Not business as usual

Many in the media saying, OK, shutdown is over, now back to business as usual. Well, not back to business as usual. Republicans are in the middle of a civil war looking for a scapegoat for the shutdown disaster. Early indications point to Mitch McConnell as they are too afraid of the Tea Party to target the real culprit, Ted Cruz. On the Democratic side, we all hope Obama finally realized that there is no common sense negotiation with Republicans as long as they are the puppets of the Tea Party. Democrats are also in the process of capitalizing on this victory to increase their size of the Senate and take back the House. It is not business as usual, but a new beginning.

Will the history repeat?

It is said that history repeats itself, that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, etc. The GOP and its Tea Party (Teapublicans) shut down the government to force changes in Obamacare and failed. Failed miserably. They failed because people realized the foolishness of trying to kill a law that will benefit people when fully implemented. People are not dumb. We all have the tendency to complain when things are not working smoothly, but we all understand the difference between something bad in its roots and something good that is having problems getting established. People know Obamacare is good and it is having problems in its implementation. People also know that GOP is trying to sabotage the implementation Obamacare at every step for political reasons. Now do the math and you will understand why 3/4 of the nation turned against the GOP and Teapublicans.


Talking about lessons, GOP was not the only one to ignore history and get slammed. Obama made the same mistake once. It all goes back to the famous shutdown by Newt Gingrich under the Clinton presidency. GOP tried the shutdown fiasco, Clinton stood his ground and the GOP lost. The GOP tried the fiasco again in 2011 and won because Obama did not learn from Clinton's example and rolled over. The GOP tried the fiasco again in 2013 expecting to extort concessions like in 2011, but Obama decided to fight, and won big. Lesson is GOP government shutdown is just a fiasco, a ruse they use to extort when they cannot win elections.

Shutting down the whole federal government and risking the whole economy just to undermine Obamacare was extreme, unnecessary and irresponsible. Now, the Reid deal will open the government until 1/15/2014. The question is if GOP will try the same fiasco again or if they learned the lesson. A related questions is if GOP goes through another shutdown, if Obama has learned the lesson. Only time will tell.

Texas poised to become a swing state maybe by 2016

This is simple math, Bill Clinton style.

• Latinos are 30% of the Texas voting population and we know they support Democrats (70% voted for Obama in the 2012 election)
• African Americans are 12% of the Texas voting population and we know they also support Democrats (93% voted for Obama in the 2012 election)
• Obama still got 41% of the vote in Texas even though the Democratic Party has not invested serious resources in Texas for a while

But before you jump the gun and conclude that the 41% Obama got in 2012 was precisely the 30% Latino plus 12% African American I mentioned above, consider that

• Just over 2 million eligible Hispanics did not vote

And this is just Hispanics.

• Add to that all other democrats who just don't bother because they believe Texas is still a reliable red state (blacks, women, young, Liberal whites. And yes, there are a lot of Liberal whites in Texas) and you get the picture

Texas is ripe for blue harvesting. It is a matter now of resources to start organizing.

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