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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe meme of children with cancer being denied treatment will haunt House tea crazies in 2014.
The image of that horror, based on the RETHUG tantrum to end ACA by shutting down the government, oh the irony, is going to hopefully drag those bottom feeders down to the dregs of political relevancy where they belong.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Shutdowns have consequences.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Only if Democratic challengers actually bring it up and make it a campaign issue will it matter at all. Unfortunately, we are over a year away from the 2014 election, and the government shutdown will probably be over by then, Obamacare will be fully up and running, and the teabaggers will have decided this was their idea in the first place. Just wait for the right-wing commercials insinuating that the ACA was their idea.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Jon Stewart skewers them again
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/tue-october-1-2013-david-mitchell