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YOU'RE WELCOME It's been one month since the shutdown ended: The talking heads should be thanking Ted Cruz and Mike Lee
It’s Nov. 16, 2013, and the partial government shutdown ended one month ago today.
In those four weeks, and the two prior, everything conservatives said would happen has happened. What’s more, the Democrats’ united stand against them has turned into a retreat — and is primed to become a rout — as they amend Obamacare’s disastrous rollout, President Barack Obama apologizes for his failures, and electorally vulnerable Democrats break ranks and flee.
Hell, even the polls that D.C.’s Republican pundits shrieked, wept and clawed over show the Grand Old Party has bounced back while the Democrats have fallen behind. Because, in the end, real people simply weren’t affected by the shutdown, so they won’t vote on it — a distinction Obamacare does not share.
It’s clear now that the whole shutdown thing could have been avoided if Mr. Obama had been willing to bend on his signature health-care law — something reality has since forced him to do, and something he will likely have to continue to do — instead of accusing the Republicans of being “terrorists” who are holding the country captive.
And rather than crashing, as the president predicted, the private sector survived just fine without government. Obama’s specific prediction — “I mean whatever effect Obamacare might have on the economy is far less than even a few days of government shutdown” — turned out to be precisely wrong. (VIDEO: It’s been two weeks and still no apocalypse, you guys)
Finally, the events of the last month have shown that Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee were correct to make a final stand against the law, and it’s really the president and his policies that are terrorizing the country.
Cruz and Lee needlessly diverted attention away from the ObamaCare rollout debacle.
In that sense, they became the unwittingly allies of Obama during the crucial month of October.
The serious anti-ObamaCare forces lost precious time and momentum due to the foolhardy, attention-hogging, antics of Senators Cruz and Lee.
Also, their nonsensical grandsatanding over a government shutdown gambit which was doomed from the outset, created dissension within the GOP ranks, much to the delight of both Democrats and far-right wackos, who share one conjoining passion....seeing Republicans fail.
B.S. The author is right. Cruz lit the fire on this thing and stoked it until it was white hot. You seriously think the media Kool-Aid drinkers and spineless weenie like McCain would have been pointing out the failures of Obamacare without this prelude?
Sorry, we are where we are right now because of Cruz.
PERIOD.
“When the government fears the people there is liberty; When the people fear the government there is tyranny."