Top GOP senator won't dismiss talk of shutdown over immigration

[KamaAina]

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/224310-top-gop-senator-leaves-door-open-on-shutdown

A high-ranking Senate GOP leader on Sunday left the door open to a government shutdown if President Obama moves forward with unilateral action on immigration reform.

Asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace if Republicans would “take the bait” and shut down the government, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said “it doesn’t solve the problem, Chris, but look, we’re having those discussions.”

Thune noted that House and Senate leaders “are having discussions” on how to react if Obama takes action on the lightning-rod issue as soon as this week.

But the Senate Republican Conference chairman charged that Obama would be “choosing friction and partisanship … instead of cooperation (which) would make it difficult” for a GOP-controlled Congress to do immigration reform “or anything” over the next two years.

[LonePirate]

1. The 2013 shutdown did not hurt them politically so they will do it again.

Of course they will only shut down the government in odd numbered years when there are no elections.

[ffr]

2. Might as well count on it

Gov't shutdown from 01/21/15 - 2016 GOP campaigns begin.

And we can thank those around us who sat out the mid-terms for putting our nation into this forthcoming peril.

[Bandit]

3. Good ostrich...

Keep that head buried....

[ffr]

4. ?

Ostrich? Relevance?

[spanone]

5. proceed, senator

[pampango]

6. Boehner too put a government shutdown possibility back 'on the table' after saying it was not going

to happen. I think he is running scared, caught between Obama and his tea party base.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) gave no details last week on how Republicans will proceed, but said "all of the options are on the table."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/senate-democrats-immigration_n_6172078.html