2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf the GOP shuts down the government will there be a Koch coup?
That is a fear I have. With the media in the GOP pocket. The narrative will be that it is the fault of the President and the Dem's the government is shut down and only the GOP can save the country. The GOP are geniuses with their talking points and they have access to billions that can be spent everywhere to flood the tv, radio and Internet.
I hope I am wrong but these are scary times.
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)they could easily turn our nation over the the Tea Party, i.e. the Koch Brothers and their billionaire cronies.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)They have no business in budgetary/debt matters.
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)And because they can pretty much do whatever they want to do (as in Bush V. Gore).
onenote
(42,700 posts)Details please.
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)Although I've heard that right-wingers would impeach him if he tried to apply it.
p.s. I'm not a constitutional scholar so please don't take this as authoritative.
onenote
(42,700 posts)not to a government shutdown. One crisis at a time.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)The House controls the money.... They cant control the money and hold the AHA as ransom. Most people know this and will become even more evident when it is shut down.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)kimbutgar
(21,141 posts)I am not crazy, while you're reading this article check out the others on this excellent site you might learn something new.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)They will bolster our position in the Senate, and take a huge step towards destroying themselves as a national party.
This is not the GOP juggernaut party of Regan or Bush. This is a pathetic pack of yokels that believe in their own propaganda more than life itself.
Hell on earth is coming to this TeaPublican party.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)With the districts so lopsidedly-gerrymandered.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)The House keeps screwing around and no checks will make it anyone's mailbox. Then we'll see just how popular all those TeaPublicans really are.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)They also funded the DLC (dont know about the Turd Way).
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)The Kochs are stupid, they are throwing good money after bad the stupid fucks.
Their Teabaggers are going down in flames, and will take the entire right wing noise machine along with them.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)The Kochs have been and will continue to be the crazy extremist fringe.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)start to go after the Koch Brothers.
How expansive would it be to put on an ad campaign about astro-turfing?
onenote
(42,700 posts)The reporting on the fight over shutting down the government has overwhelmingly delivered the message that the Republicans are taking, and will take, the blame.