would do with power if they got it. and starting right after the election, just days after the 2010 election, they got to work on what they said they would work on. are you willing to participate in what would lead to a shutdown of the federal government to stop this monstrosity from going down the tracks? i think i agree with congressman boehner. we need to do whatever s necessary to make sure this bill never goes into effect. congressman, would you be willing, you just answered it with health care, but when it comes to fiscal policy, are you willing to participate in a shutdown of the government if it s the only way to get the president to come to the table? we will do what we have to do to shut down the government if we have to. you think if that were to happen, it wouldn t be as bad as people think it would be? do you think shut down ought to be off the table? i think everything ought to be on the table. most people in my district say shut it down. this country may
conservative media and i look at transcripts of conservative talk radio hosts or i go back and look at old conservative speeches on the subject of the lesson of the 1995/1996 shutdown, i feel like i m seeing a pretty consistent revisionist history of the shutdown, didn t hurt newt gingrich losing the speakership, bob dole was just a bad candidate and clinton was going to win anyway. i feel like there is a revisionist history. is that what they re telling each other? the republicans were really riding high and president clinton was pretty much flat on his back prior to that shutdown. i looked at our polling numbers and going into that shutdown in 1995, bob dole was only behind bill clinton in the washington post poll by 6 points. coming out of that shutdown, he was behind by 16 points. and while it is true that in the next election that certainly sent bill clinton on his road to
it. and starting right after the election, just days after the 2010 election, they got to work on what they said they would work on. are you willing to participate in what would lead to a shutdown of the federal government to stop this monstrosity from going down the tracks? i think i agree with congressman boehner. we need to do whatever s necessary to make sure this bill never goes into effect. congressman, would you be willing, you just answered it with health care, but when it comes to fiscal policy, are you willing to participate in a shutdown of the government if it s the only way to get the president to come to the table? we will do what we have to do to shut down the government if we have to. you think if that were to happen, it wouldn t be as bad as people think it would be? do you think shut down ought to be off the table? i think everything ought to be on the table. most people in my district say shut it down.
the cost of not moving ahead versus moving ahead. whether or not this was the right place to be negotiating over obama care is a place where we would dramatically disagree. but where we stand right now, you are one of the few republicans trying to get us out of the shutdown and i appreciate your willingness to explain your point of view. thank you very much. congressman scott rigell of virginia. it turns out one of the ways members of congress have been coping with the impressive pressures of this week is that they ve been calling on their own friend john barleycorn. if it doesn t mean anything for you, that s what wikipedia is for. why the house of representatives has sometimes spelled like a distillery in the past couple of days is coming right up. over 20 million drivers are insured with geico. so get a free rate quote today. i love it! how much do you love it? animation is hot.and i think it makes geico s 20 million drivers message very compelling, very compelling. this is so
the goal its to get every veteran who wants few see the memorial to see it. well when the government shut down early this morning, one of the parts of government that shut down was the world war ii memorial. and all of the memorials. that however did not stop dozens of world war ii veterans who showed up on an honor flight trip to see the memorial today. together they walked up, cut the police tape. they removed the barriers that the memorial and they want on in. they had traveled from across the country to see the memorial honoring their service and were not going to let the pesky government shutdown get in the way. they are awesome. some veterans were escorted. some kept their mouth shut. some could not resist the opportunity for a self serving photo-op to wrap in the veterans glory to lament the closing of this memorial to the honorable veterans though they themselves had voted for the shutdown that closed the memorial. veterans of course earned the right to visit the world war i