How Republicans snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
By Chris Cillizza, WashPost, Updated: October 1, 2013
Tuesday should have been a banner day for Congressional Republicans, the day in which sequestration cuts to the federal government were locked in for another few months — a move that would have proved just how committed the GOP was to cutting federal spending and shrinking the debt.
Instead, the government is shuttered. Polling shows Republicans are in line to take the lion’s share of the blame. The party is fighting amongst itself about when and whether to make a deal. Party strategists are (semi) openly fretting about the political danger their side is courting with the shutdown.
“When is a win not a win?,” asked former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis (R). “When it belongs to the GOP. These are constant self-inflicted wounds. We don’t need to learn how to be a good loser. We need to learn to be a good winner.”
How the heck did the party turn what could have (and should have) been a clear political win affirming their baseline commitment to shrinking government and reducing spending into what looks like a political quagmire from which they might struggle to extricate themselves?
(More here.)
Tuesday should have been a banner day for Congressional Republicans, the day in which sequestration cuts to the federal government were locked in for another few months — a move that would have proved just how committed the GOP was to cutting federal spending and shrinking the debt.
Instead, the government is shuttered. Polling shows Republicans are in line to take the lion’s share of the blame. The party is fighting amongst itself about when and whether to make a deal. Party strategists are (semi) openly fretting about the political danger their side is courting with the shutdown.
“When is a win not a win?,” asked former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis (R). “When it belongs to the GOP. These are constant self-inflicted wounds. We don’t need to learn how to be a good loser. We need to learn to be a good winner.”
How the heck did the party turn what could have (and should have) been a clear political win affirming their baseline commitment to shrinking government and reducing spending into what looks like a political quagmire from which they might struggle to extricate themselves?
(More here.)
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