Eric Cantor seems to believe that if Republicans keep hanging tight with their winning position of destroying the economy, the President will cave. Reminder: This is from the folks who brought you “Romney surge”, “unskewed polls” and “Ohio is in the bag”.
CQ Roll Call published a very confident sounding email from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor laying out the Republican strategy for winning. The title of the email is “Current State of Play, Strategy, and Goals,” because nothing says “play” like kids with cancer not getting the help they need because the government is shutdown. #Winning. Naturally their strategy is to blame Democrats and wait for the President to cave.
From Roll Call:
Our Strategy: While no one can predict with certainty how the current shutdown will be resolved, I am confident that if we keep advancing common-sense solutions to the problems created by the shutdown that Senate Democrats and President Obama will eventually agree to meaningful discussions that would allow us to ultimately resolve this impasse. The American people have elected a divided government and they expect us to work together and they will not countenance one party simply refusing to negotiate.
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To achieve this goal of getting the public to blame Democrats, Republicans are going to pass piecemeal items to fund specific things (they don’t mention this but their funding has been at lower levels than agreed upon). Then, when Democrats balk, Republicans can take their whinging to the TV and point fingers as Rome burns.
The President is not going to negotiate policy over hostages like the debt ceiling or Boehner’s shutdown.
He said it, he meant it.
Cantor ought to go ask Osama bin Laden if President Obama means what he says.
Republicans are so busy seeing Obama through the lens of their own hatred and clear prejudice that they don’t see the obvious. This is a man who means what he says. He is not messing around. He rightfully sees the health of our economy as his responsibility to the people of this country. So, while he takes a ton of crap from Republicans personally, he will not tolerate deliberate attempts to destroy our economy and harm American families. What Republicans are pulling is not “negotiating”. They are harming our economy over a tempter tantrum that they lost the election.
Republicans refuse to do their jobs until they have hostages in their hands because they want to get their way, and the people denied them that power by denying them the Senate and the White House.
Obama’s red line is obvious to anyone who’s not blinded by the Republican bubble. Romney surge, anyone?
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