House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Monday night on Fox News that he thinks government shutdowns have to stop.
McCarthy announced his candidacy for House Speaker Monday, after John Boehner said he plans to resign from the post in late October.
Fox host Bret Baier asked McCarthy if the government would shut down after a temporary approved spending bill — the solution on the table to a current shutdown — expires.
“No,” McCarthy said. “We’ve got to stop these. People look to Republicans, but we were doing our work. It was Schumer and Reid who said in the summer that they wanted to shut down government, that they devised the whole plan not to let the appropriation process pass.”
“We need to join together not just in our ideas but in a media plan. So those in America need to join with us,” McCarthy continued. “If we are to be successful, we need to be able to fight and win. Those are the ideas we need to bring.”
You sir are a lying bastard. The Democrats did NOT want a government shutdown. That was the Republican idea to get rid of ObamaCare.
Would that have anything to do with the great big Nothingburger with Cheese you guys had to choke down last time?
In case anyone whines that I’m lying, here’s what the Teabaggers were demanding:
On ALL of this the GOP got nada, zip, nothing but they DID end up costing us something on the order of $29 billion and agreed to talk to the Democrats about the budget after refusing for half a year.
I’m not TOO surprised they want to dump the tactic. I like how they suddenly shifted to “Ok, fuck it. How about the Keystone pipleline? Can we have that?”
All you have to do is refuse to talk to them until the government is funded. That’s all it takes.
He started off well, then went into bubbleland with his blatantly false Reid/Schumer accusation.
He already knows how to like like a GOP House Speaker. But that talk of no more shutdowns won’t fly with the TeaHeads, since they think that is a great source of power for them.
Very JEB-like…