If the GOP shuts down the government will there be a Koch coup?

[kimbutgar]

That is a fear I have. With the media in the GOP pocket. The narrative will be that it is the fault of the President and the Dem's the government is shut down and only the GOP can save the country. The GOP are geniuses with their talking points and they have access to billions that can be spent everywhere to flood the tv, radio and Internet.

I hope I am wrong but these are scary times.

[factsarenotfair]

1. If it gets tossed to the Supreme Court,

they could easily turn our nation over the the Tea Party, i.e. the Koch Brothers and their billionaire cronies.

[Myrina]

13. Why would a budget impasse go to SCOTUS?

They have no business in budgetary/debt matters.

[factsarenotfair]

14. Because they decide constitutional questions.

And because they can pretty much do whatever they want to do (as in Bush V. Gore).

[onenote]

16. What constitutional question brought in what case by whom?

Details please.

[factsarenotfair]

17. The 14th Amendment by the Obama Administration.

Although I've heard that right-wingers would impeach him if he tried to apply it.
p.s. I'm not a constitutional scholar so please don't take this as authoritative.

[onenote]

18. The fourteenth amendment is sometimes mentioned as a response to a default

not to a government shutdown. One crisis at a time.

[busterbrown]

2. Didn’t work last time..Will not work this time..

The House controls the money.... They can’t control the money and hold the AHA as ransom. Most people know this and will become even more evident when it is shut down.

[JaneyVee]

3. Kokoo!

[kimbutgar]

9. I am not the only one who think there is a soft coup'd’état going right now in this country.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/27/republican-fascists-stop-representative-democracy.html

I am not crazy, while you're reading this article check out the others on this excellent site you might learn something new.

[Blue Idaho]

4. When the GOP shuts down the government they will hand the House to the Democrats.

They will bolster our position in the Senate, and take a huge step towards destroying themselves as a national party.

This is not the GOP juggernaut party of Regan or Bush. This is a pathetic pack of yokels that believe in their own propaganda more than life itself.

Hell on earth is coming to this TeaPublican party.

[Ikonoklast]

6. I rec this post.

[BlueDemKev]

11. I don't see how we can regain the House

With the districts so lopsidedly-gerrymandered.

[Blue Idaho]

12. Never underestimate the power of some really angry senior citizens and vets.

The House keeps screwing around and no checks will make it anyone's mailbox. Then we'll see just how popular all those TeaPublicans really are.

[DJ13]

5. The Koch's arent exclusively GOP supporters

They also funded the DLC (dont know about the Turd Way).

[Ikonoklast]

7. Hundreds of millions spent, and they still lose.

The Kochs are stupid, they are throwing good money after bad the stupid fucks.

Their Teabaggers are going down in flames, and will take the entire right wing noise machine along with them.

[Generic Brad]

8. Most CEOs do not want fiscal disaster

The Kochs have been and will continue to be the crazy extremist fringe.

[hedgehog]

10. I've been wondering when other CEOs will have had enough and

start to go after the Koch Brothers.
How expansive would it be to put on an ad campaign about astro-turfing?

[onenote]

15. Apparently you don't pay any attention to the media you think will turn this against the Democrats

The reporting on the fight over shutting down the government has overwhelmingly delivered the message that the Republicans are taking, and will take, the blame.