And now, the dems are ready to roll...

[GOP Congress]

Of course, the democrats are anything but magnaminous in their victory over the GOP establishment. Here is the Moveon.org letter. They do a touchdown dance, and then look at the end...

Dear MoveOn member,

Big news: As of this afternoon, a deal has finally emerged that would end the government shutdown and stop the U.S. from hitting the debt ceiling. This is a victory that MoveOn members helped create.

But it's a victory that comes at an enormous cost to America. Tea Party Republicans came within just 24 hours of defaulting on our national debt for the first time in U.S. history. They made our government look dysfunctional to the rest of the world, and brought us to the verge of wreaking havoc on the global economy.

Over the past two weeks, MoveOn members have worked tirelessly to get our government working again. There's certainly still more to do—the emerging deal makes it clear that we'll have to go on offense soon to protect Social Security and Medicare—but if you've ever questioned whether you have the power to make change, check out how MoveOn members like you took action and kept up the pressure on lawmakers:

1. The campaign started when more than 1,000 MoveOn members dropped by congressional offices the very day the government shut down, leaving bags of tea and signs that read, "We've had enough tea, thanks."

Members drop by congressional offices

2. The next day we began encouraging millions of MoveOn members to enroll in the new health care exchanges available through Obamacare—the prime target of the GOP shutdown. Was this ever going to end the shutdown? No. But was it a slap in the face to Republicans intent on seeing the Affordable Care Act fail? Absolutely.

An Obamacare enrollment ad from MoveOn

3. Around the same time, we began quantifying the real cost of the shutdown with this live counter at www.costoftheshutdown.com. To date, tens of thousands of people have shared our counter with their friends online—spreading awareness that the GOP's stubbornness has cost the American people more than $4.5 billion.

Live cost of the government shutdown

4. Days later, after partnering with Public Policy Polling, we really changed the conversation by releasing a new poll—funded with small dollar donations from MoveOn members—showing that Republicans have made themselves vulnerable in the 2014 elections thanks to the shutdown. Democrats need 17 seats to take back the House—and our results have shown Republicans trailing in at least 25 districts. Here's how MSNBC mapped out the results:

MSNBC maps MoveOn poll results

5. And none of this would have been possible if MoveOn members hadn't launched more petitions and local campaigns than any time in the past six months—with a broad range of smart, strategic goals. More than 600,000 members signed petitions asking lawmakers to forgo their salaries until the shutdown ends. Others pressured their representatives to support smart legislative moves that could end the shutdown. And hundreds started petitions that included stories about how they've been personally affected by the shutdown—and asked that the GOP simply stop the madness. Many of these petitions were delivered at rallies around the country yesterday.

MoveOn members at demonstrations this week

That's just a glimpse of what MoveOn members have done together over the last two weeks, but it speaks volumes about the impact progressives have had during the GOP shutdown.

Making sure that Tea Party Republicans are held to blame for the shutdown by the public and the mainstream media—and that Democrats in Congress don't buckle under the pressure for a bad deal—has not been easy. But MoveOn members have accepted the challenge.

And as a deal finally comes into place, one thing that's been made crystal-clear because of Tea Party Republican antics is that the GOP's House majority is at risk next year, and we have the next 13 months to capitalize on their recklessness.

Can you start the push for accountability at the polls by sharing our vulnerability map today?

Thanks for all you do.

–Mark, Alejandro, Jessica, Stefanie, Maria, and the rest of the team

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This is ****ing war. Sorry for the profanity, but they don't know what they just unleashed.

[rich_t]

The GOP all but dead as a party.  This latest capitulation is nothing more than another nail in the coffin.

Most of them act and vote like DEM lights anyway.

That is not to say that we don't have a few good ones around like Cruz etc.  But we don't have enough of them to really stand against the establishment assholes like that boot licker McCain. 

Get ready foe Speaker Nancy P. in 15.

[Flufferlie]

Does no one understand that the memory of the American people does not go deeper than that of a teaspoon? This will not effect 2014. Obamacare will. Do we have to point at the shutdown of 95'? Did we die then? Yes, we have bad eggs in the GOP. However, the whole reason this happened is because of tea party backed republicans. 144 house repubs voted against it. That does my heart good. You know you are doing something right when joe Biden says that the "last thing we need are more of the tea party". We need the elites out. If we accept defeat, we will surely have defeat. I refuse defeat.
Let the dems think they won. They succeeded in kicking a can down the road, which is the same-old-same-old.

[JohnnyReb]

I am all for late term abortions......abort all the old GOP heads.....and birth a new, refreshed, conservative, republican party.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Does no one understand that the memory of the American people does not go deeper than that of a teaspoon? This will not effect 2014.

Generally correct.  It will affect some races, sure, however that knife cuts both ways.  It remains very unlikely that the Dems will take the House, and taking the Senate is within reach even though if it happens, it will mean 'Soft' Conservatives (I.e. moderate Republicans) would actually hold the balance of power in that body.  Still, it's more important to hold the gavel with moderates in the caucus than to let the Dems keep it, since as Harry Reid has so well demonstrated, the Majority Leader in the Senate has an absolute lock on what legislation is allowed to come before it for a vote.

[J P Sousa]

Generally correct.  It will affect some races, sure, however that knife cuts both ways.  It remains very unlikely that the Dems will take the House, and taking the Senate is within reach even though if it happens, it will mean 'Soft' Conservatives (I.e. moderate Republicans) would actually hold the balance of power in that body.  Still, it's more important to hold the gavel with moderates in the caucus than to let the Dems keep it, since as Harry Reid has so well demonstrated, the Majority Leader in the Senate has an absolute lock on what legislation is allowed to come before it for a vote.

And we can thank establishment republicans for Harry Reid;

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/ralstons-flash/2010/oct/07/raggio-im-reid-against-angle-still-against-obama/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/nevada-senate-2010-harry-_n_708109.html#s135369title=Mayor_Rusty_Tybo


http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/campaign/123351-leading-nevada-republican-endorses-harry-reid



This is why I am now an "Independent".

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