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Pelosi lays groundwork to blame GOP for government shutdown

February 18, 2011 by B. Daniel Blatt

Seems instead of coming up with solutions for our nation’s dire fiscal situation, Democrats are tearing a page from the last successful Democratic president’s playbook and playing politics instead.  Jonathan Allen reports in the Politico that a “high-ranking aide to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Democratic chiefs of staff that a government shutdown is more likely than not“.  This squares nicely with his boss’s recent statement:

Yesterday Pelosi told reporters that if there is a government shutdown, responsibility will fall on Republicans’ shoulders.

“It is a failure. It’s really a failure to say we have taken the leadership of the Congress of the United States and the first thing we’re going to do is shut down the government to the detriment of our people, to our security and to our country’s future,” she told reporters.

A government horizon is only at present on the very distant horizon and already Pelosi is starting to blame Republicans.  While some conservative organizations have called for a government shutdown, most of the talk of such a shutdown comes from Democrats.  Seems that they’ve run out of ideas on how to address our nation’s problems, so they’re resorting to old political tricks.  Or perhaps they know their solutions don’t find favor with the American people, so they need make Republicans looks like big, bad meanies who are even worse than they.

Hey, it worked in 1995-96.

Filed Under: Big Government Follies, Blame Republicans first, Congress (112th)

Comments

  1. ThatGayConservative says

    February 18, 2011 at 4:02 pm - February 18, 2011

    The liberals are the only ones who believe a government shutdown is a bad thing.

  2. ILoveCapitalism says

    February 18, 2011 at 4:07 pm - February 18, 2011

    Hey, it worked in 1995-96.

    Yeah. They’re counting on Republicans to be afraid and give in.

    But this time is different: our fiscal situation is far more dire, and with courageous leadership, Americans will support fixing it. I’m hoping Republicans will realize that, and stay strong.

  3. ILoveCapitalism says

    February 18, 2011 at 4:09 pm - February 18, 2011

    (continued) So, Pelosi is right. The Democrats are the party of literally fleeing town in order to not have to face the budget problems. If there is a showdown, it will only be because Republicans did stay strong. Thus, in the inverted logic of the Left, Republicans will be to blame.

  4. Sebastian Shaw says

    February 18, 2011 at 5:22 pm - February 18, 2011

    It won’t work today for 2 reasons:

    1) President Obama & the Obama Democrats are leading for a government shutdown.

    2) We have 16% unemployment & job stagnation.

    Obama will get the blame, despite the MSM’s spin.

  5. DaveO says

    February 18, 2011 at 6:04 pm - February 18, 2011

    Been given to understand a number of Republican representatives volunteered to be primaried by voting against cuts.

  6. Jax Dancer says

    February 18, 2011 at 8:40 pm - February 18, 2011

    So, Pelosi neglected to pass a budget under her reign over the House of Representatives, then gets to blame the successive party – which does what she FAILED to do by passing a budget – when her own party fails to pass it through the Senate and/or the President, who is of her own party, vetoes the package?

    I’m obviously missing something here, aren’t I?

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