Posted on 12/05/2014 5:08:37 AM PST by cotton1706
Rep. Raúl R. Labrador has a message for Republican leadership as they decide how to respond to the president’s executive action on immigration and funding the government beyond Dec. 11: Keep a government shutdown as an option.
“I don’t think anything is off the table,” Labrador told reporters at the Capitol Tuesday. “I don’t think anybody is thinking about a shutdown, but, in negotiations, you never take anything off the table. That’s the first rule of negotiating, and apparently it’s not one that’s been learned in Washington, D.C.”
Asked if leaders are too “gun shy” about a government shutdown, the Idaho Republican was clear.
“I think they are and I don’t understand why,” he said. “We had a shutdown a year ago, and we just got the biggest majority we’ve ever had in the House since 1928, and one of the largest majorities we’ve ever had in the Senate. So I don’t understand their reasoning for taking anything off the table.”
Labrador said GOP leadership was “very good” at kicking the can down the road. “But they never tell us once we get the can again, what’s going to be the next fight,” he said.
The conservative lawmaker, of course, has long criticized Speaker John A. Boehner and others for their immigration stance.
Members are calling leaders out for what they see as a chasm between tough talk against President Barack Obama’s immigration move and what Republicans actually are doing to prevent it.
Labrador said Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida told the Conference Tuesday that the rhetoric on the executive action and the Republican efforts to block it just don’t match. “And it’s impossible for us to tell the American people that we’re serious about this when we’re not doing anything that is serious,” Labrador said.
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Well, DUH.
Obola turned off the EBT cards as a warning shot to the GOPe: give me whatever I want, or my people will burn you out.
Four days later, the shutdown ended.
Obola is already inside their decision loop, and the GOPe wants their pensions intact. That's all there ever is or was to it.
If Labrador announces for Speaker of the HOR, it will force the constitutional conservatives to prove their rhetoric isn’t just campaign promises.
As long as Cryin’ John Boehner and Mitch “The Timid” McConnell are voted to lead this pathetic weakling of a political party, nothing will improve.
The “moderate” GOP is like Mary Landrieu, talking conservative when they run for office, and upon being re-elected, they do nothing that would go against King Barack I.
Congress can’t shut down the government unless it fails to pass a budget. If the president doesn’t sign a budget which the Congress passes, the president may shut down the government. But to say that Congress alone did it, when the president had it in hand to do otherwise but refused to do so, is political propaganda.
Congress can’t shut down the government unless it fails to pass a budget. If the president doesn’t sign a budget which the Congress passes, the president may shut down the government. But to say that Congress alone did it, when the president had it in hand to do otherwise but refused to do so, is political propaganda.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
“Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash’d all their sabres bare,
Flash’d as they turn’d in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder’d:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro’ the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel’d from the sabre stroke
Shatter’d and sunder’d.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made,
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
My congressman voted Boehner as speaker and had Boehner in the district to speak at a private fundraising event.
Then he goes on local talk shows and makes all kinds of conservative statements, knocks Obama and says he had to support Boehner for speaker or else Nancy Pelosi would have won.
If enough GOP members had stood up before the floor vote and said “We won’t support you” Boehner would have been forced out or have been responsible for allowing Pelosi to win on the floor vote.
Labrador should get in or someone should get in and throw down the gauntlet in Boehner’s face so we can pressure our local members of Congress like mine and flush out their fake conservative acts oncw and for all.
They continue to stay with the misguided “fact” that any shutdown of the government is their fault.
Obama, the other day, said he has no problem shutting down the government if he doesn't get his way.
I don't remember the exact words or the context, but he said it.
I agree with Labrador on this but not his long term congressional amnesty plans.
Steve King has derailed Labrador and Mulvaney’s plans to turn the Tea Party into an open borders group.
King decided that an wimpy indecisive openly admitted RINO is a better choice.
The last thing I want is Rand Paul or Trey Gowdy in leadership pushing amnesty lite.
Leadership alternatives are only really Jeff Sessions, Grassley, Vitter and in the house: Steve King(with the backing of the ethanol, wind and ag lobby).
Labrador my district rep. Go Raul!
I quite agree.
True, the government shutdown of October 2013 redounded against the GOP--principally because a left-leaning MSM portrayed it (wrongly) as a Republican-orchestrated shutdown--but I am not at all certain that the same result would occur next time.
And, in any case, it is really never a good negotiating tactic to begin be declaring precisely what one will not do...
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
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