Edited on Tue Dec-07-10 09:36 PM by MannyGoldstein
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Scene 1:
Rethugs: "Give hundreds of billions to the Predator class or we'll raise taxes on the middle class and fuck the unemployed!"
Democrats: "Go screw. We're creating a single bill with tax cuts for ONLY working Americans, and extended unemployment benefits. Vote for it or don't - go ahead, make our day"
Rethugs: "Oh yeah? We ain't voting for it, Kenyan Muslim crypto-Marxist scum!"
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Scene 2:
A few days have passed...
Rethugs: "Oh shit! Oh shit! Everyone wants to fucking kill us, and Obama's, Pelosi's and Reid's approval ratings are through the roof! I can't believe that our leadership failed to understand that more than 70% of Americans BADLY WANT tax cuts for ONLY working Americans! And they're blaming us for raising their taxes! Crap! Make it stop! Make it stop! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh..."
And soon thereafter, a new bill passes with tax cuts for ONLY working Americans, AND an extension for the unemployed, along with some small bauble so the Rethugs can claim some sort of victory."
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Think I'm full of crap? History says otherwise.
This is exactly what happened when Gingrich and company tried to blackmail Clinton into all sorts of crazy shit, saying they'd shut down government if he didn't give in. Clinton knew most Americans agreed with him, and he strode onto the TV and said "Those fuckers are trying to force me to do stuff that most Americans don't want, and so they're shutting down the government. I don't want to shut down the government, but I'm not going to put up with blackmail."
The Republicans were in flames in days, and Gingrich eventually got the boot. From Wikipedia:
The Republicans blamed Clinton for the shutdown, and Clinton blamed the Republicans. Public opinion favored the president; Clinton's approval rating rose to the highest it had been since his election. The Republicans' support was further diminished two days later when Gingrich made a widely-reported complaint about being snubbed by Clinton; Tom DeLay called it "the mistake of his life".
DeLay writes in his book No Retreat, No Surrender:
"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One... Newt had been careless to say such a thing, and now the whole moral tone of the shutdown had been lost. What had been a noble battle for fiscal sanity began to look like the tirade of a spoiled child. The revolution, I can tell you, was never the same."
Gingrich's complaint resulted in the perception that he was acting in a petty, egotistical manner, and Clinton defended the seating arrangement as a courtesy to Gingrich, the back of the plane being closer to his pickup car.<1> Later, the polls suggested that the event badly damaged Gingrich politically.
The shutdown also influenced the 1996 presidential election. Bob Dole, the Senate Majority Leader, was running for president in 1996. Because of his need to campaign, Dole wanted to solve the budget crisis in January 1996 despite the willingness of other Republicans to continue the shutdown unless their demands were met. It also has been cited as a role in Clinton's successful re-election in 1996.
DeLay writes in his book No Retreat, No Surrender:
"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One... Newt had been careless to say such a thing, and now the whole moral tone of the shutdown had been lost. What had been a noble battle for fiscal sanity began to look like the tirade of a spoiled child. The revolution, I can tell you, was never the same."
Gingrich's complaint resulted in the perception that he was acting in a petty, egotistical manner, and Clinton defended the seating arrangement as a courtesy to Gingrich, the back of the plane being closer to his pickup car.<1> Later, the polls suggested that the event badly damaged Gingrich politically.
The shutdown also influenced the 1996 presidential election. Bob Dole, the Senate Majority Leader, was running for president in 1996. Because of his need to campaign, Dole wanted to solve the budget crisis in January 1996 despite the willingness of other Republicans to continue the shutdown unless their demands were met. It also has been cited as a role in Clinton's successful re-election in 1996.
If we go to the mat, we win. The Republicans will be stealing cash from, and thwarting the desire of, three-quarters of America. It will be a catastrophe for them. We've not had a better chance in ages to crush these swine, and do the right thing at the same time.
This is it, folks. Time to make a stand, not to fucking apologize.
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