Selected editorial comments from around the country courtesy Don McKee with the Marietta Daily Journal: The Washington Post blasted Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who led the fight to defund Obamacare: “As many of his GOP colleagues foresaw, what Mr. Cruz billed as a principled stand for freedom and against welfare-statism was actually the political equivalent of a toddler’s tantrum. ...” New York Times: “The Republican Party slunk away on Wednesday from its failed, ruinous strategy to get its way through the use of havoc. Hours away from an inevitable market crash, it approved a deal that could have been achieved months ago had a few more lawmakers set aside their animus. ... The health care reform law will not be defunded or delayed. No taxes will be cut, and the deal calls for no new cuts to federal spending or limits to social welfare programs. The only things Republicans achieved were billions of dollars in damage to the economy, harm to the nation’s reputation and a rock-bottom public approval rating.” The Chicago Tribune broadened the target: “Say what you will about conservative Republicans’ congressional tantrum of the past few weeks. It’s all true. The GOP hard-liners look foolish for embarking on a crusade against the Affordable Care Act they couldn’t win.” But the Tribune found a silver lining: “Official Washington’s focus now is on our national debt.” Los Angeles Times: “House Republicans should consider themselves lucky to have wound up empty-handed after triggering a 16-day government shutdown. ... The question for lawmakers now is whether they learned the obvious lesson from the latest manufactured crisis: It’s impossible to govern from the extreme.”
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:07:40 +0000
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