Well the GOP has been dealt a winning hand, where the Obama\/Reid shutdown is concerned. If they simply stand pat and play out their existing hand, they and the nation at large, wins. Negotiating in this case is like drawing a card, when you are holding that royal flush. It\u2019s the worst thing you can do.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s look at the facts (and to be more than fair, we\u2019ve used left leaning sources whenever possible). This is the GOP\u2019s Royal Flush.<\/p>\n
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- A-Spades:<\/strong>\u00a0Recent polls (CNN<\/a>,\u00a0CBS<\/a>,\u00a0AP<\/a>) show that well over half of Americans now oppose Obamacare.<\/li>\n
- K-Spades:<\/strong>\u00a0AP<\/a>\u00a0now places Obama\u2019s favorable numbers at a mere 37% and dropping. That\u2019s not a whole lot better than\u00a0Richard Nixon\u2019s favorables<\/a>, on the day he resigned from office. Sure, that same poll shows that the approval rating for\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0of Congress (Republican and Democrat) is only 5%. But when you look at individual ratings, you find that those like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and a few others at the head of the defund or delay movement buck this trend and actually have remarkably high favorability numbers. It\u2019s only Democrats and those Republicans who don\u2019t keep their campaign promises, whose numbers are scraping bottom\u2026 people like Boehner, McConnell, Ryan, and McCain, to name just a few.<\/li>\n
- Q-Spades:<\/strong>\u00a0It has just been revealed that the government\u00a0spent $634 million<\/a>\u00a0to design the Obamacare website and it doesn\u2019t work. Much larger sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have been built for much less and they worked from day one. As one technology reviewer put it, \u201cIf that much money were spent for a website in the private sector, you would expect it to read your bloody mind.\u201d But this one doesn\u2019t work at all. Even CNN is reporting it. In fact, CNN\u2019s\u00a0Wolf Blitzer advised<\/a>\u00a0that Obama should take the advise of many Republicans and delay implementation of Obamacare for a year, to get the bugs out of the system. That\u2019s from CNN!<\/li>\n
- J-Spades:<\/strong>\u00a0Huge numbers of working Americans are seeing their insurance costs skyrocket under Obamacare at the same time that many small businesses across the USA are\u00a0cutting their full time employees back to 36-hour part-time employees, to avoid Obamacare penalties. So as a direct result of Obamacare, millions of mostly low or middle wage workers will be earning 10% less income per week.\u00a0This group tends to be young, hourly workers, whose current insurance costs have been nominal, since they as a group, tend to be healthy. But it\u2019s precisely this group of people who are seeing their insurance costs skyrocket, under Obamacare.\u00a0One waitress reported that her Obamacare premium would leave her a choice of putting a roof over her head, eating or paying the much higher Obamacare premium. Contract (1099) workers, who provide their own insurance, are now seeing\u00a0their insurance companies dropping them and offering them \u201cObamacare-qualified\u201d policies at more than three times their current rates, with the same deductible they have today. It\u2019s clear that Obamacare is seriously hurting working Americans.<\/li>\n
- 10-Spades:<\/strong>\u00a0As the Obama\/Reid shutdown drags on and people aren\u2019t feeling any pain, more and more of them are beginning to realize that we don\u2019t need that much from government, after all. But since most Republicans already realize that fact, this realization hits Democrats hardest. After all, you do know what they call a Democrat who realizes that we can get along better with a smaller government, don\u2019t you?\u2026 A \u201cRepublican.\u201d The longer the shutdown drags on, the more Democrats will reach this conclusion and Obama and the Democrat Party can\u2019t afford for that to happen. In fact, this is precisely why Obama is so desperately trying to make the shutdown hurt, by spending more to close open air monuments, the ocean and other such nonsense, than it would cost to just leave them alone. He is\u00a0frantically trying to keep liberals from realizing that they can get along quite well without much of what government does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That\u2019s the GOP\u2019s royal flush.<\/p>\n
But it doesn\u2019t end there. As if to raise the ante, jokes about Obama and Obamacare have become a staple for Jay Leno and other talk show hosts, even on typically left leaning networks. It seems that you can\u2019t turn on any talk show without hearing some joke about Obama or Obamacare. But these jokes are much more biting than those about Clinton, Bush or even Nixon.<\/p>\n
Folks, this shutdown battle is a lock for the GOP\u2026\u00a0that is, as long as Boehner, McConnell, and the GOP leadership don\u2019t draw to their already pat hand.<\/strong>\u00a0All they have to do is \u201cNothing\u201d and the Democrats will have to come to them.\u00a0Obamacare is already collapsing on its own. Though the Democrats claim otherwise, they can\u2019t afford to let this draw out for very long, since some Democrat voters are already beginning to wonder just what it is that they are supposed to be missing in this shutdown. The longer Obama and Reid keep the government shutdown, the worse it becomes for the Democrats and the better it becomes for Republicans.<\/p>\n
If Boehner, McConnell and the GOP leadership bargains away this decisive win, it won\u2019t be because they were doing what they thought best for the nation. It will then be clear that those RINOs want Obamacare as much as do the Democrats, but they just don\u2019t want to be seen as supporting it. It\u2019s the GOP\u2019s battle to lose.<\/p>\n
The only winning move for Republicans in the Obama\/Reid shutdown battle, is to do \u201cNOTHING\u201d and the GOP leadership knows it.<\/p>\nFollow us on social media
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- K-Spades:<\/strong>\u00a0AP<\/a>\u00a0now places Obama\u2019s favorable numbers at a mere 37% and dropping. That\u2019s not a whole lot better than\u00a0Richard Nixon\u2019s favorables<\/a>, on the day he resigned from office. Sure, that same poll shows that the approval rating for\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0of Congress (Republican and Democrat) is only 5%. But when you look at individual ratings, you find that those like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and a few others at the head of the defund or delay movement buck this trend and actually have remarkably high favorability numbers. It\u2019s only Democrats and those Republicans who don\u2019t keep their campaign promises, whose numbers are scraping bottom\u2026 people like Boehner, McConnell, Ryan, and McCain, to name just a few.<\/li>\n