Article describes how the GOP used the threat of national catastrophe that they themselves wanted to avoid at all costs to push Democrats to cave once again. Tax increases? Gone. Clean debt ceiling bill? Never happened. Entitlement programs protected? Nope. The Democrats basically entered the fight already blinking because to not blink in the face of national default strikes people as lunacy. But that's exactly the tactic the GOP employed and somehow it worked.
The question remains, will the American people hold the GOP accountable for crushing ideas through our political system that a majority don't support? If there was ever something to motivate Americans to go to the polls and send these people home, it should be this psychotic power grab. Sure they may get the victory in this debate, but they may all get voted out of office after dragging the GOP name through the mud. Every time Boehner mentions how the American people won't stand for X or Y, I feel a little ill. As an American, I absolutely would have accepted compromises he dismissed out of hand, and I don't think I'm the exception.
I've come to realize that I don't appreciate many members of Congress speaking on my behalf because they are either too dishonest or too stupid to do so.
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