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Purplehazed

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10. Certainly Republicans bear responsibility

Reply to TomCADem (Reply #8)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 12:02 PM

Feb 2013

They should pay dearly in the midterm elections for being entrenched in ideology over the realities of running a nation. However, if there is a successful outcome to this budget debacle, were not going to give a ticker tape parade for the Republicans/teabaggers. The White will, and rightly so, take the credit. Similarly if there is a failure, the executive branch will have to accept accountability and thus be ultimately responsible.

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