For all the hyped indignation over GOP “anarchism,” there has been
remarkable media reticence about the president’s intransigence. He has
refused to negotiate anything unless the Republicans fully fund the
government and raise the debt ceiling — unconditionally.
For all his protestations about protecting the full faith and credit of the United States — jittery markets are showing that his brinkmanship could have precisely the opposite effect — the president’s real intent is to score a humiliating victory over the GOP.
So far, so good. Republicans have fallen to 28 percent approval, the lowest level ever for either party in 21 years of polling and a staggering 10-point drop in the last month. Democrats have also declined, but only four points and, in the end, partisan politics is a zero-sum game. If you lose less than the other guy, you win — because every seat in Congress will be allocated to one party or the other, no matter how disgusted the country is with both.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-way-out/2013/10/10/9dc2e70a-31e2-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story.html
For all his protestations about protecting the full faith and credit of the United States — jittery markets are showing that his brinkmanship could have precisely the opposite effect — the president’s real intent is to score a humiliating victory over the GOP.
So far, so good. Republicans have fallen to 28 percent approval, the lowest level ever for either party in 21 years of polling and a staggering 10-point drop in the last month. Democrats have also declined, but only four points and, in the end, partisan politics is a zero-sum game. If you lose less than the other guy, you win — because every seat in Congress will be allocated to one party or the other, no matter how disgusted the country is with both.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-way-out/2013/10/10/9dc2e70a-31e2-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story.html
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