for them, he is now a 2 term Black President.