Dennis Ross, GOP Rep: 'Pride' Is Why Republicans Won't Budge On Government Shutdown

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Dennis Ross, GOP Rep: 'Pride' Is Why Republicans Won't Budge On Government Shutdown

by Sabrina Siddiqui at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/05/dennis-ross-government-shutdown_n_4050231.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- With the government shutdown in its fifth day, many Republicans have conceded the fight is no longer about Obamacare. Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.) added his name to the list on Saturday, saying the matter now boils down to "pride."

“Republicans have to realize how many significant gains we’ve made over the last three years, and we have, not only in cutting spending but in really turning the tide on other things," Ross told The New York Times. "We can’t lose all that when there’s no connection now between the shutdown and the funding of Obamacare."

"I think now it’s a lot about pride," he added.

The fight over keeping the government open began with Republicans insisting that any funding bill include anti-Obamacare provisions, starting with a full-fledged campaign led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to defund the health care law. When that plan was rejected by the Senate, House Republicans offered a series of spending bills that continued to chip away at Obamacare; their final offer included a one-year delay of the law's individual mandate and a ban on federal health care subsidies to members of Congress and their staffs.



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[Pakhet]

1. Pride goes before the fall

And I hope they fall far and hit hard

[Spazito]

2. It's not fucking 'pride', it's out and out cowardice...

on the part of the majority of House repubs who can't stand up to the 40 crazy teapublicans in their midst.

Cowardly assholes, all of them, imo.