This is a contextual 'frame', that's worth repeating once or twice:
[...] Senator Elizabeth Warren, the liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, described Republican tactics to me as “hostage taking.” Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, told reporters that if “we can’t pass this” -- meaning a clean C.R. -- “we’re only truly entering a banana republican mind-set.”
I hate the fact that I now know what a “clean C.R.” means. It’s the kind of inside-the-Beltway term that the country only learns about when there is some big crisis in Washington, as there is now. A government that functioned would fight over the budget but would ultimately pass a budget. This government can barely hobble from one C.R. to the next.
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Those Banana Republicans
by Joe Nocera, Op-Ed Columnist, nytimes.com -- Sep 30, 2013
And in a "Banana Republic" it's the Losers who think -- they actually WON the election,
come hell or high water.