Have you listened to John Boehner and other Republicans lately? He's said that they're going to do whatever it takes to stop Obamacare, what they deem as a boondoggle and a threat to the economy.
But here's the problem: Their threat in the pocket is to unleash two separate economic implosions on the US -- a continuing resolution to fund financial year 2014 which begins on Oct.1, and the debt ceiling -- to avert Obamacare.
Quite literally, Republicans are threatening us with a Pyrrhic victory.
Having learned from the last three years, Democrats have solidified ranks and are now ready to let Republicans seize their long-sought Pyrrhic victory. As dumb as it may be to let Republicans destroy the economy, you have to remember that Democrats didn't receive the credit they deserved for trying to avert the last threatened shut-down; in fact, Republicans blamed Democrats for the sequester cuts, even as they took credit for the savings from the cuts.
Senator Ted Cruz has said that he will filibuster the attempt to remove the de-funding portion of the House's continuing resolution. I say let him have unlimited time to filibuster. Make Ted Cruz and his supporters assume the costs of the filibuster that prevented a vote that caused the US government to shut down that resulted in a collapsed economy that caused the debt to explode as it always has whenever we've entered a recession. That'll prove their point, right?
So, no more sequestration deals, no more capitulation, and no more breaking ranks. Let Republicans have their Pyrrhic victory.
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