Reply #128: A shutdown would have worked in the Dems favor. [View All]

[caseymoz]

As it did before. It's the Repubs who run on "smaller government" and fiscal responsibility. You can't get smaller than none, and you can't get more "responsible" than spending zero.

Yes, the President should have stood his ground, giving some only when people began to notice the absence of government. As it is, he has perpetuated the myth and has kept the Republican vision alive for them.

It doesn't matter that they "wouldn't give up" after a shutdown. They wouldn't have been able to "force" more compromises worse than this. Their tea partiers would have evaporated once their fantasy about smaller government became a reality.

You've bought into a delusion of constant weakness that lost the dems Congress in 2010 and that's going to lose this election in again in 2012. Except perhaps, Obama, who's using people like you to cover his ass. If the repubs had one strong candidate, he would be packing his bags from the White House in 2013.