Don't Believe It

From the San Fran Chronicle:
Martinez Democrat George Miller opened a campaign Friday with minority leader Nancy Pelosi to try to get Republican rank-and-file to join them in reopening the government.
The plan is to get 218 signatures on a “discharge petition” to force a bill to fund the government to the House floor, bypassing House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, as permitted under House rules.
It’s a long-shot bid to get Republicans to openly rebel against their leaders. The Democrats said they’ve already handed Republicans a win by agreeing to $986 billion in spending, representing the 10 percent cut in domestic appropriations under the sequester....
Miller told us that many Republicans, in private conversations with himself and other Democrats, have indicated they are looking for a way out.
“We’ve all compared notes with people, we talk with and back and forth, and yes, there’s clearly a sufficient number (of Republicans) to do this,” Miller said. “They’ve said they’re not happy with what’s going on here.”
Republicans are privately searching for an exit strategy, he said, telling him and other Democrats, “We could try this, or we could try this.” http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/10/04/george-miller-republicans-searching-for-an-exit/
I admit, the GOP would be the ones who would snatch victory from defeat and cave in.
But the democrats know they are losing and that is why they are trying to put out stories like this.  The truth is that the democrats are the one's panicking and looking for a way out.  They overplayed their hands and now they look like the bully in the room who want to deny healthcare to kids with cancer, harassing WWII veterans, threatening priests with arrest, closing parks etc.
But again, if the GOP follows history, they will probably figure out to take a victory and turn it into a defeat.