The one virtue that comes out of the federal government shutdown, which cost the Gross Domestic Product $1.5 billion a day, a total of $24 billion for 16 days, is that it has convinced GOP leaders that the tactic will not work,
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated that he will NOT allow another government shutdown, as he is well aware how it has hurt the Republican brand, with nothing gained by the action. He will face a Tea Party opponent in the Kentucky Senate primary, including the opposition of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Ted Cruz, but this should make a good case for opposition to those Tea Party lunatics who have no concern about the effect on the American economy of what they supported.
Speaker John Boehner has not stated quite the same sentiments, but it is clear that he will not support such a looney concept the next time, as he ended up backing away at the brink of the crisis.
Yes, McConnell and Boehner are both to be condemned for their handling of the situation, but at the end, both were ultimately responsible when push came to shove, and they and the Establishment Republicans have learned a hard lesson,
With the help of Wall Street, the Tea Party lunatics will face challenges in the primaries from mainstream Republican conservatives, and hopefully, some will lose their seats either to these establishment types, or the seats will swing over to the Democrats, with the chance of a Democratic takeover growing, and the likelihood of a Republican takeover of the US Senate a less likely scenario, as a result of the government shutdown and debt ceiling debacle.
As Barack Obama declared, it is time for serious action on immigration, tax reform, and the farm bill, instead of wasting time on what is ultimately a lost cause, the destruction of ObamaCare by repeal, which is NOT going to happen.
Anyone who seriously thinks the Tea Party Movement will triumph in 2014 and elect Ted Cruz President in 2016, with a Republican House and Senate, is certainly using hallucinatory drugs, and needs to be hospitalized for mental observation!
Or they could just be STUPID. I have noticed the t baggers I have read or communicated with are simply stupid. No drugs, just plain stupid.
Hello Professor,
This comes as no surprise to me as history does repeat itself. The last Republican shut down against then President Clinton, did not bode well for them back then either.
This just goes to prove the old adage, “Those whom do not learn the lessons of History, are doomed to repeat the same mistakes by those who came before them.”
For me this just demonstrates the level of ignorance and lack of knowledge from those who identify with Tea Party.
Let’s hope for a purging of this shameful segment come this next election.
I just saw Ted Cruz on the political program, “This Week,” trying to throw out any, and different, reasons to justify his actions and statements supporting the shutdown, blaming the President and even many in his own Party for the cause of the shutdown, hoping at least one piece of crap he was throwing would stick to the wall.
Yes, everyone else is to blame except him. Well we all can surmise and see narcissism is alive and well being represented with this liar .
What a pathetic example to be representing others.
Engineer, I have said, and will continue to say, that Ted Cruz is the most dangerous demagogue among us, and notice his resemblance in appearance and manner to Joseph McCarthy. He is a nightmare for the Republican Party and for America, and needs to be censured by his colleagues in the Senate, as McCarthy was in 1954!
Speaking as a Republican, I think many of my Party should be censured over this fiasco.