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To: TideGlider who wrote (746964)	10/16/2013 12:48:20 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580266

Conservatives lost the shutdown showdown with President Obama because they were vastly outnumbered. Not only do Democrats control the White House and Senate, but probably less than half of the 232 Republicans in the GOP-controlled House were truly spoiling for what some conservatives hoped would be an epic battle. References to the Alamo, of course, are de rigueur because of Ted Cruz, the fiery first-term senator from Texas who prodded reluctant Republican leaders to stand up for a lost cause or face the threat of a primary challenge. Cruz himself has referred publicly to the 1836 battle, most notably last spring when he opposed Obama’s choice to lead the CIA. Yet the Alamo was a terrible and unnecessary defeat for Texans striving for independence from Mexico. The small number of ill-fated defenders could have left the fort to fight another day when the odds were in their favor. Instead commander William Travis chose to fight to the death, and death it was for all the fort’s 180 or so holdouts.