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Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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On Friday at the Faith and Freedom Conference and Strategy Briefing, a convention for conservative activists, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., a vice chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, discussed how a Republican-controlled House of Representatives might lead to a stand-off on spending that leads to a government shutdown.

The White House has seized on this as an example of how the Republicans are a party of the past and how voting for House Republicans in the midterms will mean “the same stalemate and gridlock they brought the last time they were in charge.”

At the conference, after Westmoreland mentioned a similar shutdown in 1995 during the era of then-Speaker newt Gingrich R-Ga., the crowd started applauding.

"That's what I wanted to hear!” Westmoreland said. “A good clap for that!"

“If we hold the line, if we get those courageous men and women to be part of our majority, if we say: ‘Look, we’re in a partnership with the American people, we’re listening to the American people,’ this is what we’re going to do. If government shuts down, we want you with us,” Westmoreland said. “We want you with us.”

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer mentioned how Republicans had blocked a small business lending initiative “(b)ut for any who thought that blocking even such common sense measures was the limit of how far Republicans in Congress could go in putting partisanship ahead of getting Americans back to work, the Vice Chairman of the House Republicans’ campaign committee (the NRCC) was across town making clear that they were prepared to go much further.”

Pfeiffer noted that this was not “the first time shutting down the government has been put forth by prominent conservatives.”

Gingrich, for example, earlier this year at a breakfast sponsored by The American Spectator and Americans for Tax Reform, said if the GOP recaptures the House and Senate its leaders should refuse to fund the health care bill.

Republican pollster Dick Morris has said similar things, writing in The Hill in April that a GOP-controlled Congress pushing for tax cuts, ”will lead to exactly the same sort of government shutdown – when Obama vetoes the budget – as discredited the GOP in 1995-1996 and led to Clinton’s re-election.”

But Morris who worked with Clinton at the time, predicted that this time “history will not repeat itself. The Republicans will win this confrontation with the White House.

Seizing on Westmoreland’s comments to paint the Republicans as a party of the past, Pfeiffer wrote that while President Obama “is offering a vision about how to move the country forward and help middle class Americans and small business owners, Republicans in Congress are busy telling partisans and Republican party activists to get prepared for the same stalemate and gridlock they brought the last time they were in charge.”

So the GOP "plan" for America is to do just what they did before; stop the government from working at ALL? Great plan...


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off





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