2016 Postmortem
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CLEVELAND, Tenn. The premise was good, said Bob McIntire, 53, an insurance executive here in deep red Bradley County, where the local Democrats would have trouble filling up a phone booth.
The payoff, well, that was the problem.
On talk radio and in the conservative blogosphere, the bipartisan vote on Wednesday to reopen the government without defunding President Obamas health care law was being excoriated as an abject surrender and betrayal by spineless establishment Republicans. But for glum and frustrated conservative voters on Thursday around breakfast tables in eastern Tennessee, in the shadow of a military base in Colorado Springs and on the streets of suburban Philadelphia, it was as much a surrender to reality as to Democratic demands.
To Mr. McIntire, that reality was a media environment in which conservatives dont get a fair hearing, a unified and shrewd Democratic opposition, and a Congress hopelessly compromised by Washington deal making. For Matias Elliott, a cabdriver in Colorado Springs, the reality was the harm being done to the nations military and to the local economy. For Jean Naples, a homemaker in Doylestown, Pa., it was the despicable way the shutdown disrupted funerals for military personnel killed overseas and the way her husbands medical supply business had suffered a severe cash-flow problem during the shutdown.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/us/from-the-right-despair-anger-and-disillusion.html?partner=rss
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)Listen to RW Hate Radio, watch Fox News, read crazy wingnut websites, try and force the Second Coming, send stupid people to Congress. What could possibly go wrong?
BellaKos
(318 posts)Romney lost?
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)I'm sick and tired of hearing from angry members of the GOP. What did the Dems get out of all this? I'm tired of Republican administrations running up the debt and then when we get a Democratic administration, the nations always broke. Ronald Reagan, GHWB, and GWB all experience recessions during their admin and were able to use stimulus to jump start the economy. The Defense budget exploded under the Reagan and Bush administrations and the GOP said nary a word. President Obama inherits the worse economy since the Great Depression and he gets pilloried for bailing out the banks and Wall St. Not exactly a Democratic power play, but when the Treasury Secretary claims the banks are on the verge of failing without Gov't intervention, it's understandable no one wanted to take a chance.
Obama gets blamed for us still being in two wars, but what did the GOP do to help expedite the end of those wars. In fact, they fought Obama tooth and nail, and now the TEA Party asks why are we still in Afghanistan. Because you can't packup personal and equipment and bring them out by land through dangerous territory overnight. But make no mistake, we are leaving Afghanistan. If McCain had won the WH in 2008, we'd still be in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Egypt. And no one in the GOP would be saying anything about the budget, or playing games with the debt ceiling.
mrgorth
(3,431 posts)Fuck every one of them that was interviewed for this column. Just fuck them.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)JEAN NAPLES, a homemaker in Doylestown, Pa.
Well cry me an effin river, Jean from Doylestown, Pa. You are what's wrong.