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I do not think we will see Republicans attempt these debt ceiling shutdown tactics again in the near term. With midterms coming up it would be political suicide in every way.
The outcome tonight was really what was needed all along in 2011. Obama had to bring the pain to the GOP tactics that were silencing the moderate voices in the GOP. Now Boehner will have room to make the kind of deals most Americans want.
It's going to have to be a bipartisan give and take for progress to be made. This means neither side gets everything they want. The Tea Party tactic of holding the line for purity doesn't work in government. Governance only works through compromise, especially when the GOP controls the house and Democrats control the Senate and White House.
The outcome tonight was really what was needed all along in 2011. Obama had to bring the pain to the GOP tactics that were silencing the moderate voices in the GOP. Now Boehner will have room to make the kind of deals most Americans want.
It's going to have to be a bipartisan give and take for progress to be made. This means neither side gets everything they want. The Tea Party tactic of holding the line for purity doesn't work in government. Governance only works through compromise, especially when the GOP controls the house and Democrats control the Senate and White House.
