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Republicans switching to "Plan B"?

Muldur

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Karl Rove's American Crossroads SuperPAC is switching it's cash into House races and away from the foundering Romney campaign.

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/16/161241552/could-superpacs-shift-strategy-to-congress

In light of Romney's recent bout of "foot in mouth all the way down to his butt" syndrome, is this a smart move? Keeping the House would mean that the Repubs could still stalemate a re-elected Obama.

Hopefully the Democrats will step up their state race games as well. 4 more years of "do nothing" Congress on the big issues of deficit, debt, and the economy are not a viable option.
 
This kinda lines up with them pulling out of races many thought would be competitive - Michigan being the one that comes to mind.
 
If they do maintain control of the House and continue with their "let nothing happen" nonsense they will face a huge backlash in both 2014 and 2016.
 
^If we make it that far w/o a societal collapse. Moody's is already threatening a year-end downgrade similar to the one S&P gave us last time on the debt ceiling. Bonoir is digging in his heels already on raising it, let alone dealing with the underlying budget issues.

If the Repubs keep the House, they'll be 1000x worse than they are now, thinking they have a "mandate" to be obstructionist like the bunch in the 90s that pushed the "Contract on America".
 
Man the GOP should have done a better job vetting their candidate or not let him just purchase the nomination. Time to start donating to Richard Carmona's campaign and turn AZ purple with regards to our senators. McCain is over due for retirement so maybe we can go blue next time!
 
Muldur said:
^If we make it that far w/o a societal collapse. Moody's is already threatening a year-end downgrade similar to the one S&P gave us last time on the debt ceiling.
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Was there a "societal collapse" after the last downgrade? I must have missed it. Link?
 
Maybe they should adopt Plan 9, from outer space! It's about as organized as the current stuff they're doing.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Was there a "societal collapse" after the last downgrade? I must have missed it. Link?
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We came within a few days of going full default on our debts. That would have stopped all benefit payments of any kind. Shut down all government offices and services, etc.

That shock would have quickly touched off a bank panic as people rushed to get as much as they could as fast as they could to start hoarding supplies, which would have collapsed the banks in short order (Fed shut down in that case, remember?).

The stock and bond markets would have collapsed as securities holders rushed to cash as best they could.

We managed to miss it last time. Barely.
 
Dymanic said:
Can you point out where Muldur made that claim? I must have missed it.
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He can't because I didn't. I said IF we avoid one (this time). We dodged a bullet last time, but there's no guarantee that we can this time.
 
Muldur said:
We came within a few days of going full default on our debts. That would have stopped all benefit payments of any kind. Shut down all government offices and services, etc.
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It would be the republican revolution of the 90s all over again.
 
Muldur said:
We came within a few days of going full default on our debts. That would have stopped all benefit payments of any kind. Shut down all government offices and services, etc.

That shock would have quickly touched off a bank panic as people rushed to get as much as they could as fast as they could to start hoarding supplies, which would have collapsed the banks in short order (Fed shut down in that case, remember?).

The stock and bond markets would have collapsed as securities holders rushed to cash as best they could.

We managed to miss it last time. Barely.
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Somebody has been reading too much economic collapse porn again.
 
Muldur said:
We came within a few days of going full default on our debts. That would have stopped all benefit payments of any kind. Shut down all government offices and services, etc.

That shock would have quickly touched off a bank panic as people rushed to get as much as they could as fast as they could to start hoarding supplies, which would have collapsed the banks in short order (Fed shut down in that case, remember?).

The stock and bond markets would have collapsed as securities holders rushed to cash as best they could.

We managed to miss it last time. Barely.
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You've been downloading collapse porn again, haven't you?
 
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