I'm pretty sure Newt thought the same thing about Clinton, and yet shutting the Gov't down pretty much handed the next election to the Dems.
Last fall, when the Republicans started talking about a shutdown, I couldn't understand why they were making those noises. Hadn't the government shutdown backfired on them spectacularly? Clinton entered 1995 trying to assert that he was still relevant, but within eighteen months he looked presidential and Gingrich looked like a poo-flinging monkey.
Republicans actually believe they would have won the 1995 government shutdown, if only Gingrich and Dole hadn't blinked.
McConnell won't blink; that's why the last two years have been such a mess. Boehner may blink, but he knows that if he does he'll be the Caesar to Eric Cantor's Brutus.
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Date: 2011-04-06 01:51 pm (UTC)Last fall, when the Republicans started talking about a shutdown, I couldn't understand why they were making those noises. Hadn't the government shutdown backfired on them spectacularly? Clinton entered 1995 trying to assert that he was still relevant, but within eighteen months he looked presidential and Gingrich looked like a poo-flinging monkey.
Republicans actually believe they would have won the 1995 government shutdown, if only Gingrich and Dole hadn't blinked.
McConnell won't blink; that's why the last two years have been such a mess. Boehner may blink, but he knows that if he does he'll be the Caesar to Eric Cantor's Brutus.
I expect this budget fight to be very messy.
I expect the vote to increase the debt ceiling to be worse; Boehner is now claiming that he has to be able to pass legislation only with Republican votes, and there's no way he'll get to 218 votes for a debt ceiling increase only with Republicans.
Where did all the sanity on the right go?