Keeping Score: Massie Proud Of His Goose Egg

Okay, I know it's Mother Jones, but the quote is Massie's:

Rep. Thomas Massie, the Hayek-quoting, trouble-making first-term Republican congressman from northern Kentucky, stood in a circle of reporters in the Capitol basement and shrugged. "Goose egg—we got nothing." That was his summation of what House Republicans had accomplished, after shutting down the federal government for 15 days, costing $24 billion in economic losses, and bringing the nation to the brink of an unprecedented default.

After the Senate voted 81 to 18 to approve a bill to raise the debt ceiling and fund the federal government, the House followed suit late Wednesday night, with 87 Republicans joining the entire Democratic caucus in support of the measure, one that included none of the original tea party demands to delay or defund Obamacare. In a statement, President Obama expressed his wish that Washington "put the last three weeks behind us."

Still, Massie had no regrets. "I don't see any credence to the argument that we would have been better off without the fight," he said, "because nobody can tell me what we'd have now that we don't have."

If you can find logic in anything he said then maybe you, like him, think that building a sand yacht out of junk is a worthwhile pursuit.

Comments

[Richard Saunders]

It's good Massie did what he did. We still have sequestration levels in effect. That is a big win. Discretioanry spending is still at Bush levels and must remain there until a budget is put in place.

Though, this is a loss to democrats and establishment republicans who like to spend.

[Bill Adkins]

Don't blame me. I voted for Adkins