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Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Monday that he will buck his party leadership and vote against bringing up a government-funding bill that includes a one-year delay of Obamacare. And, he said, there may be as many as 25 other Republicans ready to do the same.
But while most House Republicans may be inclined to vote for the bill itself, King said as many as 25 of them may join him in voting against the rule to bring the bill up in the first place. The reason, he said, is because they are worried about the political fallout from a government shutdown, and they don't want to be seen as having voted to cause it. If that block of Republicans holds, they, along with all the House Democrats opposed to bringing up the bill, could potentially sink it.
"They just feel it's a dead end," King said of those lawmakers, without naming names. "Shut down the government and then get blamed for it."
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Monday that he will buck his party leadership and vote against bringing up a government-funding bill that includes a one-year delay of Obamacare. And, he said, there may be as many as 25 other Republicans ready to do the same.
But while most House Republicans may be inclined to vote for the bill itself, King said as many as 25 of them may join him in voting against the rule to bring the bill up in the first place. The reason, he said, is because they are worried about the political fallout from a government shutdown, and they don't want to be seen as having voted to cause it. If that block of Republicans holds, they, along with all the House Democrats opposed to bringing up the bill, could potentially sink it.
"They just feel it's a dead end," King said of those lawmakers, without naming names. "Shut down the government and then get blamed for it."
That would be fantastic. Peter King is insane on foreign policy and seems to hate Muslims, but if he can pull this off, Boehner would be embarrassed. It would prove that there are some sane Republicans in the conservative party.
That would be fantastic. Peter King is insane on foreign policy and seems to hate Muslims, but if he can pull this off, Boehner would be embarrassed. It would prove that there are some sane Republicans in the conservative party.
"There are 233 Republicans in the House. Insiders estimate that three-quarters of them, or about 175 GOP lawmakers, are willing, and perhaps even eager, to vote for a continuing resolution that funds the government without pressing the Republican goal of defunding or delaying Obamacare.
On the other side, insiders estimate about 30 House Republicans believe strongly that Obamacare is such a far-reaching and harmful law that the GOP should do everything it can--everything--to stop it or slow it down.
Another 20 to 30 GOP members sympathize with that position but might be willing to compromise, except for the fact that they fear a primary challenge from the Right.
In the continuing resolution fight, it is the 30 most committed members, along with their 20-30 allies in the next-most-committed group, who are setting the House Republican agenda. The ones pushing for a fight over Obamacare, even if it leads to a shutdown, are controlling what the House does."
I like Peter King but he's floating non-stop trial balloons about running for the presidency in 2016. He will destroy any possibility of that if he wants to show off and buck leadership right now.
The self-immolation of the Republican Party continues to be a blight on our nation. For four years I thought the Republicans in the House were deliberately trying to sabotage the economic recovery in a failed bid to deny Obama reelection. What is becoming more and more clear is that their sabotage comes from incompetence and dogmatic myopia. The mainstream Republicans and the Tea Party are respectively the Sunni and the Shi'a branches of the GOP, and we will never dig ourselves out of the suffering they cause us until they decide to love America more than they hate themselves.
The self-immolation of the Republican Party continues to be a blight on our nation. For four years I thought the Republicans in the House were deliberately trying to sabotage the economic recovery in a failed bid to deny Obama reelection. What is becoming more and more clear is that their sabotage comes from incompetence and dogmatic myopia. The mainstream Republicans and the Tea Party are respectively the Sunni and the Shi'a branches of the GOP, and we will never dig ourselves out of the suffering they cause us until they decide to love America more than they hate themselves.
OOh, good job comparing people who disagree with you to Islamic extremists! Problem with that comparison is that you liberals actually LIKE and SUPPORT Islamic extremists.
Your king Obama would be proud of your efforts to besmirch the 50% of the country that doesn't agree with your nonsense.
Who needs to dissent? When the American right wing continues to douse themselves with kerosine, we don't even need to hand them a match.
LOL - the lemmings on the left have lost the ability to dissent. They couldn't even if they wanted to - they are brainwashed by King Obama.
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