Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador didn't appear on a nationally televised Sunday morning news talk show today, but his ears must have been burning. Labrador, who has racked up nearly a dozen appearances between NBC's Meet The Press and ABC's This Week, was mentioned on the NBC program this morning during a roundtable discussion about political brinksmanship in the wake of the recent partial federal government shutdown and the showdown between the far right wing of the Republican party and the White House. "There are a lot of Conservatives, and I'm not talking about the leadership here; I'm talking about the Rep. Raul Labradors, the (Sen.) Ted Cruzes, the (Sen.) Mike Lees, who say, 'Look, the goal that the president has is to destroy the Republican Party, to fracture the Republican Party. We've got to dig in and not deal with this guy at all,'" said Meet the Press host David Gregory/George Prentice, Boise Weekly. More here.

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