If Obama surrenders not only he or his party will be damaged, the Presidency as a institution will be severly damaged. The whole political system in the US is on the brink now.

Even if the Dems "blink" they won't 100% surrender. There may be a 50/50 or 40/60 compromise, but will the Tea-party follow for a compromise? I think not, so the Reps will break up.

You're both dilusional. Both parties are crashing and burning. The movement for real change is happening and people are fed up with the government. Step 1 is removing incumbents from office. With the new blood coming in, term limits will be passed and hopefully we can avoid this entire problem in the future and finally recover from our ineptitude.

Buy US Bonds! Pay no attention to our internal political turmoil! It matters not that more Americans believe UFOs are real than trust either party!  Buy US Bonds! At low low low rates! Bam bam bam! Sign on the line that is dotted!

We need a party that understands the power of the House to control funding.

Democrats as a matter of ideology think we are morally obligated to create bigger centralized planning and so every future Congress has a duty to fund the healthcare bill passed in 2010.  We can never revisit it

Republicans are proving they don't want the House to use its power to pick and choose what to fund. And I think that is because the heads of GOP want to control the public, they want everything to come down to the presidential campaign which they also want wrapped up without holding primaries in most states.

If the American people recognize that they can defund the IRS, TSA, FBI, DEA, ICE, Obamacare, EPA, Air Force, whatever, by electing a House majority that won't vote to fund them, they will have a lot of power.  And the parties will lose a lot of power.  The parties do not want to try to coordinate 435 elections every 2 years.  They want to slather money on 33 Senate races every two years and 1 Presidential election every 4 years.  And they definitely don't want their precious Senators confronted with the voters' demands for defunding every two years.

What did Rove tell us 4 years ago?  He said when he was running elections for the party he was promising Senators that if they won and became incumbent, the Party would support their re-election no matter what.  So why should they see sense if they're guaranteed the money to get re-elected?  Why should they even care that the House wins based on promises?  Why should their cushy career be affected just because the voters got their panties in a wad about mandatory insurance premiums?  And they don't care.

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Your liberal interpetation of "Whites only" is a lie, and a racist despicable one.

Martin Luther King, a REPUBLICAN, is turning in his grave. Sad thing is I expect you sincerely think we are white only, and that you cannot think of one black, one latino, one asian, or any other minority in my party, which makes your brainwashed racist attitude even worse.

Your entire post is drivel and incorrect. Wish, under pressure, to change it now?

It is a take over war and tbh i think we are winning.

Time to primary mcconnel.

Actually the republican party blinked first.

If I remember right, several Republican congressman broke through the barricade that was put up by local agencies, showing the memorial sites were shutdown.  In fact one congressman was arrested for something directly related to a site being cordoned off.  Hmmm.

Actually I kinda felt sad for Boehner.  I prefer to call him Bonehead Boehner, but now I just see him as a guy with a chair and a whip, trying to hold back a really pissed off Lion.  A lion which we have named the Tea party.  So far, the Tea party has been kept in check, but it's only a matter of time, before they pounce and devour the "Lion tamer."

I mean look at Boehner, seriously, just look at him.  He's even frustrated with the Tea Party.  He hates their guts.  He has to placate a group of people that do not use the word "compromise".

It is the end of the republican party as we know it.  But only if every single republican is replaced by a member of the Tea party.  But I believe fully the backlash is on the Tea Party.  The states are looking at the Tea party, as the party that will not compromise on health care.  They will not compromise on immigration.  They will not compromise on basic helping services to the american public.  To the Tea party, if you don't have a job, your lazy.  And if your lazy, you deserve nothing from the government.  So in hence, most of you, just are lazy, and deserve no food.  You don't deserve a roof over your head.  You do not deserve an education.  You don't deserve nothing.

In the eyes of the Tea Party, your all lazy. A single mother with three children is lazy, according to the Tea party.  She does not deserve help in feeding her family and paying her bills.  If she truelly wished to pay her bills, and help her family, she should be working at a better job.  Even though, she has no college education, and according to the businesses that pay well, you must have "2-4 years prior experience."  And even if you did have the experience, you would be "over qualified."  What a joke that is.  But that's big business, and that is The Tea Party for you.

A veteran who was shot in Desert Storm, who again was wounded in Afghanistan many years later, should be applauded for his heroism.  But he leaves the service, gets ran into by a hit-and-run driver...and all the sudden it's, you don't deserve health to be treated and taken care of through the health care system.  The insurer has dubbed your "accident" as a pre-existing condition, because where you were shot, also happens to be where a break occured when you were ran over in the hit-and-run case.  (that is no lie, that is an actual incident with an american soldier).  But that's the Tea Party.  Pre-existing conditions will not be covered pre-Health Care overall.

Yes.  It is the end of the republican party.

I'm republican.

But I sure as hell refuse to be part and parcel of the Republican TEA PARTY.

The republicans will get a resurgance of proper republican support, and it will be the Tea party that shall fall to ruin.

Oh pfff.  Democrats and republicans have put forth legislation, written by business interests, and in some cases word for word.  Lawmakers have written any laws for a while.  They've had the laws written for them.

Lawmakers indeed.  Law maker.  Military intelligence.  It's an oxymoron. Law maker.