NY GOP Rep. Blasts 'Clown Show' Pushing For Shutdown
It seems what's left of the few moderates in McCarthy's caucus have had quite enough of the "Freedom Caucus" pushing for a government shutdown. McCarthy warned against a government shutdown and promised a vote on the defense spending bill this week, and we got it, only to have it go down with hardliners refusing to vote for it.
Now that it's obvious that McCarthy has absolutely no control over his caucus and that a shutdown is likely, some lawmakers are eying the possibility of a discharge petition as a way to avert a shutdown, with Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, who managed to narrowly defeat Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney last year in a seat Biden would have won by 10 points in its current configuration, among them.
CNN showed some of Lawler's edited remarks this Tuesday without the full context which you can watch in the video above:
LAWLER: This is not conservative Republicanism. This is stupidity. The idea that we’re going to shut the government down when we don’t control the Senate, we don’t control the White House. These people can’t define a win. They don’t know how to take yes for an answer. It’s a clown show. You keep running lunatics. You’re going to be in this position.