POLITICO: …“The only thing that is keeping the government shut down is that Speaker John Boehner won’t even let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesn’t want to anger the extremists in his party,” [President] Obama said at a Maryland construction company Thursday.
The speaker’s clearly been weakened internally and in public opinion — which Obama seems eager to exploit.
A CBS News poll conducted after Monday’s deadline showed 72 percent of people opposed to the shutdown, and 44 percent of people blaming Republicans. To Obama, those are the sort of numbers that have created an opening to move from warning about the shutdown to complaining about the “Republican shutdown” to, on Thursday, the “reckless and damaging Republican shutdown.”… (more)
EDITOR: This is the point that the administration needs to emphasize. Their battle cry should be “Let them vote, John.”
