RUSH: 'GOP suffers shutdown shell shock'

Yesterday, the Republicans gave away budget negotiations, once more folding to the Democrats for nothing in return...

RUSH: "There is a simple fact, folks. The Republicans in Congress -- and I would say that this is probably true of the Republicans in Washington. They are suffering shell shock.

They are not moved at all by Obama's plummeting poll numbers. They are not moved at all by the problems people are having with Obamacare. They are in shell shock. I've described it as posttraumatic stress disorder. Whatever, they are literally afraid of one thing, and that is being blamed again for the government shutdown. That was the objective, to make sure there wasn't a government shutdown, and it didn't matter what was required.

If it meant funding Obamacare, which has happened, that's what they'd do. It's this simple. The Republicans didn't like the idea of defunding Obamacare. They didn't like the idea of a partial government shutdown. They're living in a different world. They believe that the country despises and hates them. They believe that Obama is still universally loved and adored and that there is nothing they can do to overcome that.

They think that anything that goes against Obama's way is going to result in them being blamed, and it's an election year next year, and they don't want to get anywhere near another government shutdown. No matter the principle involved. No matter the issues involved. They just weren't gonna go there. I've never seen anything like this. I have never seen this degree of shell shock or whatever else you want to call it.

But my point, folks, is there was nothing I coulda said. There's nothing anybody coulda said yesterday, there's nothing anybody coulda said during the day. There was nothing anybody coulda said that was gonna change what was gonna happen in the Republican negotiating position on this budget -- and this is the first real budget in, what, two or three years? The Democrats finally did present a budget..."

And these shell-shock establishment Republican so-called leaders are going along with it. Folks, please remember these feckless fools come primary season, which is rapidly approaching in just a matter of months!

"The disconnect with their own voters and base, I have never seen anything like it. They are so frightened of being blamed for another shutdown that they gave up parts of the sequester, which had been a hard line on spending.

The sequester was a bipartisan deal. It was Obama's idea. It was a Republican-Democrat achievement that really did help reduce the deficit -- part of it, anyway, the rate -- and this deal un-sequestered the sequester, and it increases spending in the near term for promises of some tiny long-term reductions to the tune of $2.5 billion a year. But now the Republicans in Congress believe that they now have an open field to continue to criticize Obamacare and talk about Obamacare in negative ways."

And it will remain talk alone with no action as long as this rudderless leadership persists.