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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Mon Oct 7, 2013, 10:42 AM Oct 2013

Impasse - Star Trek "No Win Scenario" For Real. [View all]

This impasse has all the flavor of the Star Trek "No Win Scenario". Obama can compromise and the GOP will shut everything down by cutting spending on everything they don't like and ending the ACA. Or you can hold firm and they will shut down the economy. Either way the GOP will do great harm to the country. Cutting spending and giving tax cuts to the rich will at least cause a recession.

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Impasse - Star Trek "No Win Scenario" For Real. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Oct 2013 OP

Kobayashi Maru? stevenleser Oct 2013 #1

Great Minds, Steve! nt msanthrope Oct 2013 #3

Further to Msanthrope's point, we have already won here. All we have to do is wait and do nothing. stevenleser Oct 2013 #7

Exactly - The No Win Scenario Cannot Be Won Unless You Cheat. TheMastersNemesis Oct 2013 #8

And this is how BumRushDaShow Oct 2013 #15

brilliant... Blue_Tires Oct 2013 #16

It's the Kobayashi Maru. And Kirk beat it. nt msanthrope Oct 2013 #2

He did atreides1 Oct 2013 #5

He did not cheat. He simply refused to accept the limitations accorded him. nt msanthrope Oct 2013 #6

Obama can put in signing statement and then let them sue office, but only after economy crashes uponit7771 Oct 2013 #4

It's a game of chicken. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2013 #9

Time for Obama unilaterally to act to insure full-faith and credit of the USA JCMach1 Oct 2013 #10

Eventually the klingons will run out of ammo. DetlefK Oct 2013 #11

I Sure Hope You Are Right TheMastersNemesis Oct 2013 #12

the GOP isnt like the klingons rdking647 Oct 2013 #14

there is an option rdking647 Oct 2013 #13