Posted on 06/11/2014 6:39:13 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Representative Peter King (R-NY) warned on Morning Joe Wednesday morning that the Rand Paul/Ted Cruz wing of the Republican Party would use House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) surprise defeat last night to push a far-right agenda bent on shutting the government down.
“My concern is a lot of things are going to be dead and pushed aside,” King said. “I’m concerned that the Ted Cruz supporters, the Rand Paul supporters, are going to use this as an excuse to basically stop the government from functioning. Thank god there’s no debt ceiling bill coming up. Thank god there’s no way to shut the government down in the next few months, because I think we’ll get bogged down in those side issues. I think we’re going to see basically the status quo over in the next six months.”
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“What Ted Cruz did last year was suicidal,” King said, alluding to the Cruz-engineered government shutdown that cost the GOP mightily in the polls last October. “I hope that doesn’t become party policy. So we can’t allow Eric’s defeat last night allow the Ted Cruzes and Rand Pauls to take over the party, or their disciples to take over the party. Because this is not conservative to me. Shutting down the government down is not conservative.”
Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:
So we can’t allow Eric’s defeat last night allow the Ted Cruzes and Rand Pauls to take over the par
He’s right on about Rand Paul
GO CRUZ
Hey, King! How can Cruz or Paul stop anything in the Senate/Gubment? Harry Reid won’t bring anything up to stop! Oh, and Mr. King, you, sir, are a friggin’ moron!
He is. Steve can get a nice assignment should an ally get into leadership. More conservative influence :D
Peter King is , just like Democrats, always pissed about something.
Sounds good to me.
“Stop government from functioning” - he says that like it’s a bad thing.
DO NOT TRUST RAND PAUL!
If by “functioning” you mean dream act, out of control EPA, IRS, and NSA then, Yes.
Peter King is a man with some rather diffuse and ill defined moral boundaries. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the IRA when it was killing random people on a regular basis.
Why hasn’t Peter King switched parties, already?
This is the other ‘King’, the evil one.
And so predictable:
“What Ted Cruz did last year was suicidal,” King said, alluding to the Cruz-engineered government shutdown that cost the GOP mightily in the polls last October. .... Shutting down the government down is not conservative.”
IT WAS NOT ***SHUTTING DOWN*** GOVERNMENT YOU MORON! IT WAS DEFUNDING OBAMACARE!
“My concern is a lot of things are going to be dead and pushed aside,” King said.”
Great!
It would be far more honest for King to run as a democrat.
My thoughts too! lol!!!
It appears to me that King is out of touch with the majority of the American people he is supposed to represent.
Does King realize that a "lot of things" need to be dead and pushed aside, especially because they are destroying our culture, our constitutional form of government, and our economy?
We recommend that Mr. King take a time out to reflect on his lack of common sense, and to reflect of what the people who elected him to office want him to do. He appears to be an out-of-touch establishment Republican.
Get out of D. C. for awhile Mr. King; talk to your constituents, not those giving you the big money, but the "little people" like the masses of ignored veterans, jobless, hopeless, worried formerly middle class voters.
Well, they are quoting Monsieur King, aren’t they?
To Monsieur, God is god.
And this is a BAD thing??
Indeed, nobody is that great!
Considering 90% of what our FedGov is currently doing far exceeds it's Constitution mandate?
Shut it all down.
Paul, Cruz Will Use Cantor Loss to ‘Stop Gov’t from Functioning’
And this is a bad thing? What good have they done for us?
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