Posted on 04/08/2011 5:47:31 PM PDT by tobyhill
Are Republicans ready to declare victory in the shutdown showdown and move on?
For days, the assumption has been that Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio was dug into his hardened position on behalf of the conservatives in his House caucus and from socially conservative voices in the Republican Party.
But now — just hours before the first government shutdown in 15 years –some of the most vocal conservatives are urging Republicans to reach a deal before a shutdown occurs. That could give Mr. Boehner the political cover he needs to cut a deal with President Obama and the Democrats.
Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the founder of the Tea Party caucus in the House and a likely 2012 presidential candidate, wrote on Friday afternoon in a Twitter message: “I am ready for a big fight that will change the arc of history. The current fight in Washington is not that fight.”
In an article on Redstate, Ms. Bachmann concluded that “the current battle has devolved to an agenda that is almost too limited to warrant the kind of fighting that we’re now seeing in Washington.”
Likewise, Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a possible presidential candidate, said Friday afternoon in an interview with Fox Business News that a shutdown would “hurt the Republicans, not the Democrats.”
Mr. Huckabee, who was a favorite of religious conservatives during his 2008 presidential campaign, said: “Nobody’s more pro-life than me. Nobody. But as much as I want to see Planned Parenthood defunded, as much as I want to see NPR lose their funding, the reality is the president and the Senate are never going to go along with that. So win the deal you can win and live to fight another day.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Democrats did not pass a budget in October 2010 nor after the election in Nov or Dec and the GOP will get the blame.
If we are going to get the blame anyway I would not give up because it makes no sense otherwise.
My first inclination is to just call them p**sies.
Then I remember what’s on the line and call the traitors.
Likewise, Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a possible presidential candidate, said Friday afternoon in an interview with Fox Business News that a shutdown would “hurt the Republicans, not the Democrats.”
Huck...rhymes with something he should go do to himself.
Bachmann is being misrepresented. I heard her for myself on Hannity. She’s frustrated so much has already been given away and wants to talk trillions, not billions. She did not seem pleased, neither did Jim DeMint, he was on with her. They questioned whether Republicans will fight on the debt ceiling and the 2012 budget after handling of 2011.
No, not throwing in the towel. They made a statement to the Democrat party. The next two battles are what we must win - the 2012 budget and the 2012 elections.
She’s right. This is small potatoes, it’s NEXT years budget that is the one to go to the mat for.
I do see Bachmanns point. Choose the battle; this ain’t it.
They want the Tea Party to become the “Blacks” of the Republican Party....No thanks!
You are right. I was at an event with Ward Connerly last evening; he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for GOP to fight on this hill. We must keep indies in our camp to get rid of Obama in 2012.
I heard her myself on Hannity. She re-explained herself thinking that Sean mis-understiood her.
She said exactly what's in this article
A lot of people here no longer have any hair, they have pulled it all out on everyone of the maybe, might, etc, etc, stories, with none of the so called quotes pertaining to the actual story.
NYT, true to form, just being the NYT. Freak out the conservatives, balcanize the congressional Republicans and break the news in the most inflammatory way to cause a row.
We either hang together or hang separately. The large stuff is down the pike as Bachman explained, like OBAMACARE. If that doesn’t go down, we’re cooked, but we’ve quit talking about it and are all teed up over the theatre going on with Boehner and Reid.
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