Republicans are LOSING! (Page 2)

Got gloat?

What do you care what the Republicans do?

Who gives a darn what they do to save their "brand"?

When will it be about the country again? Ever?

I have voted, primarily, along R party lines for years. I'm with the others who said next election NO INCUMBENTS.

My husband and I are both feds but are "essential" so we are at work, seeing the difficulty this is causing to the people around us. The sound bites all talk about the 800,000 furloughed employees. What they don't say is that there are approximately 2.1 million civilian federal employees who don't know when they will see another regular paycheck (we get 1/2 a check next week for the final week of September). That number doesn't even include the additional hardships to contractors and other industries that rely on federal funds. In NM we have Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs planning to shut down next week. They emloy about 20,000 people between them.

Not to mention the fact that this is on the heels of many feds having been forced to take several furlough days in the last few months.

This IS going to hurt our economy or, at the very least stall any improvement. 

awwww someone's a sore loser.

was it about the country before y'all were "losing" I seem to recall a ton of talk about what a jerk Obama was.

Obama is not a jerk.....he's a joke.  That hasn't changed just because the Republicans decided to act like idiots.

Great Thoughts, but wrong thread!  Already have an ObamaCare thread. 

I'm NOT gloating about anything.  No one, ZERO people, know where my Political side starts and my 'forum banter' ends.  So lets end the "gloat" and "sore loser" personal comments and put them aside.  The FACTS are the Republican Party currently has a Public Opinion Polling problem, the likes of which have never been seen since....well, since Public Opinion Polling.  I laid out my disclaimer in line #1 of the thread.   This is a news story; so....let's discuss.

You make it sound like the Democrats are doing awesome and the Republicans should strive to be more like them and it's all because of the shutdown.  I think they both have a polling problem and have for a long time.  Just because one sucks a little more than the other doesn't mean the other should suck in the same way the less sucky one sucks.  lol

Here's a couple of links that show the historical polls for both parties.  Both have been polling horribly for a long time and you're premise that nobody's had numbers this low "since public opinion polling".  You might want to sort through the various polls of the Dems.  According to the CBSNews poll they were lower as recent as 11/6/11  :-P

http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_rep.htm

http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_dem.htm

#throwthebumsout

 Just because one sucks a little more than the other doesn't mean the other should suck in the same way the less sucky one sucks.  

Well, that's just a little bit of awesome right there, Tony.

The funny part is how true it is!

Not True!  YOU, sir. Not ME! Continue to mention the Democrats.  I never brought them up.  Next month, we could well be speaking of the Democrats in the same way.  But on THIS DAY, the headline is about your Republicans.  And meanwhile Ted Cruz continues his love affair with the microphone.

Well YOU.... Have a great weekend.  

See, there you go again talking about things you don't know about. Find a single post I ever said I was ever a Republican and I'll give you a $1000.

It's not about being a sore looser, it's the BS partisan politics that is destroying this country. The very same thing that caused this ridiculous mess we are in, and the only thing the OP can comment on is Republicans LOOSING. It's ridiculous, the whole mess.... including your comment.

This isn't a game. It's the future of our country we're talking about. If one side "wins" we all lose.What has happened besides this absurd partisan political game is there is also an utter lack of respect for each other, both personally and for the office they hold. We've gone from respectful disagreement to calling each other terrorists and hostages. It's a disgrace.

I"m still waiting for someone to put a picture together with Nancy, Harry, Barack and Charlie Sheen with the caption "Winning" and big smiles on their faces. 

The Congress has passed bills I believe to open the parks, monuments and some other matters but they sit on Harry Rieds desk,,,,, F'n republicans. 

Somebody posted this on FB last night.  I thought it was an interesting perspective on the whole thing.

I still find it interesting how both sides blame the other for "shutting it down".  I know it's politics and that's what they have to do with anything bad that happens.  That's why I found the article interesting because the House never voted to shut the government down and didn't shut it down.  They passed a bill that fully funded everything, with exception of the ACA.  In the same way you mentioned the Republicans proudly standing shoulder-to-shoulder the Democrats could do the same stating that the ACA is so important to America that they shut down the government until the Republicans give them a bill fully funding the ACA.  It's still just finger pointing on both sides so I'm not in the partisan camp of it being all Democrats fault either.  I just don't think you can fairly say it's all the Republicans fault either.  They have divergent opinions on what should be funded and the Democrats appear to be unwilling to negotiate or compromise form anything but a "clean bill" that funds everything they want.

I still go back to my statement that this is the kind of stuff that happens when you pass a major legislation such as the ACA without any support at all from the other party.  The Republicans didn't support it then and they don't support it now (big shock).  Did the Dems just assume that they'd always have both houses for the rest of eternity?

I'm personally a fan of a balanced budget.  So, if we feel the ACA is important enough to fund then we have to cut it from somewhere else or raise taxes to keep the deficit in check.

Or as the facts show (don't let that get in the way) if Obama feels that his job killing health care plan (which really has nothing to do with lowering health care costs) is so important that if it is not included in the budget the country can be shut down. 

Obama has on more than one occasion and this is just another example of his Chicago politics, if i don't get my way the house can burn down and I"ll blame you for it.