Republicans wanted the shutdown all along, and Dems have already lost the negotiations

[UCmeNdc]

The Republicans, all of them, have wanted a standoff like this since the 2012 election; they just couldn’t agree on how to stage it.

You read that right. They looked like they were dithering and dathering, lurching hither and yon, because they couldn’t agree on what to hold as the hostage and how to stage the battle. Would the hostage be Obamacare? The Ryan budget? The sequester cuts? Deeper cuts than that? Reinstate the Bush tax cuts?

Well, they finally settled, by fits and starts, on Repeal Obamacare Now, and here we are.

The Williamsburg Accord in January 2013 set the Republican strategy for Obama’s second term

You’ve probably never heard of the so-called “Williamsburg Accord” agreement that came out of the Republican retreat in early 2013. I’ll let Jonathan Chait tell the story,


http://americablog.com/2013/10/republicans-wanted-shutdown-along-dems-already-lost-negotiations.html

[longship]

1. Oh dear! Oh, Oh, dear!!!

I have been wringing my hands for days... Weeks!

What shall we ever do when hand wringing seems to produce so little?

I suggest that you start by calling your Congresscritters. Then, you might run for Democratic Party precinct delegate. (You might get to a national convention.) or volunteer to make phone calls. Or, help drive people to the polls on Election Day. Or, lick thousands of stamps and envelopes until your tongue is numb. Then sort them by zip code and bag them using the USPS methods so that you can deliver the bags to the bulk mail facility in order to save a few pennies per mail.

And, by the way, you need more than a couple people to do these things. You need lots of people who see the big picture and who see how horrible the opposition is. When one sees that, one finds many allies.

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