Where Republicans are really messing up with this strategy is with Indpendent voters, who are still a big block. Yeah, conservative voters don't care, and/or blame Democrats. Democrats blame Republicans, but more and more Independent voters are looking like Democrats:
Republicans supported the government shutdown by a 49-44 percent margin while opposition was 90-6 among Democrats and 74-19 among independent voters, the poll found.
Republicans need independent voters to win elections, at least presidential elections and other "purple state" elections. They don't seem to care.
With 170,000 federal employees in Virginia and 30 percent of the economy of Northern Virginia dependent on government spending, no state has more to lose from a government shutdown than this one.
And the first concrete gauge of the political fallout may play out here, where a governor’s race that had been dominated by the weakness of the two candidates now seems to be focused on the question of which party will take the blame.
With the election just 34 days away, the issue increasingly is raising risks for Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the Republican, who is worriedly trying to keep voters angry at Washington Republicans from taking it out on him.
Presumably mindful of the political reality in their battleground state, four Republican House members from Virginia — J. Randy Forbes, Scott Rigell, Frank R. Wolf and Rob Wittman — have broken ranks and called for a vote to finance the government with no policy strings attached, which would end the shutdown.
pioneer98 wrote:Some real consequences...A lot of people were not getting WIC to feed their babies due to the shutdown. "Non-essential" I guess. I know people who were getting WIC. They'd get a monthly amount, but only enough money to pay for about 2 weeks of formula. They have to cover the other 2 weeks themselves, and for a lot of them even that was a struggle. Oh well.
pioneer98 wrote:Some real consequences...A lot of people were not getting WIC to feed their babies due to the shutdown. "Non-essential" I guess. I know people who were getting WIC. They'd get a monthly amount, but only enough money to pay for about 2 weeks of formula. They have to cover the other 2 weeks themselves, and for a lot of them even that was a struggle. Oh well.
pioneer98 wrote:Some real consequences...A lot of people were not getting WIC to feed their babies due to the shutdown. "Non-essential" I guess. I know people who were getting WIC. They'd get a monthly amount, but only enough money to pay for about 2 weeks of formula. They have to cover the other 2 weeks themselves, and for a lot of them even that was a struggle. Oh well.
If these people refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and be job creators - let them starve. This country doesn't need their kind.
I know people who think that way...unless it happens to them, of course.
Those no good communistic bastards in DC keep spending all of MY money on food stamps and Obama phones for those greedy lazy bastards! Now hurry up and send my social security check and make sure my Medicare keeps covering all of my prescriptions.
pioneer98 wrote:Some real consequences...A lot of people were not getting WIC to feed their babies due to the shutdown. "Non-essential" I guess. I know people who were getting WIC. They'd get a monthly amount, but only enough money to pay for about 2 weeks of formula. They have to cover the other 2 weeks themselves, and for a lot of them even that was a struggle. Oh well.
If these people refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and be job creators - let them starve. This country doesn't need their kind.
I know people who think that way...unless it happens to them, of course.
Those no good communistic bastards in DC keep spending all of MY money on food stamps and Obama phones for those greedy lazy bastards! Now hurry up and send my social security check and make sure my Medicare keeps covering all of my prescriptions.
Haha....... sad but true.
15 years from now: "Keep your gubmint hands off of my Obamacare!!".
