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Trib: Labrador’s Delusional

In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, opinionator Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives Jeers to …

” … Congressman Raul Labrador, R-Idaho. He has co-sponsored Georgia Rep. Tom Graves’ threat to essentially shut down the government unless Obamacare is blocked. ‘If the House passes it and the Senate rejects it, it will be the Senate that’s responsible for shutting down the government,’ Labrador says. He’s delusional. Labrador and his 80 fire-breathing Tea Party colleagues — including Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. — are pushing more level-headed Republicans — including Idaho’s Mike Simpson and Washington’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers — toward what a spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., calls ‘a Washington gimmick to advance funding goals’/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here.

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