Have Repubs been snakebit by their shutdown strategy?

[kentuck]

Will they have the nerve to ever try it again?

Of course, they will have another opportunity in January. They may think there is enough time between January and November (Election Day) for people to forget?

Or maybe this has cleared the film off their eyes and they are scared to death that they are now going to lose both the House and Senate in the next election because of this disastrous policy? They really thought Obama was going to fold.

Or will it be a cold day in hell when they try to hold our government hostage again?

[DrDan]

1. of course they will try it again - the bluster has not stopped since they reached an "agreement"

Cruz is still as defiant as ever - and is Mitch

They will have learned some lessons, but they still hate the ACA (and SS and Medicare and Medicaid and on and on and on)

[Skittles]

2. oh they WILL try again

idiots do NOT learn from their mistakes - the difference next time is fewer people will be on board with them from the start

[kentuck]

4. I think you are right.

There will not be as many followers if they try it again.

[Warpy]

3. They will be only if they load that Senate bill down with junk

and the Senate doesn't bother to check it and rubber stamps is and we end up defaulting.

A default would cook their goose thoroughly and a few of them are just smart enough to know that.

However, the price would be too high worldwide, so let's hope they've really capitulated on their insanity.

[unblock]

5. the only thing they learned is that it didn't get them anything THIS time.

they didn't really lose anything, though, either, except in terms of image perhaps.

it's telling what they negotiated to get -- the opportunity to try it again in a few weeks.

you think they're going to pass up that opportunity?

[LonePirate]

6. They might try again in January but not after May due to the elections in November

[Vogon_Glory]

7. They'll Try It Again

I don't think that the Republicans have learned their lessons. They were already talking about using the debt ceiling to hold the country hostage even before the 2012 elections, played games with the debt ceiling twice during President Obama's incumbency, and caused the government shut-down.

They'll do it again.

The ONLY cure for this sort of Republican thinking is a massive voter revolt that throws hundreds of incumbent Republican pols out of office, replaces those pols with Democrats and independents, and turns the Republican Party into a permanently powerless minority party.

Today's GOP (Gathering Of Psychotics) deserves to go the same way the Whig Party went.