{"id":3505,"date":"2010-11-05T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/government-shutdown-2\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:58:00","slug":"government-shutdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/government-shutdown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

ThinkProgress \u00bb Congressman-Elect Tim Walberg Calls For Government Shut Down If Obama Doesn\u2019t Follow His Mandate<\/a> <\/p>\n

While Walberg\u2019s [Tim Walberg (R-MI), a proud birther<\/a>] threat is extreme, he is not the only Republican politician proposing a government shutdown. Newt Gingrich, architect of the government shutdown in the \u201990s, has pledged<\/a> that the new Republican Congress will close the government as a political tactic to force through their right-wing policies. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) told a Republican audience recently that a government shut down \u2014 including a closure of the Veterans Administration \u2014 would be one of the goals<\/a> of the new GOP caucus. As Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and other leading Republicans have made clear, they will force a \u201cshow down<\/a>\u201d with Obama by holding general government funding bills hostage until health reform is repealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ThinkProgress \u00bb Congressman-Elect Tim Walberg Calls For Government Shut Down If Obama Doesn\u2019t Follow His Mandate<\/a><\/p>\n

ThinkProgress \u00bb Conservatives In Their Own Words: \u2018The Republican Party Is Not The Beneficiary Of A Mandate\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The idea that Republicans did not receive a mandate isn\u2019t just held by the president \u2014 it was a theme echoed throughout the night by Republican politicians and conservative pundits: <\/p>\n

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\u2013 Senator-elect Marco Rubio (R-FL): \u201cWe make a grave mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican Party.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2013 Fox News pundit Brit Hume: \u201cThe Republican Party is not the beneficiary of some mandate this time around.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u2013 Former chief economic policy adviser to John McCain\u2019s presidential campaign Douglas Holtz-Eakin: \u201cThis isn\u2019t a pro-Republican vote. This is a repudiation of what we\u2019ve seen the past two years, it\u2019s not an endorsement of Republican agendas.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2013 RNC head Michael Steele: \u201cThere\u2019s still the people who say, \u2018well we\u2019re not sure. We\u2019re not sure about Republican leadership, we\u2019re not sure about the direction<\/strong>.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2013 Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI): \u201cThis is not necessarily \u2018we love Republicans.\u2019<\/strong> This is, \u2018change course, the country\u2019s on the wrong track.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

ThinkProgress \u00bb Conservatives In Their Own Words: \u2018The Republican Party Is Not The Beneficiary Of A Mandate\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ThinkProgress \u00bb Congressman-Elect Tim Walberg Calls For Government Shut Down If Obama Doesn\u2019t Follow His Mandate While Walberg\u2019s [Tim Walberg (R-MI), a proud birther] threat is extreme, he is not the only Republican politician proposing a government shutdown. Newt Gingrich, architect of the government shutdown in the \u201990s, has pledged that the new Republican Congress … Continue reading Government Shutdown<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}