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Karl Rove: GOP will ‘shoot themselves in the foot’ with shutdown
The Hill ^ | 09/17/2023 | Nick Robertson

Posted on 09/17/2023 7:40:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove warned House Republicans that they will only hurt themselves if they allow the government to shut down this fall amid budget battles within their conference and with the Senate and White House.

“Republicans are going to shoot themselves in the foot in the run-up to the 2024 election if they continue to think that shutdowns are a great way to put themselves in front of the American people,” Rove said in a Fox News interview on Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: gop; rove; shoot; shutdown
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You were completely wrong about the impeachment with Paxon. Take your predictions and your whiteboard and shove it.
1 posted on 09/17/2023 7:40:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Karl Rove is the Jim Cramer of politics. Whatever Carl says believe the opposite. Rove is a dirty dog that seeks to destroy all that is good and right and righteous and we need to recognize it. And to that point Fox News is in the same boat


2 posted on 09/17/2023 7:41:46 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: ChicagoConservative27

RINO


3 posted on 09/17/2023 7:44:55 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who is this now...? Oh the jerk with the stupid white board. I thought this statement was from somebody.
Tokyo Rove was probably behind the fake impeachment of Paxton; just sayin’


4 posted on 09/17/2023 7:45:14 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
To be fair, Mr. Rove is sometimes correct.


5 posted on 09/17/2023 7:45:19 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

better to shoot your own foot than to shoot the people in the head by doing nothing! Rove gives horrible advice and as bad as a predictor!


6 posted on 09/17/2023 7:46:38 AM PDT by big bad easter bunny
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To: spacejunkie2001

Its time we acknowledge that Bush was right about one thing - Rove really is a turd blossom.


7 posted on 09/17/2023 7:47:28 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How much are the deep state democRATS paying Rove to be wrong about everything? He’s like the Krugman of politics.


8 posted on 09/17/2023 7:47:59 AM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Canned ham with glasses.


9 posted on 09/17/2023 7:48:44 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ah, but Fedzilla NEVER shuts down, does it...

The parts Deep State chooses to keep running get deemed essential and continue merrily along bleeping the public.

The only parts that might be shuttered are thise that can be used to put the screws to Americans to get us to knuckle under.

Deep State has the only say in all of it.

Don’t believe me?

How’s about we call Deep State’s bluff and then watch what happens.


10 posted on 09/17/2023 7:50:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: skeeter

41 or 43


11 posted on 09/17/2023 7:51:25 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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What the hell difference does it make. If you’re given authority and you don’t use, it’s the same as if you lost the election. The GOP was given the authority to govern from the Representative side of the house and they should use EVERY ounce of effort to resist the democrats drive to ruin. If that means shutting down the government then shut it the @#%! down. If they’re not willing to use the authority given by the voters then why bother voting for them to begin with. Fight like a democrat and maybe you’ll get something done. Strategize like rove and the democrats will celebrate your mediocrity.

It’s like voting for who’s going to join the washington generals so they can be humiliated by the globe trotting democrats. The allegory gains clarity every year.


12 posted on 09/17/2023 7:51:33 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: big bad easter bunny

I vote for a very long shutdown.


13 posted on 09/17/2023 7:51:35 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For Karl Rove, there is never a good time to take a stand and fight.

And, I have to assume that the Republicans will cave this time also as they always have. That is why we are drowning in debt and the dollar is being destroyed.


14 posted on 09/17/2023 7:51:44 AM PDT by odawg
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From 2018...

Despite the Shutdown, the Government Is still Operating. Here's How.

15 posted on 09/17/2023 7:52:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Forever dumb. Pass a bill with your priorities and if he doesn’t want to sign it that’s really on him


16 posted on 09/17/2023 7:52:21 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Both.


17 posted on 09/17/2023 7:53:07 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Karl Rove sees the world through his Rose Tinted Glasses. I think George W. Bush gave them to him.


18 posted on 09/17/2023 7:54:46 AM PDT by rovenstinez ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Why is this densified asshat receiving any media mention.
19 posted on 09/17/2023 7:57:33 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I don’t like Rove. But, he’s probably right here.

Republican leadership will try to look strong. That will rally the Left. As soon as pressure builds, Republican leadership will collapse like wet cardboard. Result will be strengthening Democrat opposition and pissing off conservative voter support. Typical Republican lose-lose move.

Don’t get me wrong. I support major efforts to rein in government over reach and spending. Expecting our current Republican leadership to accomplish anything positive is wishful thinking.

Wish I had a solution. Doesn’t appear to be one presently.

20 posted on 09/17/2023 7:57:48 AM PDT by sjmjax
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