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Title: Rep. Bachus: Obama might 'force' GOP to shut down government
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief ... ce-gop-to-shut-down-government
Published: Nov 2, 2010
Author: The Hill
Post Date: 2010-11-02 12:41:01 by go65
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Views: 19401
Comments: 31
A top House Republican said Monday President Obama might try to force a government shutdown to hurt Republicans. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), the top GOP member of the influential House Financial Services Committee, said Republicans should be prepared to be "brave" in the face of a shutdown. “I would think when we send the spending bills to the president he will veto them, and then the hard vote will be when he sends them back and we will be faced with another situation where he will probably try to force us to shut government down and we are going to have to be brave this time," Bachus explained on the Fox Business Network. Republicans are optimistic they will retake control of the House in Tuesday's elections, setting up a showdown between Obama and the GOP on taxes and spending, among other issues. Bachus could be chairman of the key committee if he's able to successfully fend of a challenge to his position when Republicans choose committee spots after the election. GOP leaders have said repeatedly they don't wish to force a shutdown, reminiscent of 1995's short shutdowns that resulted from an impasse between President Clinton and congressional Republicans, who suffered politically over the incident. "I don't think this country is desirous of seeing a government that shuts down," House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said on Friday. "I think that the people want to see a government that does what the people expect it to do, which is to limit itself in scope and to reduce spending and to reduce the uncertainty that this economy is suffering under right now." But Bachus's comments on Monday hint at early Republican posturing over a shutdown they might not necessarily want, but could be forced into if Obama takes a hard-line stance against congressional Republicans next year. Bachus sought to shoulder Obama with the blame and prevent the GOP from being tarred by a Democratic president. That was Clinton's tactic. "We wouldn't be shutting it down. We would be cutting out the excessive spending. And if the president wanted to shut the government down — but we would not shut the government down," he said. "But what we would do, we wouldn't allow him to force us to spend taxpayer dollars that don't need to be spent."
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#1. To: All (#0)
Just like Poland "forced" Germany to invade in 1939.....
You on the Left sure have a facination with Nazi Germany. Its bizzare.
this comes from a guy who's party endorses those who like to dress up in SS uniforms? OK.
Yep, it does come from me. For almost a decade your sides been tossing around 'Bushitler' crap. You really want to go down the 'party endorses' path? You kept a Klucker in the Senate for 51 years. Game, set and match.
signs from a tea party rally: And: The host of ABC Network’s Mark Levin Show (12/16/09) called the healthcare plan “Hitleresque.” Nothing new for Levin, who has been comparing Obama to Hitler since the campaign (10/29/08): “[Obama’s] really into these big German-like events that he creates in this country.” When the president wanted to speak to students early in September, Michael Savage, host of Talk Radio Network’s Savage Nation, cried indoctrination: “Hitler had the Hitler Youth and Obama would like to have the Obama Youth,” Savage said (11/25/08), adding that our country is “50 leagues below the degeneracy that brought about Hitler.” Savage (8/10/09) has fomented conspiracies of “internment camps,” claiming Obama plans to round up American citizens. Now what stupid point were you trying to make again?
You should be embarrassed, but democrats apparently have no conscience.
You should be embarrassed, but Republicans apparently have no conscience.
You're a racist besides being a dumbass? Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. As a further testament to his impeccable credentials, Professor Foner is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. Democrats in the last century did not hide their connections to the Ku Klux Klan. Georgia-born Democrat Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wrote on page 21 of the September 1928 edition of the Klan's The Kourier Magazine: "I have never voted for any man who was not a regular Democrat. My father … never voted for any man who was not a Democrat. My grandfather was …the head of the Ku Klux Klan in reconstruction days…. My great- grandfather was a life-long Democrat…. My great-great-grandfather was…one of the founders of the Democratic party." Dr. Foner in his book explores the history of the origins of Ku Klux Klan and provides a chilling account of the atrocities committed by Democrats against Republicans, black and white.
Dems supported the CSA in the Civil War, and filibustered the Civil Rights legislation in the 60's.
HIstory also shows the GOP used to support civil rights. Now, they call the CRA unconstitutional.
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#2. To: go65 (#1)
#3. To: Badeye (#2)
You on the Left sure have a facination with Nazi Germany. Its bizzare.
#4. To: go65 (#3)
#5. To: Badeye (#4)
(Edited)
Yep, it does come from me. For almost a decade your sides been tossing around 'Bushitler' crap.
Fox News Radio’s Tom Sullivan played a side-by-side comparison of a Hitler speech and an Obama speech (2/11/08), and Clear Channel’s Bill Cunningham, who has made similar comparisons (10/28/08), declared on his Cincinnati-based radio show (10/30/08) that “Jews [were] for McCain because Obama wants to gas the Jews, like the PLO wants to gas the Jews, like the Nazis gassed the Jews.” (The website of the group Media Matters, which extensively monitors right-wing electronic media, documents many of these examples.) Ann Coulter, as a guest on Hannity and Colmes (4/3/08), called Obama’s autobiography a “dime store Mein Kampf.” When Alan Colmes asked her if Obama was a “two-bit Hitler,” Coulter agreed. Colmes then asked: “We should be as wary of Obama as they should have been of Hitler in Nazi Germany?” Coulter admonished, “If only people had read Mein Kampf.”
#8. To: go65 (#5)
Now what stupid point were you trying to make again?
#9. To: Ibluafartsky (#8)
(Edited)
"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either,""
#10. To: go65 (#9)
You should be embarrassed, but Republicans apparently have no conscience.
#12. To: Ibluafartsky (#10)
History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.
#13. To: Badeye (#12)
History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.
#14. To: go65 (#13)
History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.
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