Dangerous Blame Game
Are the Republicans as aware of how dangerous the position they’re putting themselves in is, as I’ve imagined in this drawing? Or are they willfully blind, consumed with a passion for protecting the very rich from any kind of tax increase and the equally passionate desire to take a meat ax to spending? Do they not remember the government shutdown engineered by Speaker Newt Gingrich? If they liked how that worked out, they’ll love the rebuke they’re courting.
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