Dana Milbank: Republicans are at a dead end

[highplainsdem]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-republicans-are-at-a-dead-end/2013/10/15/30afc662-35d2-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html

Here’s how grave the House Republicans’ condition has become: They’re now in the care of a mortician.

In the early minutes of a marathon meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday morning, Rep. Steve Southerland, a funeral director from Florida, rose to suggest the lawmakers sing “Amazing Grace” — and his colleagues joined him in a rendition of the burial hymn.

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It was an appropriate choice, for the House GOP is practicing its own form of mortuary science: It is burying both the Republican brand and America’s standing in the world.

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Boehner and his colleagues can sing “Amazing Grace” in the Capitol basement, but if they get the blame for a shutdown and a default, the only way they’ll be able to preserve their majority is with embalming fluid.

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. going to be hard for them to escape that stench of death on them after this too...

[grasswire]

2. Cruz looks like a mortician too.

I thought that from the beginning.

[Cha]

4. Kinda looks like the

Grim Reaper to me..

[freshwest]

3. 'Death to America!' Republican style. Since they're really for the Confederacy or CSA, not the USA.

[Cha]

5. Exactly.. and in the mean time

please see my post above, fresh..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3859743

[salin]

6. "If they get the blame".... really. "If"?

How many polls does it take to change that one word. The public places the blame on the GOP - and that doesn't seem to be waning.

[B Calm]

7. Even if they give the country a clean CR vote today,

the damage is done to the republican party. It's only going to destroy their party if they carry this any further! They played with this stupid game too long and people are sick of them!