Posted on 10/11/2013 5:36:14 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 11, 2013
By STEPHEN MOORE
"I really believe we are in a great position right now," says Michael Needham, the 31-year-old president of Heritage Action, the lobbying arm of the nation's largest conservative think tank. By "we" he means the Republican Party and the conservative movement; their "great position" refers to the potential to win the political battle over the government shutdown.
Though Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is the public face of the high-risk strategy to "defund" ObamaCare, the masterminds behind it are a new generation of young conservatives, chief among them Mr. Needham. From a tactical view, the strategy has been deployed with precision. In August, only Mr. Cruz and a band of renegade tea-party Republicans in the House favored this approach, and the media collectively scoffed. But by September, House Republicans couldn't pass a budget without attaching the defunding rider that has grounded much of government.
"We rallied the conservative grass roots across the country," Mr. Needham says, and ran ads in more than 100 districts on the health law. It worked. During the August recess, these activists demanded that their members of Congress stop ObamaCare.
To most observers, who think the GOP is losing this fight, Mr. Needham's optimism that Republicans will carry the day may seem astonishing. But Mr. Needham says the second-guessers are wrong....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Posting from an an iPhone but when I get home this article is getting forwarded to Peter King and other like minded dips who want to know what the strategy is. I hope many, many Freepers do likewise.
Excellent!
Mark Levin: Wall Street Journal Poll Showing Shutdown Has Hurt Republicans A “Fraud”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3077887/posts
I guess I don't get it. What is high risk is letting Obama and his corrupt cadre enslave the nation with the shackles of Obama-care. I suppose for the RINOs the risk is that they might have to lose their butler and chauffeur in DC.
“I really believe we are in a great position right now,” says Michael Needham
We will let Obama run again in 2016
Reading the article would help.
bttt
Very worthy article.
There is your plan you RINO B#@tards. Follow it or get out of the way.
That's not what he's saying. How do you come up with that?
Bfl
Precisely!
I would say a majority of the Senate Republicans and a third of the house Republicans are tired of being harassed by Heritage.org, freedom works, Senate conservatives fund.
I’ll whip out my tiny violin.
"On the latest offer from House Republicans—a short-term extension of the debt ceiling—Mr. Needham calls it a shrewd move by Speaker John Boehner: 'We've got to get back to the discussion of ObamaCare, not the typical Washington food fight.'""
That is EXACTLY the reason for the 6-week extension - to keep the focus on Obamacare.
I hope they keep the government shut down.
Gas was 3.68 a few weeks ago. Now it’s 2.99 and going down every day.
That NBC/WSJ poll seems to have spooked many in the GOP who are not in all red districts, or all red states. Better not have more of those.
King is certainly playing it up.
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