The Idiocy of the Shutdown, in 3 Acts: Map, Thought Experiment, Speech

"Your purpose plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events." Thus spake a previous Republican president. Reelected Republican president; The president's Republican party retaining control of the Senate; and Democrats controlling only one chamber, the House. Then suppose further that Pelosi's newly empowered House Democrats announced that unless George W. Bush agreed to reverse the sweeping tax cuts that had been the signature legislative achievement of his first term, they would refuse to pass a budget so that the federal government could operate, and would threaten a default on U.S. sovereign debt. Lost the presidency by 5 million votes; lost the Senate by a total of 10 million votes; held onto control of the House through favorable districting, while losing the overall House vote by 1.7 million nationwide.

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