Monday, November 17, 2014

Look What You Made Me Do

The Republicans are threatening to shut down the government again if President Obama takes executive action on immigration.  And it will be all the president’s fault if they do.

CHUCK TODD:

Very quickly on immigration. If the president goes through with his executive action, do you think Republicans and Capitol Hill ought to use even the power of shutting down the government to stop him from doing it?

GOV. BOBBY JINDAL:

Two things. I don’t think the president should shut down the government to try to break the Constitution. The reality is this. I do think the–

CHUCK TODD:

You think the president would be shutting down the government?

GOV. BOBBY JINDAL:

Oh, absolutely.

CHUCK TODD:

So you do want Republicans to fight him on this to the point that it could shut down the government?

GOV. BOBBY JINDAL:

Absolute– I don’t think the president should shut down the government.

So if President Obama does something the GOP doesn’t like — which at this point is anything at all — they will hold the government hostage and blame it all on him.

I think I saw something like this on The Blacklist, but at this point James Spader would just get bored with all the jibber-jabber, pull out a gun, shoot the bad guy and pour himself another glass of wine.

I think it’s particularly appropriate that the person putting forth this particular line of reasoning is Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) who once admonished his fellow Republicans to stop being the stupid party.  He skipped the part about being the ironic party, it seems.

HT Steve M.

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