Republicans Are Holding Themselves Hostage

[HAB911]

They're threatening a government shutdown—against their own party.

The comeback strategy Republicans adopted after back-to-back election wipeouts in the 2006 midterms and Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 drew heavily on two relentless tactics:

First, GOP leaders promised to reward their core supporters with unrealistic bounties once they returned to power;

Second, they attempted to extort those concessions from unwilling Democrats using procedurally extreme legislative maneuvers.

https://newrepublic.com/article/142024/republicans-holding-hostage

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I want to know how we can better keep voters informed about the progress

by the GOP to take our Medicare and Social Security.

For instance doeskin the current budget proposal de-fund Social Security?

We are dealing with people who will do the worst imaginable stuff but if people dont know, how are we expected to stop them?

[MineralMan]

2. Apparently, they got so used to obstructing that they can't stop.

Bad cess to them.