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In reply to the discussion: Republicans now worried they will lose the house in 2014 [View all]haele
(12,640 posts)Their districts are still safe so long as the teahadists, corporate stooges and media whores are holding onto community purse strings and they can manage to keep stimulus jobs tamped down - their own position as congress-critters may not be so safe, but there will still be a pubbie in most of those districts.
Shutting down the government just increases fear and anxiety, which is what the right feeds off.
If a good stimulus package manages to make it through congress and get implemented by the end of 2013, the GOP might be in trouble, even if "the debt" seems to be high, because when people start to see that things are getting better for them, personally, they are much less influenced by fear and craziness and red areas that have a bit of a maroon tinge may turn more purple as the months go on.
Attacks from the Right are not going to hurt the GOP in the short turn. It's advances on the Left, a better standard of living for the citizenry in general, especially for those who are on the margins or falling between the cracks, that hurts them.
Haele