House GOP Goes Nuts Over Obamacare

Ted Cruz was pouring Kool Aid and the guys in the house were guzzling it like drunks on New Years Eve, singing "Hail, Hail, the gang's all here.  What the heck do we care?".  It was just two days ago while Cruz was doing his marathon speech on the Senate floor that CNN published an analysis of the political chessboard and concluded that a shutdown would be bad for the GOP and they probably wouldn't let it happen, but Kool Aid can change everything.  The House Republicans nearly unanimously voted to check into the new Cruz wing of the asylum.  Chanting the mantra "We're listening to the people", they neglected to check out the polls that a majority of people would blame the GOP for a shutdown.  Good luck with that guys.

In a Blog post The Hill.com noted that the Wall Street Journal thought the idea was ill advised, in a story sprinkled with battlefield anecdotes.

“We wish the GOP luck, since we support the policy if not the strategy,” the conservative-leaning board wrote in a Tuesday editorial. “But however this charge into the fixed bayonets turns out, we hope the folks who planned it will take responsibility for what happens now.”

In the piece entitled “The Cruz Campaign Against Obamacare,” the op-ed board singled out Lee and Cruz for their “implausible defunding gambit”

The NY Times also discussed the sanity of the House GOP in an Opinion piece.

Our challenge today is to explain how Congress evolved into our national nutcase.  Cruz kept demanding that the Senate “listen to the American people,” but he really meant that they should listen to his Twitter followers. A politician riding on a wave of tweets feels as if the nation is cheering his every word, even when the nation is actually reading the sports page while a select splinter of hard-core supporters manically pound away on their smartphones. A hundred thousand people cheering you on in the social media feels like a mass movement. But this is a gigantic country. You can find 100,000 people who believe in a secret plot by Belgium to corner the market on beetroot.