Behind closed doors, Boehner tells GOP freshman how a shutdown works

[The Straight Story]

Behind closed doors, Boehner tells GOP freshman how a shutdown works
Dan Friedman National Journal April 1, 2011

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a closed-door meeting Thursday afternoon, exhorted freshman Republicans to "keep up the rhetoric" in the fight over funding the government this year and predicted that Democratic senators will give in to pressure from their constituents to make cuts.

"The more you keep on them, the more leverage I've got," Boehner told his charges. His remarks were audible to reporters outside a meeting room in the House basement.

He and other GOP leaders advised the freshmen that they did not know if the two sides can reach a deal by Friday. In a sign that Republicans are bracing for a possible government shutdown, Boehner responded to questions about what could happen. He described which "essential" components of the government would remain open, and noted that during the 1995 shutdown, the Social Security Administration was "able to process checks."


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He told the freshmen that "senators are not like you," noting that they represent constituencies that are more politically diverse because they are statewide. With pressure from voters eager for aggressive cuts, Boehner said, Democratic senators will start to crack.

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed0411/040111gop-shutdown-talk.htm

[Drale]

1. Its only a matter of time before

Boners head cracks open and the alien inside of him crawls out.

[DJ13]

4. Thats why boners are usually split on top

[annabanana]

2. Well THAT ought to pretty much expose who's ROOTING for a shutdown. .

No way they can nail the Democrats for this now..

[bullwinkle428]

3. Sun Tzu would pretty much give this guy a double facepalm with

regards to his battle "strategery"!

[JBoy]

5. Leeroy Jenkins would say he has no plan.

[Brigid]

6. Sun Tzu was definitely against picking fights, for one thing.

And he would ask the Republicans why they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. On Lawrence O'Donnell, this whole scenario was compared to the game of "chicken" in "Rebel Without a Cause," only this time one of the players (?) is genuinely suicidal.

[jillan]

7. Asshole.

[lonestarnot]

8. Lemme guess, he was reading tea leaves. Ickyleaker gona turn on a faucet when this is over.