Labrador dividing GOP

Does Idaho realize that the head mucketymuck of the new “heck no caucus” is our own Rep. Raul Labrador, a key organizer of the Sen. Ted Cruz-loving Freedom Caucus, whose biggest enemies are Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republicans?

This caucus of three dozen boneheads hates Speaker John Boehner’s audacity to not shut down the government, but is only one-sixth of the 218 votes needed to pass anything.

The new Freedom Caucus includes ethical infants like South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford, who lied to the press about hiking on the Appalachian Trail, when he was really tending to his Argentine lover at state expense while his wife was home with the kids attending the best Christian school in Columbia.

But one need only go back to the last Idaho state Republican convention to see how well a Labrador gavel-ship went. Under Raul’s leadership, the GOP convention couldn’t even agree on who was or wasn’t a delegate, and the convention ended before it could begin. Now, Labrador wants to lecture Congress on what a good speaker is?

Letting Labrador divide the party with his arbitrary morality is a sure-bet way to lose the White House again in 2016. Democrats are cheering.

Mike Reno

Post Falls