Republicans Finally Admit What The Shutdown Is About: Making The Tea Party Feel Better

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Republicans Finally Admit What The Shutdown Is About: Making The Tea Party Feel Better
October 3rd, 2013 9:28 am Jason Sattler

The conservative media began to report strange rumblings from Republicans on Wednesday, the second day of the government shutdown. Suddenly, Tea Partiers were saying that the government shutdown wasn’t about Obamacare, though they refuse to vote for a continuing resolution passed by the Senate because all their amendments related to the Affordable Care Act have been stripped out.

What is the shutdown about, then? What do Republicans want?

“We’re not going to be disrespected,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) told The Washington Examiner. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

I repeat: “And I don’t know what that even is.”

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“Listen,” Rep. Greg Walden (R_OR) reportedly told donors this week. “We have to do this because of the Tea Party. If we don’t, these guys are going to get primaried and they are going to lose their primary.”

So the shutdown isn’t just a monstrous gift to the presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), it’s a $300-million-a-day donation to the primary campaigns of Tea Party members of Congress.

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http://www.nationalmemo.com/republicans-finally-admit-what-the-shutdown-is-about-making-the-tea-party-feel-better/

Related DU thread here by DonViejo: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251327573

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1. Jesus Christ, who cares if the God damn tea party feels better!

you'll wreck the country in the process just to mollify a bunch crazy fuckers?

[City Lights]

2. Such babies!

Ugh. These cretins disgust me!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. You mean there are even more bat shit crazy people who might win a primary against these

Single cell organisms? I don't think so. Tell the GOP to tell the Tea Party types to fuck off.

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4. NRCC Chair Reportedly Says GOP Waged Shutdown Fight To Placate Tea Party

When pressed by Republican donors last month to explain why the party seemed willing to flirt with a government shutdown, Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) reportedly said that the tea party left the GOP with no choice.

The Daily Beast's David Freedlander reported on the comments by Walden, who serves as chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which came during a lunch event in New York City.

From Freedlander's report:

Why, they asked, did the GOP seem so in the thrall of its most extremist wing? The donors, banker types who occupy the upper reaches of Wall Street’s towers, couldn’t understand why the Republican Party—their party—seemed close to threatening the nation with a government shutdown, never mind a default if the debt ceiling isn’t raised later this month.

“Listen,” Walden said, according to several people present. “We have to do this because of the Tea Party. If we don’t, these guys are going to get primaried and they are going to lose their primary.”

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nrcc-chair-reportedly-says-gop-waged-shutdown-fight-to-placate-tea-party