Red State editor Erick Erickson on Tuesday wrote that Republicans should go ahead and bring the federal government to the brink of a shutdown over immigration and Obamacare.
Erickson argued that though many were concerned that the last shutdown would reflect poorly on the GOP, the party still dominated in the midterm elections. And as long as a shutdown doesn’t hurt Republican lawmakers, then it’s totally a great idea, he wrote.
“Every horror story every talking head within the GOP Establishment trotted out to scare congressmen and senators into caving turned out to be crap,” Erickson said.
He did say that Republicans need good reason to shut down the government, though.
“I am not suggesting the GOP just say ‘to heck with it’ and shut down the government. What I am suggesting is that the GOP pass everything except Obamacare funding and funding for any immigration actions the President wants to take,” he said.
The conservative pundit then trotted out one of the main conservative takeaways from the election: Republicans were elected to stop President Obama at all costs.
“[T]he voters did not elect the GOP to do any part of their own agenda,” he wrote. “The GOP did absolutely nothing but run on ‘we are not Obama.’ If that is the image they rebuilt, then they need to not be Obama and need to not fund Obama’s agenda.”
And so Erickson called on congressional Republicans to simply stop Obama.
“So set the course. Defund Obamacare and block amnesty. Obama can defy the will of the people and refuse to work with Congress. Sure, the GOP may get blamed. But so what?” he said. “Block Obama. Let him show himself again to be the petulant man-child Americans have started recognizing. And this time, when he shuts down the government, keep it shut till you have your way and then hold public hearings to show how Obama selectively shut things down to hurt the voters intentionally.”
Nihilism is a helluva drug.
“man-child”
Teatroll Rosetta Stone says: “BOY”
Repubs: Only the 2010 and 2014 elections have consequences.
“Let him show himself again to be the petulant man-child Americans have started recognizing?” Does this show a deeper racial hate?
Here is what I don’t understand. Obama’s executive action could be as simple as, ‘don’t deport anyone anymore’. In that case, what precisely does the Republican party defund? How do you defund not doing something? Defunding ICE (or whatever they are calling themselves these days) actually helps the president’s goal.