GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa, in an interview with Laura Ingraham, openly admitted that the threat of government shutdown from some Republican camps was more of a strategy to gain maximum concessions from Democrats. Excerpts of the interview below:...
Read more …GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa, in an interview with Laura Ingraham, openly admitted that the threat of government shutdown from some Republican camps was more of a strategy to gain maximum concessions from Democrats. Excerpts of the interview below:
KING: We have not lead in a clear way. American people don’t know what House Republicans believe in, and they surely don’t know what we’re willing to fight for. And I am as disappointed as the public is... It’s clear to me that Speaker Boehner made a decision, either before, but I am convinced it was at least shortly after the election last November, a year ago last November, that we would not be in a position where we would be blamed for shutting down the government ... that’s the only place where you bring the leverage to this Congress, to take on Harry Reid and Barack Obama, is you have to be willing to face a shutdown and you have to have the debate among the American people.
INGRAHAM: You think that would have helped the Republican Party and you guys would be in a better position today if the government had been shut down?
KING: The shutdown isn’t the point so much as, I don’t want the shutdown either. But if you are afraid of the shutdown you can’t have the confrontation and you lose every negotiation along the way.
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