Shutdown is putting pressure on GOP moderates

[JimH52]

Government shutdown puts squeeze on Republican moderates - latimes.com

That is putting a tough political squeeze on Jon Runyan, the former NFL tackle who represents this town in Congress, and a handful of other Republican lawmakers from the Philadelphia region — part of a small and dwindling band ofGOP moderates.

"Jon is sort of torn between party loyalty and what's good for his district," said Carl Golden, a former spokesman for two Republican New Jersey governors and an analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy in Galloway, N.J. "I'm sure he can't be happy right now, the way this thing is going."

Runyan is one of seven House Republicans from the area who have said it's time to end the party's effort to halt the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare, in exchange for continued funding of the government. "Enough is enough," Runyan said Tuesday after the shutdown began, adding that "shutting down the entire federal government and threatening our economy to make a political point is utterly ridiculous."

So the pressure is getting tougher and tougher, especially for the GOP members in the northeast. They will be part of the solution.

 

[R.C. Christian]

They can get pressed until their brains explode for all I care.

 

[JimH52]

The GOP is what is going to implode....

 

[EriktheRed]

Government shutdown puts squeeze on Republican moderates - latimes.com

That is putting a tough political squeeze on Jon Runyan, the former NFL tackle who represents this town in Congress, and a handful of other Republican lawmakers from the Philadelphia region — part of a small and dwindling band ofGOP moderates.

"Jon is sort of torn between party loyalty and what's good for his district," said Carl Golden, a former spokesman for two Republican New Jersey governors and an analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy in Galloway, N.J. "I'm sure he can't be happy right now, the way this thing is going."

Runyan is one of seven House Republicans from the area who have said it's time to end the party's effort to halt the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare, in exchange for continued funding of the government. "Enough is enough," Runyan said Tuesday after the shutdown began, adding that "shutting down the entire federal government and threatening our economy to make a political point is utterly ridiculous."

So the pressure is getting tougher and tougher, especially for the GOP members in the northeast. They will be part of the solution.

"If the legislative plan depends on moderate Republicans, get another plan."

- Jon Podesta

 

[ScienceRocks]

I hope the moderates side with the democrats to end this fucking anti-American shut down.

This shit has proven that the republican party is sick and is anti-science.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Government shutdown puts squeeze on Republican moderates - latimes.com

That is putting a tough political squeeze on Jon Runyan, the former NFL tackle who represents this town in Congress, and a handful of other Republican lawmakers from the Philadelphia region — part of a small and dwindling band ofGOP moderates.

"Jon is sort of torn between party loyalty and what's good for his district," said Carl Golden, a former spokesman for two Republican New Jersey governors and an analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy in Galloway, N.J. "I'm sure he can't be happy right now, the way this thing is going."

Runyan is one of seven House Republicans from the area who have said it's time to end the party's effort to halt the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare, in exchange for continued funding of the government. "Enough is enough," Runyan said Tuesday after the shutdown began, adding that "shutting down the entire federal government and threatening our economy to make a political point is utterly ridiculous."

So the pressure is getting tougher and tougher, especially for the GOP members in the northeast. They will be part of the solution.

"If the legislative plan depends on moderate Republicans, get another plan."

- Jon Podesta

Can you honestly pass a bill through the house with just democrats? I don't think so.

 

[Hoffstra]

Moderate Republicans should negotiate with and join the Democratic Party.

 

[ScienceRocks]

The GOP is what is going to implode....

Exactly,

Hopefully before it takes out our edge in science and technology. + Our entire economy along with it.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Government shutdown puts squeeze on Republican moderates - latimes.com

That is putting a tough political squeeze on Jon Runyan, the former NFL tackle who represents this town in Congress, and a handful of other Republican lawmakers from the Philadelphia region — part of a small and dwindling band ofGOP moderates.

"Jon is sort of torn between party loyalty and what's good for his district," said Carl Golden, a former spokesman for two Republican New Jersey governors and an analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy in Galloway, N.J. "I'm sure he can't be happy right now, the way this thing is going."

Runyan is one of seven House Republicans from the area who have said it's time to end the party's effort to halt the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare, in exchange for continued funding of the government. "Enough is enough," Runyan said Tuesday after the shutdown began, adding that "shutting down the entire federal government and threatening our economy to make a political point is utterly ridiculous."

So the pressure is getting tougher and tougher, especially for the GOP members in the northeast. They will be part of the solution.

Sadly, they’re more likely to become as extinct as sensible republicans are elsewhere.