Support Grows For Democratic House Takeover

It shouldn’t be a surprise that the dysfunctional House of Representatives may have to pay a price for its inability to govern.

To the extent that this is a blame game, the Republicans are shouldering the burden. Indeed, their circumstance is far worse than in the shutdown of the mid-1990s. Then, only 44 percent of Americans blamed the Gingrich-led Republicans, while 33 percent blamed then-President Bill Clinton.

But this isn’t merely a blame game.

This is politics. And politics is a competition for power.

So the numbers that really matter are those that suggest there might have been some truth in the July 2013, observation by Congressman Tom Cole, the savvy senior Republican from Oklahoma, that “the only way Republicans will lose the House is to shut down the government or default on the debt.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.