tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499771266402854669.post1500634263988939434..comments2024-02-08T01:44:24.272-05:00Comments on ModeratePoli: The GOP's big risk that backfiredModeratePolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01721945380057992971noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499771266402854669.post-19691533188059431502012-11-19T18:56:52.435-05:002012-11-19T18:56:52.435-05:00No, I'm not the first one with the Groundhog D...No, I'm not the first one with the Groundhog Day comparison. <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/america-s-groundhog-day-the-2012-election" rel="nofollow">The Examiner</a>, a used tissue that repeated St. Lucie voter fraud charges, had it on Nov. 7. There's a difference. The Examiner thinks the voters are making the mistake and being sent back to repeat it until they get it right. I think the elected politician are in the Bill Murray role, and we the voters are the cosmic force making them do it over.ModeratePolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01721945380057992971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499771266402854669.post-75183329900527519122012-11-19T18:31:21.655-05:002012-11-19T18:31:21.655-05:00@Anon, you make an excellent point. The GOP holdin...@Anon, you make an excellent point. The GOP holding on to the House is a kind of punishment, or a sentence to work with those devils on the other side. It's the perfect kind of punishment that fits the crime so well. <br /><br />I know! It's Groundhog Day! I've got to see whether I'm the first person to publish this!<br />ModeratePolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01721945380057992971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499771266402854669.post-18385471781466070452012-11-19T17:26:32.155-05:002012-11-19T17:26:32.155-05:00To a certain extent, the GOP's holding the Hou...To a certain extent, the GOP's holding the House is punishment, too. They can't stand on their so-called principles any longer because they have to vote for something they don't want, or don't vote for anything and get what they don't want as a default.<br /><br />All-in or fold is not a pleasant situation to put yourself in. But that's what they force on themselves in order to force the Dems' hand and avoid the tax-incresae-time-bomb they created a decade earlier.<br /><br />You can see them squirming to find a way out of the hand now that they've lost it, but Obama and the Dems would have to be fools to let them do so now. With the Dems in charge of the Senate and White House, the automatic spending cuts can be held disproportionate against the GOP priorities in 100 different ways, and the automatic tax increases will almost certainly only be temporary if the GOP does nothing to stop them now. Then, they'll get the blame for letting them go bye-bye, and no credit for reinstating them under duress. If the Dems had won the House, the GOP could just start calling the Dems tax raisers again, and blame them for everything. Not now, however.<br /><br />Is the GOP tamed? Probably not. But they have to behave for a little while even though their House majority is secure for two years (at least). They have no leverage to get ANY of their policy preferences maintained, but they had them in place for far longer than they deserved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com