Posted on 10/01/2013 1:25:32 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Vote him out!
Of course he can never forgive Cruz, Cruz didn’t ask to be forgiven...what a dork King is..
Resign and be damned.
Just visited his FB page....not one positive post....he’s getting hammered!!!
This guy King is a kook. Geesh, he needs to chill out. Nothing worse than a neocon on the rag!
I don’t have time to notice every detail and I had trouble remembering which Representative King was the good guy.
I needed a mnemonic device, so I mentally placed their names side by side- Steve and Peter. The device immediately presented itself.
Me thinks Peter deserves a HPE (hot pepper enema)...perhaps Habanero or Ghost pepper preferred...ground or dried.
The best one I read was refering to King as a
“Non-essential Republican”.
As before the shutdown I still see the House Rs giving in eventually rather than Obama and Reid.
Already the Dems are all holding together 100% and are all aggressively repeating the same a set of well controlled points : ‘Terrorists’, ‘hostage takers’, ‘ransom’, "blow up enconomy'.
On the GOP side there already are a few Housr Rs on TV pleading with Bohner to put Reids CR up for a vote, we can assume not many freepers in their house districts. (one is from Northern VA which has lots of GS jobs now shutdown). We can expect more of that as time goes on.
In comparison Rs talking points are not well controlled like Dems are and they seem on the defensive in interviews, example : you dont see Dems promising to give up their salaries like Rs are when challenged by TV hosts.
However, Reid really stepped in it with his comment about not helping children with cancer and now we see the piece of garbage in the white house inviting congressional leaders to talk. I doubt anything gets done, but obviously obama's "I won't negotiate" isn't going over well.
The longer this goes the better it is for the Pubs.
The debt ceiling is right around the corner and I don't see this being resolved before that. At that point the pressure is all on obama. The House has remained in session and has been making all kinds of proposals. The Rats have done nothing. A week from now the Rat base is going to start getting nervous. They have bills to pay and they aren't working.
It's the weak in the knees Pubs that I worry about. The conservatives will hang in there.
If they cave ....even a wee bit..all hell is gonna break loose!!!!!!!!
We will be right in the middle LOL
Well ya, they both have very different types votes in their congressional districts whoes voters demand different things, Peter King's (LI NY) Versus Lou Gomert’s district TX are completely different.
But that is a reality that is not news. expect maybe for Rush listeners.
good lord what an egomaniac
Yes, I agree 100% I think them offering stuff Obama will reject is a great weapon not appreciated on talk radio, as with the target appropriations.. See : How Lee and Cruz are using the House compromise offers as weapons in TV interviews #16
,I think the debt limit merging with CR shutdown could be good or bad
Good because Obama’s claim debt limit bill is GOP congress paying its past bills is lame when he's demanding a specific CR all or nothing at same time and blaming GOP for shutdown, so how is it GOP bills to pay when Obama is attacking them for not spending?
Bad if GOP moderates panic on shutdown at the wrong time and Bohner was to cave on both at same time getting nothing
That would be a disaster and I would blame all Republicans for it.
The one neocon RINO I despise more than all is Grahmnesty.
At least King is somewhat honest in his attacks on Cruz wing. Not Grahmansety.
Grahamnesty does really cynical sleezy play acts on TV networks to play uber conservative to rally opposition to conservatives. Yet he agrees with libs on most issues
Or now he agrees with Obama on everything except he says we should be wasting $$$ attacking Syria right now, and Iran, and ....
Once upon a time Peter King mattered.
If you are talking about his Presidential campaign I think he’s carrying water for Christie or Jeb, attacking Cruz for them. He’ll drop out when he’s served his purpose.
Also he’s a lock for a job in the Hillary administration if she wins.
I think you've just described King to a tee, not Graham.
Graham does portray himself as a Reagan Republican in interviews and then goes and stabs the GOP in the back and vocally attacks the GOP for doing so-and-so, but Graham really hasn't gone on TV and played tough guy conservative warrior since the Clinton impeachment (where he faced King attacking him from the left). Certainly Graham does not have the "image" of a no-nonscene straight shooter in Washington. Graham has faced off against Paulbots on foreign policy, and portrayed himself as much more of a militant hard-liner, which he is, and votes accordingly. One reason why his previous challenger went nowhere in 2008 is that the guy was to the left of Obama on foreign policy and preached the ANSWER crowd talking points.
King, on the other hand, has the phony "conservative warrior" stuff down to a science, which is why he's stayed in power for 15 years. He portrays himself the lone guy in Washington who "understands" the "seriousness" of the terrorist threat, while in private he's had numerous ties and friendships with radical terrorist groups. He routinely trouts out all kinds of dog-and-pony shows when he's up for re-election, from announcing he's having a hearing to "investigate radical Muslims" in the U.S., to working the conservative talk shows (where he is greeted by fawning conservative talking heads) to promise he's going to fight the GOP leadership and go after illegal aliens. In all of these cases, he portrays himself as a tough-as-nails straight shooter who is fighting the GOP leadership for conservative principles. None of these "efforts" he lead to anything or amount to Jack Squat (it's like Donald Trump waiving the birther flag and promising he will "prove" Obama's real place of birth), but it does have the effect of rallying gullible conservatives to his side every election cycle.
That sounds like Grahamnesty and Mccain. Maybe King hasnt shown up on my radar screen because he’s just a single House member versus a Senator.
My favorite Grahmanesty story was ~ 2011 or 2012 when he went on a Sunday show to suggest that we change the US constititution to end birthright citizenship.
All it did was set off a firestorm agauinst Republicans and agaist opposition to immigration reform, and the MSM kept reporting it as ‘...Republicans are talking about...’ Of course Grahamnesty never mentioned it again having done his work.
But what a coincidence, Grahamnesty is one the most pro-amnesty in the congress.
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