We need to start a collection to buy Satan some ice skates.
He'll has frozen over and Jennifer Rubin is making sense today...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/10/08/republicans-are-kidding-themselves/
Republicans are kidding themselves
By Jennifer Rubin, Published: October 8 at 1:44 pmE-mail the writer
Right-wingers who cheered the government shutdown are loath to admit it didn’t work out as planned. They therefore have come up with a series of pronouncements, which unfortunately lack any evidentiary support.
“Well, they’ve already taken a hit, so now the Republicans can hang tight.” This is actually contrary to polling showing public attitudes toward the GOP handling of the shutdown worsening. And there is nothing to say that as time drags on, the public won’t really hate what the Republicans are up to. There is a reason why politicians cut their losses; small problems can become catastrophic if allowed to fester.
“They didn’t want the shutdown, but now they have to fight.” Says who? There was a reason that GOP leadership didn’t want to fight on the continuing resolution; it is the box canyon of budget politics, and it is a race they can’t win. The alternative is obvious: Move on, get to the debt-ceiling debate.
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One would expect defensive rationalization from pols who had screwed up. But there is no reason for knowledgeable right-leaning journalists and third-party groups to pedal this nonsense. They only make the problem worse and the inevitable course reversal that much harder.
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It's NOT Jennifer Rubin, she's in a pod somewhere...
