Republican Strategists To GOP Lawmakers: Please Don't Blow It On The Debt Ceiling
TOM KLUDT JANUARY 4, 2014, 10:54 AM EST
Republican strategists would feel a lot better about the party's chances in this year's midterms if it weren't for some Republican lawmakers.
The Hill reported Saturday that the looming debt ceiling battle has a number of GOP strategists "anxious about the partys capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
Only months removed from a government shutdown that represented a huge embarrassment for Republicans on Capitol Hill, some strategists are urging their party's lawmakers to cool it with their demands for concessions ahead of the Feb. 7 debt ceiling deadline.
What Republicans have to realize [is] the political winds are in our direction. We cant risk changing the winds at this stage, GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak told The Hill. You can shut down the Obama agenda completely if you have the Senate.
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