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From the lips of Cruz... no doubt it will bounce around RW talk radio in the coming days.
Great news for Dems... could mean lots of Republican Senators and Sen. candidates get some heavy primary opposition from the Teahadists...
=Dems maintain control in the Senate (if it was ever realistically in doubt)
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)mr_hat
(3,410 posts)Warpy
(111,261 posts)and the Koch boys have so much money they don't mind throwing millions down the extremist rathole. They'll never miss it and they know it.
Buddha_of_Wisdom
(373 posts)They are now drawing from their line of credit.
pscot
(21,024 posts)Starting with Mitch.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)It might be hard to believe that anyone would admit to such a thing, but Wednesday morning on Fox News, that's exactly what Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham did. He started out by explaining that Republicans had shut down the government because they don't want to "allow" Obamacare to "go forward" because they believe it must be stopped "before January 1"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/16/1247832/-Tea-party-ringleader-admits-the-GOP-shut-down-the-government-for-nothing?detail=email
Cha
(297,240 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Get the masses to believe you are winning, and when you lose blame it on someone betraying you.
Who didn't see this coming?
malaise
(269,004 posts)Someone should tell them
kentauros
(29,414 posts)"It's never our fault!"
aristocles
(594 posts)The Democrats, the Repuplicans, the Tea party...all various flavors of one party: The Beltway Party.
The only solution I can propose is term limits. Four years for the House, four years for the Senate, six years for President. And one can only serve once in a lifetime.
Let's get ordinary citizens back into the governing process.
randome
(34,845 posts)It was the media just a few hours ago. Now it's the Senate? What's next? Sunspots?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one youre already in.[/center][/font][hr]
kentuck
(111,097 posts)that if the Republicans in the Senate had stood behind the House Republicans, it would have been a different story.
So, who are the Tea Baggers going to blame??
Yep.