GOP congressman compares Obamacare fight to Gettysburg myth as if it's fact...

[cynatnite]

The congressman began with an anecdote from the Civil War. "I would liken this a little bit to Gettysburg, where a Confederate unit went looking for shoes and stumbled into Union cavalry, and all of a sudden found itself embroiled in battle on a battlefield it didn't intend to be on, and everybody just kept feeding troops into it," the congressman said. "That's basically what's happening now in a political sense. This isn't exactly the fight I think Republicans wanted to have, certainly that the leadership wanted to have, but it's the fight that's here."

When the September 30 deadline for funding the government was still weeks away, the lawmaker explained, he never thought Republicans and Democrats would fail to reach agreement on a continuing resolution. "To be honest with you, I did not think we'd be in a government shutdown situation," he said. "I'm surprised that we're here." The congressman frankly admitted that he never saw the intensity of the party base's opposition to Obamacare that came to the fore in the August recess. "I think that probably the Cruz phenomenon had a lot to do with that," he said, referring to the campaign by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz to raise support for an effort to defund Obamacare. "I think it disrupted everybody's plans, both in the administration and certainly the House Republican leadership."

As the congressman told the story, as August progressed — and Cruz, along with a few Senate colleagues, the Heritage Foundation, and others, ran a high-profile campaign to stir public opinion against Obamacare — the House GOP leadership was mostly unaware of what was going on. "They got surprised a little bit by the Obamacare thing," the lawmaker said. "This was something that blew up in August. Nobody really saw it coming — probably should have a little bit, I'm not being critical of anybody in that regard, on either side of this — but it just happened."

http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-congressman-we-stumbled-into-war-over-obamacare/article/2536874

[Frustratedlady]

1. Easy as that, eh?

"This was something that blew up in August. Nobody really saw it coming — probably should have a little bit, I'm not being critical of anybody in that regard, on either side of this — but it just happened."



Then, I reckon that if it was that easy, it can just unhappen as quickly!

End this shutdown!


One more thing...you Republicans had better open your eyes to what is around you. Cruz has NO clue on how this government operates and your party, as well as the entire US, would be better off if you got rid of Cruz and his Koch buddies so this country could get back on track toward being productive once again.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. So now they found themselves in a fight they did not want to fight?

SNORT!!!

By the way there is some truth to that anecdote. There were several lucky coincidences to the battle, including a messenger for Lee losing his message which was found by Union Troops. What is not true is that the Confeder... err modern GOP did not intend to fight on this field. They did, and they are losing.

So when are they scheduling Pickett's Charge?

[KG]

3. 'message which was found by Union Troops' was the prelude to Antietam, not Gettysburg.

jus' sayin'

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Noted

[gopiscrap]

5. The entire gop has it's collective head up it's collective ass!

[City Lights]

6. Republicans are so dramatic.