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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: 19458
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?
#6. To: go65 (#5)
You should be embarrassed, but democrats apparently have no conscience.
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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)
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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.”
Replies to Comment # 5. Yep, it does come from me. For almost a decade your sides been tossing around 'Bushitler' crap.
#8. To: go65 (#5)
Now what stupid point were you trying to make again?
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