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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Obamacare/Gov'mint Shutdown a Distraction

 
(Image by Gary Varvel)
 
For months, commentators, Tea Partiers and other not-quite-Republicans have advocated that Republican politicians should let the Obamacare train derail on it's own--as depicted in the above cartoon.  But they insist on picking a fight by threatening to defund Obamacare inadvertantly triggering a government shutdown. 
 
 
But should a shutdown occur, Republicans will be the scapegoats.
 
Or is that scapelephants?
 
Thomas Sowell points out this sort of brinkmanship provides Team Obama with a distraction from all the "phony scandals"
 
This passage in particular caught my eye:
 
What matters is that this distraction solves Barack Obama’s political problems that he could not possibly have solved by himself.
 
Reflecting on it, this strikes me as a common theme with the "O'ministration." A lot of (all of?) Obama's initiatives required others to step in (like Vladimir Putin) and pull his presidential chestnuts out of the fire.

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