Posted on 02/12/2014 11:05:35 AM PST by PaulCruz2016
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) defended Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday after the House passed a clean debt-limit bill that raised the ire of conservatives.
King branded as “morons” many conservatives in the GOP caucus who consistently oppose any effort to pass the debt limit, asserting they are the same faction that led to the government shutdown last year.
“This is the same group that back in September and October went into a government shutdown that everybody knew was a disaster,” King said on MSNBC. “They ended up looking like morons following Ted Cruz over the cliff.”
King had been one of the most vocal critics of the strategy that led to the government shutdown last year. He said the Speaker tried everything to get appease his members Tuesday.
However, many of them didn’t have the "guts" to vote on any proposal to raise the borrowing limit, King said.
“John tried everything,” he said. "I was so disgusted with people in the Republican conference. So many got up and said they knew they had to pass the debt ceiling, but they didn’t have the guts to vote for it. And they wouldn’t vote for anything. And that’s why he had to do what he did.”
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OK, thanks Jim.
I switched computers and now the time stamps on posts are Pacific time. Before they showed as Eastern.
My computer time is still Eastern.
At some point the anthems of the left will come around to bite them.
We’ve known for awhile there was a leak in the House who was telling Pelosi exactly what the GOP had in mind.
I suspect Peter King is that leak.
Why have a debt limit? It doesn’t MEAN ANYTHING ANYMORE!
DEAR GOD WHAT A FARCE THIS PARTY IS!
peter is just a nyc peter eater.
FUPK.
Typical RINO: Talk conservative, vote liberal “to get elected”. Asshole.
I have no use for quislings, Mr. King.
I think you missed the ‘irony’ in my statement.
Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have said it better, Peter!
They don't have a clue as to what a "government shutdown" is. It has never occurred. At best you can call it a government reduction in redundancy.
How was the government shutdown a “disaster.” It was proved right in a very big way by the incompetent ACA rollout. And it cut government spending, cost the ‘Rats political points for revenge shutdowns of national parks and monuments, and basically scared the bejeeses out of the elites of both parities. It was a good thing all around. Ted Cruz is standing very tall on this one.
You have to understand that, to a liberal -- or a big government RINO like King -- the government is more important than the people! To them, it is the government that is the nation and its people are but subjects.
Conservatives take the opposite view: the nation is the manifestation of the people and the government is our servant.
Accordingly, to a liberal, maintaining the government and its processes is their highest calling. That the people should force a government shutdown is, in effect, criminal.
He never seems happier than when he’s at his most unhappy.
Just to be clear, they aren’t spending your tax dollars. They are spending money your unborn grandchildren haven’t earned yet.
Hey Pete 199 actual American Republicans vot
ed no. You are moron and quisling.
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