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Thune: Senate Republicans Might Escalate Gov’t Shutdown Fight

A member of the Senate GOP leadership says he and his colleagues could end up backing House Republicans in their efforts to fund the government at levels below those agreed to in the bipartisan debt-limit deal last August, increasing the chances of a government shutdown fight just weeks before the 2012 election.

It is all about winning back the White House for these guys. Republicans view wrecking the economy as a wholly legitimate strategy to that end. Anybody who thinks otherwise has their head up their ass.

There is no doubt that Margret Thatcher was a pretty horrible person. She was English (strike one). She popularized the economic radicalism which our economy is still suffering under today (strike two), and she was a shitty mother (strike three). Nevertheless, she was an effective leader for the British Conservative Party who brought them back from utter irrelevancy. The way she did is a worthwhile study for Democrats who like the x's and o's of political strategy.

Last month, Mitch Crane proved overwhelmingly popular among our DL readers, as he garnered a 71% approval rating, with only 23% disapproving. This month he gets a basically identical 69% approval rating, with 25% disapproving.