They view that as a win-win though. They get what they want: win. They shut down the government: win. As long as they can keep their base voting for them by blaming it on "the Democrats who are evil and didn't compromise", they'll keep doing this.
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And the more dysfunctional they look, the more it gives the general appearance that government itself is dysfunctional. They’re making the government as dysfunctional as they say it is.
Except the infighting is so bad they can't even get to a place where they're offering a deal to Democrats. That's almost impossible to spin to the positive except to only the most extreme elements.
Let's be honest here, they can come up with the most insane reason this is still the Democrat's fault and their voter base will not think twice about it.
A reason isn't even necessary, insane or otherwise. They'll just say "they caused this. Look what they did," and that will be good enough for a lot of people.
"The democrats stole the shutdown" or something like that.
It doesn't matter. The goal is to just make things worse so they can blame the Democrats before the next election. That's always the goal.
They don't care whose fault it is. Perceived infighting now doesn't matter. They know that they can spin the narrative any way they want for the benefit of their voters in the general election.
Things just need things to be shitty in time for the general election, so they can blame Democrats. Because making things shitty is much easier than fixing things. It's a winning strategy.
I agree with you in sentiment, but historically, it has always gone poorly for Republicans when they cause a shutdown.
I am so very tired of these traitor shitcunts. Wish they’d all fuck off to the great beyond, already.
Republicans want the government dysfunction. It's their political platform.
What a shit show. It would be funny if there were not wars going.
6 Republicans could solve this by putting the Democrats in charge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives
I think that'll probably end up happening, a shutdown would not be good politically for the republicans.
The r’s are eating themselves as they self destruct. It would be funny if it wasn’t hurting america.
Republicans are either going to own the shut down or they are going to own their failure push an insane budget through, maybe both - it's a GOP style win, win either way
If every federal civil servant pledged to donate one dollar to the opposition candidate of McCarthy for every day of shutdown that would be millions of dollars a day.
Or even better. Use the money to buy the house nextdoor to his house.