GOP reeling after epic defeat

GOP reeling after epic defeat

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With the government reopened, the debt ceiling lifted, and Obamacare mostly untouched, there’s little doubt that the GOP has suffered one of its worst defeats in years. And as a report in the New York Times makes clear, members of the Party know it.

“We managed to divide ourselves on something we were unified on, over a goal that wasn’t achievable,” Republican Senator Roy Blunt told the Times. “The president probably had the worst August and early September any president could have had. And we managed to change the topic.”

Other Republican senators were equally distraught. “If you look back in time and evaluate the last couple of weeks, it should be titled ‘The Time of Great Lost Opportunity,’” said South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham. “I’m trying to forget it,” said Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski. “Here we are. Here we are. We predicted it. Nobody wanted it to be this way.”