I usually don’t link to Talking Points Memo, but it in this case I’ll use them like Client #9. Republicans in D.C. House of Representatives have it in their power to defund a piece of garbage law that an overwhelming majority of Americans hate. Because of it health care costs are going through the roof, millions of Americans are losing their healthcare coverage, and small businesses are getting their teeth kicked in.
The GOP could stop IF we had enough Patriots with backbone to do it. Unfortunately, there are too many soft and spineless cowards like Tom Cole clogging the halls of congress instead of real men!
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), a deputy majority whip, has taken to the airwaves over the last 24 hours to pour cold water on GOP attempts to demand that the party withhold support for keeping the federal government open after Sept. 30 unless Obamacare is gutted.
He has dismissed the conservative effort as a “temper tantrum” and likened it to “blackmail.”
“Seems to me there’s appropriate ways to deal with the law, but shutting down the government to get your way over an unrelated piece of legislation is political equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum,” he said Wednesday on Fox News. “It’s just not helpful. And it is the sort of thing that creates a backlash and could cost the Republicans the majority in the House, which is after all the last line of defense against the president. And it could materially undercut the ability of the Republicans in the Senate to have the majority in 2014 which they have a decent chance to do.”
Cole made the same point to National Review in an article published Thursday.
“I don’t think you ought to try to blackmail the administration on a fight that they won politically in the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court by threatening to shut down the government,” he said.
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