Lesson of Shutdown: Don't Burn Your Boats

In the aftermath of the government-shutdown debacle, many Tea Partiers have chosen to blame . . . Republican moderates, for wavering. In their telling, there was only one way to get out of this: go all in, stay the course, never surrender. The idea seems to have been that the Tea Party was supposed to provide the inspiration, by committing the Republican Party to a strategy that would lock in losses unless it somehow won big. Then the whole party would pull together and . . . . . . And what? Every time you pressed for specifics, you got the Underpants Gnome theory of victory. For those who are not familiar with the Underpants Gnomes, they’re characters from "South Park" who steal underwear.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/10/20/lesson_of_shutdown_don039t_burn_your_boats_318159.html
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