Re: Government DeFault is hype
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Postulating Postulator.
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Date: October 16, 2013 08:45AM
I thought about this, and then I remembered what happened after some of the prisoners at Gitmo were waterboarded.
Evidently, they started talking freely about everything. Just spilled their guts. This is because the torture inflicted by the United States gave them a kind of "permission" to do so. They had resisted as long as they could before they finally just couldn't take it any more; they had done their duty to Allah, and now it was time to talk.
This is what I think the Republicans will do. They will take it right up to the very edge of the cliff and maybe even let it start to go over the brink before they finally say, "Okay, we did everything we could to stop Obamacare, but it wasn't enough, and we're not willing to let the whole thing crash and burn, because we're grown-ups and not anarchists."
Of course, it could be that they do let the whole thing crash and burn, which may very well be the strategy of Ted Cruz* and his Tea Party cronies. The phrase "We destroyed the village in order to save it." somehow springs to mind.
*I actually think Ted Cruz doesn't have an exit strategy, or he didn't when he started this whole mess.