McCain: 'Republicans Have To Understand We Have Lost This Battle'

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

TOM KLUDT – OCTOBER 16, 2013, 6:35 AM EDT

With the government shutdown in its third week and the United States poised to reach its borrowing limit, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) urged members of his party on Tuesday to stop digging.

“It’s very, very serious,” McCain said, as quoted by the New York Times. “Republicans have to understand we have lost this battle, as I predicted weeks ago, that we would not be able to win because we were demanding something that was not achievable.”

Efforts to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the shuttered government unraveled on Tuesday, with House Speake John Boehner's (R-OH) proposals shot down by his conservative caucus.

The budget and debt crises were brought about by a campaign to gut the Affordable Care Act, a movement that McCain and other veteran Republicans decried as quixotic. In an interview last week with Fox News, McCain said repeatedly that Republicans are to blame for the shutdown.

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[Botany]

1. quixotic = Ted Cruz

[cosmicone]

2. Don Quixote was doing it for a good cause

Ted Cruz is just plain vile.

[MBS]

4. + 1000 n/t

[enough]

3. Understanding that they have lost is something today's Republicans never do.

Not with legislative battles, not with elections. This is exactly why we no longer have politics as we know it, or democracy as we know it.

[hue]

5. YUP! Understanding is not in the Tea/Repuke's repertoire.

[Turbineguy]

6. May it be one of many.

[City Lights]

7. Good luck dealing with the crazies in your party, Johnny!

You're gonna need it!

[Rozlee]

10. That's the really scary part.

McInsane and the loony bird have a tendency to flock together.

[City Lights]

11. Right. You know it's bad when McInsane looks like the sane one!

[tavernier]

8. That is the CRAZY part!

There was nothing to win or lose; no battle, other than manufactured in their pea brains... The country just needed the congress to sign the check to pay its bills.

The tea bagger dunces didn't get that, no surprise there, but McCain? He's been in the senate forever and knows S.O.P.

[L0oniX]

9. The ol McAsshole had a Ex-lax moment of clarity.

[tofuandbeer]

12. I wonder how much money passed hands to make this to happen?

and now, just as so many times in the past few years, they've lost again.
Their next trick will probably be to make sure their finances are ready for a collapse, so they can take it all the way to default and beyond.

[closeupready]

13. Yes, and people need to remember, the GOP will do this AGAIN,

and AGAIN, and AGAIN! They will hold the American economy hostage. They are ready and willing, and if they were able to succeed in doing so, they would. Period.