Yes.
Poor media coverage has become the universal healthcare of the GOP. Anything that paints the GOP/conservatives in a negative light is the fault of the alleged slanted media. You commented yesterday in a thread about Sandra Fluke. I'm not trying to derail your thread into a Fluke referendum but I mention it because it happened. Anyway, Political Chick and several others can't refer to her in any way except using the S**T word. If a 20 year old rapper used the word as liberally as a lot of your friends used it, he'd probably be looked upon as a thug. Politically...what do you expect women to do when behavior like this is not only tolerated but celebrated? Poor media coverage has nothing to do with it.
Outside of more debt, and 3 months from now another extension scenario...just like the others in the past....not paid for. Candy, I will throw that right back at you.....what could possible be the downside effects if we paid for it?
There are no downside effects if it were paid for. None whatsoever. Except while you're arguing about it, families are suffering and they are blaming the GOP for the hold-up. I'm sure the media will be blamed once more.
What seems to be lost on the GOP is that you forget there are elections until the even numbered years present themselves and you wait until Memorial day in those years to start campaigning.
If I were quarterbacking the GOP, I'd call the bluff for 2014. Everything outside of the issues lines up perfectly for the GOP...
1. More Senatorial Dem seats up for grabs
2. The historic upswing in the midterms for the party not in the White House.
Then you add in the befuddled roll out of Obamacare, the lie about keeping your policy that Mr. Obama told, the still sluggish economy....All these are issues on top of the built-in advantages...
So what you should do is tell the Dems that it will be paid for with Defense cuts. Take the bat...the one that they are going to hit you with...out of their hands.
Pass the immigration bill which is going to do nothing to stop illegal immigration. Again, take that bat...the one that they are going to hit you with...out of their hands.
Give up some ground now to win a lot of ground later. You're giving the other side massive amounts of ammunition.