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2016 Postmortem

kairos12

(12,842 posts) Fri Oct 11, 2013, 09:57 PM Oct 2013

Advice to Boner

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/gop-activists-john-boehner-government-shutdown-98199.html?hp=l1

snip:

GOP activists to John Boehner: Don’t cave

GOP activists also advise: Titanic Captain full speed ahead, Steve you can't build that fangled puter machine in a garage, hey Coyote ACME products will eventually work, Rmoney the polls lie-that 47 percent thing is no biggee, and the wheel is over-rated.

Boner of Orange, please proceed.

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Advice to Boner (Original Post) kairos12 Oct 2013 OP

Hmm ... isn't "turning the bow toward" a tidal wave considered a way to (hopefully) survive one? zbdent Oct 2013 #1

In the case of the Titanic a head on ram into the iceberg may have saved the ship. gordianot Oct 2013 #2

zbdent

(35,392 posts)

1. Hmm ... isn't "turning the bow toward" a tidal wave considered a way to (hopefully) survive one?

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 10:03 PM

Oct 2013

Maybe Boner is thinking that is the way to solve the current problem, too ....

gordianot

(15,233 posts)

2. In the case of the Titanic a head on ram into the iceberg may have saved the ship.

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 10:46 PM

Oct 2013

At least one compartment would have flooded and the ship may have survived as opposed to multiple compartment floods as the ship side swiped the iceberg.

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