Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Please GOP, make our day....

....."Certainly, as Cruz acknowledges, the public outcry over the shutdown was difficult for Republicans. (He mostly attributes this to Clinton’s superior political skills.) But he glosses over the fact that the shutdown sped Clinton on the path to reelection. Indeed, the shutdown played a role in a rather amazing suckerpunch at the 1996 State of the Union address.

During the speech, Clinton singled out for praise a man seated next to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton — Social Security Administration worker Richard Dean, who had survived the Oklahoma City bombing and rescued three people from the devastated Murrah Federal Building.

As Republicans stood and applauded Dean’s heroism, Clinton pulled out the knife, recounting how Dean was forced out of his office during the first shutdown and had to work without pay in the second one. “Never, ever, shut the federal government down again,” the president scolded.

(Then-House Minority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was so upset at Clinton’s gambit that he rewatched the speech on C-SPAN at 1:30 a.m. and literally screamed at the television, according to the 1997 book “Mirage,” by George Hager and Eric Pianin.)

After that, Clinton never lagged in the polls again."



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/ted-cruzs-claim-that-the-1995-96-government-shutdown-was-good-for-the-gop/2013/08/03/9cd6085e-fbbe-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_blog.html


8 comments:

Flying Junior said...

The government shutdown also cemented the utter disgrace that marked the career of Newt Gingrich.

If it hurt as much as it did in 1994 when the economy was sailing over the moon at 45˚ trajectory, think how much more damage it would cause to our fragile economic recovery, families of veterans already hurting, a national park system struggling with maintenance costs, federal employees furloughed, a thousand other costs and delays. Complete and utter havoc and chaos.

Republicans like to say the government shut down and nobody even noticed because they're fucking stupid!

Infidel753 said...

Someone should send this article to every Republican Congressman.

Leslie Parsley said...

Nothing like a demagogue to get us all invigorated again, eh Sue? Sharing you know where.

Flying Junior said...

Well... It's a shallow victory. Brown people will overtake Texas. Another ten years, we can certainly count on them.

I recently read a commenter on Shaw's blog lament the eventual demise of the 50% majority that whites now.... I can't say enjoy, because I like just about every brown person that I have met. That mostly includes Mexicans. It also includes Guatemalans, San Salvadoreans, Indian-Americans, Sri Lanka-Americans, Thailand-Americans, Vietnam-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans and mostly everybody from South America. Don't forget Iran and Iraq. Turkish? Why would anybody from Turkey move here? The point is I love everybody. The sooner the white majority disappears the better to me.

Flying Junior said...

Hello... Knocks on glass.

Well, since Ted's lovely clown face still adorns this post, allow me to reveal what a dangerous and sick individual this maniac from Texas truly is. It would take a very strong stomach to watch this past two minutes or so. From ultra-conservative Warrior Woman who completly buys into this stand your ground crap and how it couldn't possibly be racist.

http://warriorwoman91.com/2013/10/30/ted-cruz-tells-trayvons-mother-why-stand-your-ground-laws-cant-possibly-be-racist/

Absolutely disgusting. What a filthy, evil, small man.

Dervish Sanders said...

FJ: The sooner the white majority disappears the better to me.

I agree, FJ. Also, what will the Republicans do then? Sure, they will try to disenfranchise as many Democratic voters as possible, but I don't think that will be enough to win them that many elections. Even if they do eventually change, what they are doing now will harm them. And I'm looking forward to that... Republicans losing election after election.

Flying Junior said...

Happy Thanksgiving Sue,

Remember! The cool people don't blog on holidays, so no faceblogging!

Hope all is well with you and yours.

Always be thankful!

FJ

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