Shutdown-loving Republicans just can't get enough

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Pro-Shutdown Republicans Embrace Strategy That Failed in 2013
They insist voters will blame Democrats, but that isn't the way it worked out two years ago.


(Bloomberg) Republicans who want to shut the down the federal government rather than provide $500 million in funding to Planned Parenthood insist that their party won't be punished for having the courage of its anti-abortion convictions.

They say the millions of Americans inconvenienced by the closing of national parks and delays of services (not to mentioned missed paychecks for federal workers) won't blame Republicans for refusing to pass a federal funding bill that contains money for the women's health care services provider. Instead, the theory goes, voters will blame the Democratic president, who plans to veto the bill if it doesn't include money for Planned Parenthood. (Bloomberg Philanthropies provides financial support for the group.)

“On the Planned Parenthood issue, the people who are threatening a shutdown is Barack Obama and his allies in the Senate. ... The Republicans are going to shut down the government? No, we're not. We are in support of funding the government fully, just not giving any more money to this one organization,” Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, a Florida senator, said on Sean Hannity's radio show last week. “They're the ones shutting it down.” ..............(more)

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-09-22/pro-shutdown-republicans-embrace-strategy-that-failed-in-2013

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1. Rarely is the question asked...

"Is our Republican children learning yet?" lifted from George W. Bush's Collected Wit and Wisdom.

[Shrike47]

2. They always say the Dems are the ones shutting it down and nobody ever buys it.

But they don't learn.