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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDana Milbank: Republicans are at a dead end
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-republicans-are-at-a-dead-end/2013/10/15/30afc662-35d2-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.htmlHeres how grave the House Republicans condition has become: Theyre now in the care of a mortician.
In the early minutes of a marathon meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday morning, Rep. Steve Southerland, a funeral director from Florida, rose to suggest the lawmakers sing Amazing Grace and his colleagues joined him in a rendition of the burial hymn.
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It was an appropriate choice, for the House GOP is practicing its own form of mortuary science: It is burying both the Republican brand and Americas standing in the world.
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Boehner and his colleagues can sing Amazing Grace in the Capitol basement, but if they get the blame for a shutdown and a default, the only way theyll be able to preserve their majority is with embalming fluid.
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Dana Milbank: Republicans are at a dead end (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Oct 2013
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going to be hard for them to escape that stench of death on them after this too...
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2013
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VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)1. going to be hard for them to escape that stench of death on them after this too...
grasswire
(50,130 posts)2. Cruz looks like a mortician too.
I thought that from the beginning.
Cha
(297,275 posts)4. Kinda looks like the
Grim Reaper to me..
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. 'Death to America!' Republican style. Since they're really for the Confederacy or CSA, not the USA.
Cha
(297,275 posts)5. Exactly.. and in the mean time
please see my post above, fresh..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3859743
salin
(48,955 posts)6. "If they get the blame".... really. "If"?
How many polls does it take to change that one word. The public places the blame on the GOP - and that doesn't seem to be waning.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)7. Even if they give the country a clean CR vote today,
the damage is done to the republican party. It's only going to destroy their party if they carry this any further! They played with this stupid game too long and people are sick of them!