Withholding the trivial pay these inmates get could well put their currently unpaid but compelled to work guards at risk of a disturbance.
Great article. Failure now that they are seen to have gone all in will be devastating for republican turnout. Add in an amnesty sellout and you are looking at a wipeout. Of course, the party establishment will then lecture us that is what happens if we don't appeal to the middle.
Just to score a political victory? What do you suppose politics is about? I think if we step back and look at this dispassionately it is obvious why Obama isn't negotiating. He wins if he doesn't negotiate. He losses if he does. Either the Republicans cave or they don't.They lose either way. Obama has outsmarted them. There is really not much the Republicans can do, they are coming apart at the seams. Not that the Democrats are united or brilliant, but so far at least they haven't tried to commit suicide. One two week delay on social security checks and any registered Republicans receiving social security are now Democrats! The Republicans have put themselves in a no win situation. They badly need new leadership. Actually, come to think of it, they self destructed the day they kissed off 47% of the electorate.
If Obama decides to prioritize the gov't cash, which incidentally they have claimed they can't do, and pay the bondholders instead of the ss recipients, you say the ss recipients are automatically going to blame reps instead of obama? How exactly do you know this?
Yes that is exactly what will happen. They will prioritize and pay on bonds and notes first. Obama will tell the social security recipients that it is the Republicans' fault that they are not getting paid and they will believe him because he has a darker tan then Boner. (Intelligence and sun tan are correlated!) Seriously, who would you blame? Would you blame the House Majority that is refusing to bring a clean CR to the floor that can pass the Senate, or would you blame the minority that does not control what comes to the floor?