Americans Must Suffer

Photo Credit: American Thinker Watching Barack Obama and his shutdown shenanigan theatre, I discovered I have something in common with our inchoate president — we both want Americans to suffer.

As a sociopathic solipsist, Obama is incapable of feeling anyone’s pain, and because of this, his goal has been to make this shutdown as agonizing as possible.

Ted Cruz, an honorable man with conviction, thought he could force ObamaCare concessions from the administration using the continuing resolution as a cudgel. Boehner thought the debt ceiling offered better opportunities. They decided on the infamous “defund strategy.”

Yet, once you dare to stare down the bully, you must stare down the bully. Republicans picked a fight and in a fight, one must fight. Now, the Republicans feel they cannot walk away from this confrontation with nothing.

Their strategy had a fatal flaw. For the Cruz maneuver to have succeeded, Barack Obama and the Democrats had to fear the shutdown. This was obviously not the case. They, in fact, welcomed it, and have done everything in their power to make it as painful as possible.

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