Remember: Republicans Took Us To The Brink Because They Opposed Their Own Idea

This is pathetic:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he was "proud" of Boehner's handling of the crisis. Then within moments he pleaded with Democrats to bail out the GOP, which he admitted has "screwed up" and "really did go too far" in the shutdown and debt limit standoffs.

"We won't be the last political party to overplay our hand," he said. "It might happen one day on the Democratic side. And if it did, would Republicans, for the good of the country, kinda give a little? We really did go too far. We screwed up. But their response is making things worse, not better."

Christ, who out there thinks the GOP would ease up on the Democrats if the situation was reversed? I just hope the Democrats don't forget all the shit the Republicans pulled over the last few years leading up to this moment.   

The GOP has taken this country to the brink of default over the Individual Health Care Mandate, an idea the GOP actually once supported.  This fact is finally starting to get some ink in the mainstream press.  This is from a Los Angeles Times Op/Ed by Jane Mansbridge:

Fundamentally — and infuriatingly for the Democratic base — Obamacare is inherently a compromise because it is a health insurance reform law rather than an overhaul of the structure of our nation's healthcare system. ***  Instead of a single-payer system or even a public option for those who chose it, Democrats went along with the Obama compromise of adopting RomneyCare, the old Republican plan signed into law by Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts.

I have been critical of the GOP for its epic flip-flop on the Individual Mandate. A chronic flip-flopper might respond that a person -- or even a political party -- should have the right to change his, her, or its mind about things.  But this whole notion of the GOP bringing us to the brink over the implementation of an idea it once supported?  There's just no excuse for that kind of ridiculous behavior. 

I think Chief Justice Roberts voted to uphold ObamaCare because he didn't feel like playing the same bullshit game that the rest of the GOP was playing -- he didn't want to pretend that ObamaCare was the most evil form of socialism ever enacted when he knew it was a GOP idea to begin with and one that Republicans supported all the way up to 2008, when they stopped supporting it for some reason.