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.99center

(1,237 posts)
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 07:34 PM Jan 2018

Fox host: You cant blame Dems for shutdown when youre in charge of everything

https://shareblue.com/fox-host-shep-smith-you-cant-blame-dems-for-shutdown-when-youre-in-charge-of-everything/
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7rjd06/fox_host_you_cant_blame_dems_for_shutdown_when/

Fox News is not typically known for criticizing Republicans.

But on Thursday, Shepard Smith, who has been notable for debunking the Trump camp’s fake talking points, cast a light on the GOP’s cowardly strategy of passing the buck for an impending shutdown.

“Back in Washington, there is one discussion: government shutdown,” said Smith. “Of course, with one party in charge of everything, a government shutdown will not happen, right? I mean, never in the history — at least modern history — of the country has there been a government shutdown when a single party is in charge of Washington.”

The last time the government shut down while under the control of one party, Jimmy Carter was president. The government shut down five times between 1977 and 1979. But Democrats then proceeded to lose the White House and the Senate, so this example hardly bodes well for Republicans.
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Fox host: You cant blame Dems for shutdown when youre in charge of everything (Original Post) .99center Jan 2018 OP
Some do (I've heard; I never watch.) elleng Jan 2018 #1
The both sides BS was being repeated endlessly by CNN and MSNBC's anchors .99center Jan 2018 #2
Yes it was; elleng Jan 2018 #3
I knew it'd be Shepard Smith renate Jan 2018 #4
Wow.. Shep Smith does it again.. how does Cha Jan 2018 #5
1 turncoat for every 100 GOP apologists? ProudLib72 Jan 2018 #6

.99center

(1,237 posts)
2. The both sides BS was being repeated endlessly by CNN and MSNBC's anchors
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 07:48 PM
Jan 2018

They're doing something wrong when Shep over at Fox makes them look like conservatives.

Cha

(295,929 posts)
5. Wow.. Shep Smith does it again.. how does
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 08:32 PM
Jan 2018

he get away with that truth tellin' on faux?!!

Mahlao, 99

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
6. 1 turncoat for every 100 GOP apologists?
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 08:37 PM
Jan 2018

The odds of Smith ever getting through to the brain dead masses who soak up Faux 24/7 are slim.

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