Rachel Maddow: GOP Demanded Everything to End the Shutdown and Got Exactly ‘Nothing’

With the government shutdown at an end, Rachel Maddow thought it would be useful to show exactly what the Republicans’ demands were the entire time for ending the national crisis. She went through the whole list of everything the GOP said it wanted in exchange for keeping the government open and concluded that they got precisely nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. She said even the Democrats got something they wanted out of this, but the Republicans, the ones who came up with the “ransom note” in the first note, got absolutely none of what they wanted.

Maddow explained how “the Republicans thought for sure the Democrats would cave” on Obamacare, and the fact that they didn’t threw them for a loop and so they had “no idea what to do next.”

She went down the list of all their “weird, specific demands” about Obamacare and a list of other issues, from birth control to Paul Ryan‘s tax code on their “constantly-changing list of demands.” And “of their entire list,” Maddow said, “they are going to get nothing. Nothing.”

She added, “It may be true that nobody won, but someone definitely lost here.”

Watch the video below, via MSNBC:

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