GOP: Republicans must shut down the federal government

[UCmeNdc]

Senator Mike Lee says Republicans must shut down the federal government and refuse to open it unless President Obama defunds his own health care reform law. That sounds completely insane, but (as I note in my story) Marco Rubio has endorsed the same position. According to Lee, “a corresponding effort is starting to be kicked off in the House.”


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Meanwhile, Steve Stockman is circulating a discharge petition in the House to force John Boehner to create a select committee to investigate Benghazi. Boehner has favored handling Benghazi, which is more of a conspiracy theory than an actual investigation, through numerous committees, muffling its impact while lending the investigations a sheen of normality. Conservatives want a single, select committee, no doubt run by the truest-believing conservatives, to run the hearings in the most high profile way, and in keeping with the base's certainty of the administration's guilt:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/today-in.html



Vote The Bums Out!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Part of me hopes that they actually go through with this

That will end their dreams of a Senate majority pretty quick IMHO.

[Shadowflash]

2. how did President Obama put it..

...during that last debate with Romney when Romney thought he was gonna drop the bomb on him?

Oh, yeah.

'Please proceed'.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Yeah

I hope that they do

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. This is why the public has a dim view of Congress!