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To: tejek who wrote (742612)	9/29/2013 12:27:32 PM
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"The maneuvering of House Republicans has caused considerable anxiety within their party." “I think it’s going to be tough for them. They’re having such difficulty pulling things together,” said Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.), one of several GOP senators who consults frequently with House members. “I don’t know that I have a clear vision how we move through this. And I think the debt ceiling is maybe even more murky.”

To: tejek who wrote (742612)	9/29/2013 12:29:08 PM
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Why GOP Will Lose Fight Over Obamacare David Frum: "All in all, it's hard to see any positive outcome emerging for Republicans from this confrontation. Yet the party is charging forward anyway. Why?" "The short answer is *a breakdown in the party's ability to govern itself. It can't think strategically. Even when pressed to do something overwhelmingly likely to end in disaster, as this shutdown looks likely to do for Republicans, the party has no way to stop itself. It stumbles into fights it cannot win, gets mad, and then in its anger lurches into yet another fight that ends in yet another loss."* John Avlon: "Republicans have lost control of the conservative populist forces that helped them ride to congressional victory in 2010. *These folks are happy to ruin if they cannot rule.* But the real reason the rot of polarisation is setting in is because the rigged system of redistricting has created safe districts where Republican congressmen will only lose their seats if they are challenged from the right in closed partisan primaries... So the GOP congressional leadership is caught in a trap of their own making, *without the ability to govern* responsibly as they not-so-secretly see fit."

To: tejek who wrote (742612)	10/2/2013 3:20:16 PM
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They may state they are willing to live with gov't but their actions say otherwise. Not at all. .they issue edicts and expect them to be obeyed. They refuse to negotiate. They arbitrarily cut gov't spending. They are anti democratic and they only care for what's best for them; not for what's good for the country. Not only is that a fairly inaccurate representation of their actions, it also wouldn't even vaguely amount to support for anarchy even if it was true.