This just might be artful agiprop. Stain...slowly...every right-leaner in media. The left hate them. This trick is to make Hume and others’ fans hate them, too.
This ‘article’ is real slick.
Doubtful. Hume is really rather dreadful, the moniker of RINO hardly defines him. His disdain for ALL things conservative is so obvious.
That was my initial impression, too. Who is this unnamed writer, and why should we believe all of her (or his) insinuations just because they are posted on the Internet? I'm fairly sure that Brit Hume takes the shortsighted Chamber of Commerce side on the immigration debate, but this so-called "Bookworm" -- who self identifies as a non-Conservative -- has gone to some lengths to poison the water between Hume and those with whom he agrees 90% of the time. It's what I would do if I were an unscrupulous leftist and trying to do the most damage to my recently-victorious enemies.
Separately, I don't understand why so many people act as though any exercise of the House of Representative's "power of the purse" automatically equates to a "shutdown" of the federal government. If the GOP House is serious about doing its job, it will pass separate bills for each of the Executive departments, which the new GOP Senate can pass and send separately to the president. Only an "omnibus" budget monstrosity forces such high stakes showdowns, and the GOP will soon have both gavels and comfortable majorities -- and no excuse not to return to regular order in departmental budgeting.