Posted on 08/29/2014 5:55:49 AM PDT by maggief
Another government shutdown isn’t going to happen next month -- at least if you ask Republican leaders.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who’s facing a tough reelection challenge this fall, said turning the lights out in Washington is a “failed policy.”
“Remember me? I am the guy that gets us out of shutdowns,” he quipped to CNN. And Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team are ruling out a repeat of last October when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz led a conservative rebellion and forced the government to close for two weeks in a bid to defund Obamacare.
That proved to be a political disaster for congressional Republicans, who this fall want to avoid a massive midterm distraction as they try to take back control of the Senate and expand their majority in the House.
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot and jeopardize our chances of winning the Senate and gaining more seats in the House,” a senior GOP aide said Thursday. The shutdown chatter from some conservatives “clearly isn’t helpful, but I’m not anticipating there will be a groundswell of similar sentiment from a large chunk of our conference.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Spineless wimps.
How Democrats might goad the GOP into shutting down the government
The Week ^ | 08/27/2014 | Marc Ambinder
Posted on 08/27/2014 1:38:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama is expected to announce by mid-September whether he will circumvent a recalcitrant Congress and press ahead with immigration reform on his own terms. “Executive action,” as it’s come to be known, could be as robust and consequential as providing de-facto earned amnesty for millions of undocumented immigrants now living in the shadows. That decision would reverberate widely. Democrats have usually been afraid that if Obama decided to showcase the apogee of presidential power, the counter-reaction among conservatives and revanchists would cost Democrats an intolerably high political price.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3197698/posts
The problem with shutdowns is that they aren’t really shut-downs; they’re interruptions of services that are already poorly delivered; also, they’re paid vacations for government employees.
After a shutdown, piled up work is dealt with, slowly. There’s nothing accomplished, other than inefficiency and inconvenience.
Boehner doesn't have control of the House GOP caucus. If they want to have a rebellion, they will. And if they do, Boehner's only option is to bypass the Hastert rule and ask the democrats to pass it.
This freeper had a good idea.
All the House has to do is vote for appropriations. They should vote to fund the government at some level, preferably below the current level. No talk of shutdown,. Just pass a bill funding every department at some level and send it to the Senate. If Reid and the Senate vote no, it is the Senate shutting down the government, not the House. As long as no Republican gets off message and brags about provoking a shutdown they can win.
When Reid complains the bill doesn’t have enough spending or whatever, Boehner and the House leadership can state they have sent the Senate a bill to fund the government and they hope the Senate won’t play politics and hurt the people by shutting down the government. Turn the tables on Reid and Obama. Play the good guy and force Reid into a position where he votes to shut the government down. Tell the media and the people if Reid and the Senate want to propose more spending, they House will be happy to consider any supplemental appropriations bills the House a Democrats want toot ally introduce. For now the Senate must pass and the President must sign the bill already passed by the House in order to avoid a shutdown. We’ve done our job to fund the government. We encourage the Senate and the president to do theirs.
The Constitution gives the House control of spending. If the GOP can’t play a winning hand, the don’t deserve to be in power. They must learn how to play the game with finesse.
17 posted on 08/27/2014 7:48:44 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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Abdicating the power of the purse is a “failed policy” Mitch. It trashes the constitution and empowers executive dictators like Barry. The GOP is brain dead.
Good, time is on our side.
Oh? In the minds of liberals perhaps. But I'm guessing that is exactly WHY Republicans are poised to take over the Senate....because the shutdown focused attention on the truly evil Obamacare...
Not only that, the base didn't even support the GOP after this last "shutdown." I turned on Beck that morning expecting him to at least give some kudos to Congressional Republicans for taking a stand but only got bombarded with "defund the GOP" by him, Pat, and Stu.
“All the House has to do is vote for appropriations. They should vote to fund the government at some level, preferably below the current level. No talk of shutdown,. Just pass a bill funding every department at some level and send it to the Senate. If Reid and the Senate vote no, it is the Senate shutting down the government, not the House. As long as no Republican gets off message and brags about provoking a shutdown they can win.”
Then Reid sends it to a Senate budget committee which will amend the House bill and bring it to Senate Floor for a vote.
Reid sends it back to the House for them to vote on Reid’s amended budget bill.
The RATS have this down to a science, and you can’t win the game without controlling both the House and Senate.
If you are looking to Beck for anything resembling conservatism, keep looking.
That unfortunately seems to be the case more every day. Also, sorry for the double post I’m sure is to follow. Can’t figure out the smartphone browser.
That unfortunately seems to be the case more every day. Also, sorry for the double post I’m sure is to follow. Can’t figure out the smartphone browser.
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