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Posted on 09/14/2010 10:24:40 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
A prominent Republican congressman raised the specter Friday of a government shutdown if the GOP wins control of the House.
Speaking to hundreds of activists gathered at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for the Faith and Freedom Conference, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) urged the audience to stand with House Republicans when they go toe-to-toe with President Barack Obama.
Westmoreland said his caucus — presuming it takes control of the House come November — aims to pass spending bills that Obama is likely to veto. He predicted Republicans would not be able to override such a veto, creating a standoff that could cause Congress to grind to a halt.
“If the government shuts down, we want you with us,” he said.
The congressman recalled a similar shutdown that took place in 1995, when Newt Gingrich — also a speaker at the conference — was serving as House speaker. A future standstill could temporarily close national parks or delay payments from the government, Westmoreland speculated.
“We have put Band-Aids on some things that need to be cleaned out,” he said. "That is going to take some pain. There’s going to have to be some pain for us to do some things that we’ve got to do to right the ship."
As a vice chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Westmoreland has helped with candidate recruitment for congressional races. He said the group has tried to enlist candidates who are more interested in tackling the country’s problems than getting reelected in 2012.
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Exactly. Like the idea that it is not “Nancy’s House.” It’s “Our House of Representatives”. They represent US.
Notice that this article is four days old. I haven't seen it get picked up anywhere else.
Cynthia Tucker covered it in an opinion piece in today’s AJC. But that just means she covered it in liberal newspeak and it isn’t worth posting or reading, frankly.
I’d be happy to see that kind of standoff and I am SURE I am nowhere close to alone.
I say shut it down, and to HELL with the MSM. The end result will be favorable in the long term whether it’s recognized or not by the public in the near term, because of the MSM.
We have to punch the Leftist bastards in the nose, make them bleed, and run to mommy so we can take the helm, and redirect the ship from the rocks.
I think Rep’s could make serious hay out of this. “We will temporarily see Gov’t shut down before we allow zero and company to recklessly spend anymore of your money” or “Better to shut down big government than let it shut down small business through overspending”
There is nothing stopping us from going to DC and preventing the lame duck congress from ruining our country further, we just have to have the guts to do what is necessary to stop it.
“There is nothing stopping us from going to DC and preventing the lame duck congress from ruining our country further, we just have to have the guts to do what is necessary to stop it.”
We’ll need to be prepared to do this...it WILL take millions descending upon DC tho...
Lynn Westmoreland ROCKS!!! I wish he were my Rep.
“And the media will run endless articles touting the misery caused those poor Government SEIU workers because of it, just as they did under Gingrich.
Without a MEDIA CAMPAIGN to go with it, it will be a disaster, just like it was under Clinton.”
But now we own the internet! It won’t work like it did in ‘94
Too much information out here now. Such as the $800K for the African men to wash their dicks! after screwing a Drunk whore!
Works for me, I’ve got enough money to live on for a few months.
Agree. This is not 1995. The people are just short of pitchfork angry.
The fact remains that the Journolib media/government/union complex will go apoplectic, so the pubbies had better be ready. By later next year I hope the new Conservative House has learned which media outlets to exploit and which to ignore. Why any pubbie bothers appearing on the dino Sunday talk shows (other than FNN) is beyond comprehension.
HORRORS! Anything but that!
Or... build a mosque on top of it! (Just kidding...)
Will they shut off Niagara Falls? I'd like to see it that way...
Georgia Ping.
Ground Air Force 1 & 2.
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