The Seditious Koch Bender: Why 54,000 People Are Calling for Arrests Over GOP Shutdown

[DallasNE]

16. It Has Been Reported That 2 Days After

The 2012 election that disgraced Reagan AG Ed Meese conducted a meeting where the plan to shut down the government over the Affordable Care Act. The first glitch in the plan they hatched was when the Senate passed a budget so the plan for the GOP was to abandon regular order, as the 1974 Budget Control Act requires by having Boehner not appoint House member for the joint budget committee. The Senate 20 times requested Boehner to comply with regular order and name those House members. Interestingly, nobody in the media bothered to ask Boehner why he was refusing to comply with the requirement of the Budget Control Act so they have some culpability in this as well. The idea was to have the fight not over a government shutdown but the debt ceiling where they felt Obama would be compelled to fold. Well, they got a few things wrong and the shutdown ended up happening before the debt ceiling was hit and the Republicans rightfully were blamed for the shutdown. So bitterness prevails, as evidenced by Sen. Sessions telling the President he can't stand the sight of his face, and we are heading for a new shutdown in January. Oddly, Republicans bent on destroying the federal government are unaffected by polls showing Congressional Republicans having a 22% favorable rating. Even traditional rank and file Republicans have abandon the GOP on this issue yet they trudge on. And to think, someone so disgraced as Ed Meese was calling the shots. The Reagan revolution has now come full circle.