I've wondered that for a while, but it seems like right now it's been handed over without question to the proudly know-nothing loudly screaming Tea Partiers, who simply cannot grasp that we are all citizens together and they have to sometimes work with people they don't agree with.
Republicans actually believe they would have won the 1995 government shutdown, if only Gingrich and Dole hadn't blinked.
According to Newt as he sucks up to the Tea Party, yes, but not according to the older, more experienced heads in the GOP talking to the press today. Those who were around for the last shut down are still smarting from that electoral spanking and they just can't get the new kids to grasp that history repeats.
WTF is going on with the supermajority thing, I don't know. Unless Boehner is trying to put pressure on tea partiers and/or wash his hands of the upcoming wreck?
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Date: 2011-04-06 09:31 pm (UTC)I've wondered that for a while, but it seems like right now it's been handed over without question to the proudly know-nothing loudly screaming Tea Partiers, who simply cannot grasp that we are all citizens together and they have to sometimes work with people they don't agree with.
Republicans actually believe they would have won the 1995 government shutdown, if only Gingrich and Dole hadn't blinked.
According to Newt as he sucks up to the Tea Party, yes, but not according to the older, more experienced heads in the GOP talking to the press today. Those who were around for the last shut down are still smarting from that electoral spanking and they just can't get the new kids to grasp that history repeats.
WTF is going on with the supermajority thing, I don't know. Unless Boehner is trying to put pressure on tea partiers and/or wash his hands of the upcoming wreck?