If Repubs Hold Debt Ceiling Hostage Again, Where Will Voter Anger Fall?

[DemocracyInaction]

I know where we want it to fall. But, knowing how stupid waaaay too many people are, do you think this time they will bare their teeth and go for repuke's throat? Or will they, like sheep, fall for the crap that it's Obama 's fault and they need Mr. Business to save them??? I honestly don't trust their ability to see how they are being manipulated.

[Sherman A1]

1. Well,

This tactic has never really worked too well for them as I recall, causing one to wonder just why they continue to repeatedly use it.

[Fumesucker]

9. It gets the base really, really, really worked up..

Conservatives will primary a sitting Congresscritter for insufficient crayzee in a heartbeat and everybody knows it..

[DJ13]

11. They use hostage tactics because they know Congressional Dems and the President

..will eventually cave on key points.

[liberal N proud]

2. They will rely on the media to blame Obama

But it is a very risky gamble considering the approval ratings for Congress vs. The President.

[sharp_stick]

3. It hurt them pretty badly

last year so I'm quite hopeful that any kind of idiotic brinksmanship repeats.

[State the Obvious]

4. Republicans don't like this reply...

"We ALREADY raised the debt ceiling under President Bush. That is so 2002! ....2003....2004....2006....2007....and TWICE in 2008."

(Thank you Stephen Colbert!)

[think]

10. excellent reply and quite fitting

[alfredo]

5. Too many people think the president has more power than he really has.

They confuse the chain of command they see at work with how our government works.

[kentuck]

6. It is only meant to appease the Tea Party wing of the GOP...

They want them to think the GOP is the Party of balanced budgets, etc...

[Motown_Johnny]

7. Given that our credit rating fell last time they tried this

I think we have an advantage next time around.

[boxman15]

8. The GOP.

The media will try to make it out to be a false equivalency thing ("Both sides are equally responsible!&quot . I think voters, especially with Obama, one of the best campaigners in history, on the campaign trail, will blame the Republican Party, though.