If I was an Obama supporter I'd have little to be happy about, so, yeah, I'd bump these threads because it's better than talking about 7% unemployment for 5 straight years.
So now do you own the economy?
Naw.
And the 5 straight years thing is incorrect too.
Unemployment bumped up to 10% in 2009..and then dropped to around 7% before the Tea Party got into congress in 2010. That's when everything grinded to a halt. Even so, Obama economic policies still were slowly decreasing the number of people seeking unemployment checks until this shutdown.
You own what you own. And stopping the government has consequences.
He sort of amplifies my point though;
The GOP had it lined up beautifully for 2014 then they pulled this crazy stunt. It would be much better for them--politically--if they just let Obamacare and the economy tied to it falter; right? So you have to wonder they they went to the wall over this minor thing in an off year....
Something tells me that somewhere in the bowels of the GOP headquarters, there is a study about Obamacare and that it's going to work. Otherwise; what was the point to try to get the Dems to abandon it.
Surely the GOP knows the history of midterms and how it almost always favors the Party not in the Oval Office.
Surely the GOP knows that shutting down the government is not viewed well by the voters from 1995.
Surely the GOP knows that if Obamacare were to fail and the economy with it that it will be owned by the Dems
Surely no one is going to contest that either party is so in love with the American people that this was a "people first" initiative.
I'm betting they looked at it; how popular it is going to be when fully implemented; and decided this was their last hope to put the genie back in the bottle.