Rep. Steve King fesses up to hostage taking.

[pappy]

Quoted by Greg Sargent at the Washington Post he had this to say to Laura Ingraham:

Quote: KING: We have not lead in a clear way. American people don’t know what House Republicans believe in, and they surely don’t know what we’re willing to fight for. And I am as disappointed as the public is...

It’s clear to me that Speaker Boehner made a decision, either before, but I am convinced it was at least shortly after the election last November, a year ago last November, that we would not be in a position where we would be blamed for shutting down the government ... that’s the only place where you bring the leverage to this Congress, to take on Harry Reid and Barack Obama, is you have to be willing to face a shutdown and you have to have the debate among the American people.

INGRAHAM: You think that would have helped the Republican Party and you guys would be in a better position today if the government had been shut down?

KING: The shutdown isn’t the point so much as, I don’t want the shutdown either. But if you are afraid of the shutdown you can’t have the confrontation and you lose every negotiation along the way.

Link thingy: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum..._blog.html

[Ikonoklast]

I would have gone on national television and told the public that I was calling their bluff, and that the Republican Party will not negotiate in good faith, and they want this government shut down.

I'd give them what they want.

I don't think a one of them has the balls to vote for that.

[jaxx]

Those antics by the pubs caused the country to lose its AAA credit rating. What would have happened if they had really got it shut down?