I don't know but listen to what he has to say now:
"Erick Erickson, the editor-in-chief of the conservative website RedState.com, expressed his displeasure with the current state of affairs in the House of Representatives by tweeting Monday night, hours before a midnight deadline to fund the government, in favor of capitulation.
House Republicans are struggling to unify around a continuing resolution to fund the government past the Sept. 30 deadline that includes language delaying President Obama's signature health care law. After a small wing of moderates balked Monday in face of a newly announced plan by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) slated for an evening vote, Erickson urged the party to pass a "clean" continuing resolution instead."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/redstate-s-erickson-to-gop-just-pass-a-clean-continuing-resolution
He says they should just go and vote for a clean CR as they've 'already embarrassed themselves.' Mission accomplished? Certainly Boehner never seems done with embarrassment but is going for more with this latest anti Obamacare bill. Will it fail stillborn in the House as so many 'Plan Bs" he's come up with-the fiscal cliff, the farm bill, etc.?
From what Peter King is saying the answer sounds like yes:
"Rep. Pete King (R-NY) told National Review Online that moderate Republicans would revolt against House leadership's latest ploy to derail Obamacare in exchange for funding the government.
King said he had 25 House Republicans who would oppose the latest plan, which would delay Obamacare's individual mandate for a year and eliminate subsidies for Congress members and staff. If that's true and House Democrats united against the plan, it likely wouldn't have the votes to pass.
“This is going nowhere,” he told NRO. "If Obamacare is as bad as we say it’s going to be, then we should pick up a lot of seats in the next election and we should win the presidency in 2016. This idea of going through the side door to take something you lost through the front door -- to me it’s wrong.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pete-king-latest-house-gop-plan-is-going-nowhere
However there are some 'lemmings' whose resolve is rather weak:
"King acknowledged, though, that the verbal commitment of those moderates to oppose the plan wasn't a guarantee that they would actually vote against it when the House votes Monday evening.
“How many of them are going to follow up today with the pressure and everything else, I don’t know,” King said.
We have Congressman Nunes as a case in point. After castigating the 'lemmings' that will support Boehner's latest poison pill, he has joined them.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rep-nunes-reverses-i-ll-vote-with-lemmings-on-latest-delay-obamacare-vote The real problem is minority rule. Not only has the GOP been able to thwart the will the majority repeatedly who want no part of this brinksmanship, but even within the GOP we see the minority more and more ruling, the tail also wags the elephant. King argues that he may have 25 House GOPers to oppose the new anti Obama bill tonight. It's being argued by some that as many as 175 Republicans would be willing to vote for the 'clean CR' but will Boehner ever allow that bill to get a vote? And Byron York reports this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/09/30/happy-hour-roundup-200/
"Erick Erickson, the editor-in-chief of the conservative website RedState.com, expressed his displeasure with the current state of affairs in the House of Representatives by tweeting Monday night, hours before a midnight deadline to fund the government, in favor of capitulation.
House Republicans are struggling to unify around a continuing resolution to fund the government past the Sept. 30 deadline that includes language delaying President Obama's signature health care law. After a small wing of moderates balked Monday in face of a newly announced plan by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) slated for an evening vote, Erickson urged the party to pass a "clean" continuing resolution instead."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/redstate-s-erickson-to-gop-just-pass-a-clean-continuing-resolution
He says they should just go and vote for a clean CR as they've 'already embarrassed themselves.' Mission accomplished? Certainly Boehner never seems done with embarrassment but is going for more with this latest anti Obamacare bill. Will it fail stillborn in the House as so many 'Plan Bs" he's come up with-the fiscal cliff, the farm bill, etc.?
From what Peter King is saying the answer sounds like yes:
"Rep. Pete King (R-NY) told National Review Online that moderate Republicans would revolt against House leadership's latest ploy to derail Obamacare in exchange for funding the government.
King said he had 25 House Republicans who would oppose the latest plan, which would delay Obamacare's individual mandate for a year and eliminate subsidies for Congress members and staff. If that's true and House Democrats united against the plan, it likely wouldn't have the votes to pass.
“This is going nowhere,” he told NRO. "If Obamacare is as bad as we say it’s going to be, then we should pick up a lot of seats in the next election and we should win the presidency in 2016. This idea of going through the side door to take something you lost through the front door -- to me it’s wrong.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pete-king-latest-house-gop-plan-is-going-nowhere
However there are some 'lemmings' whose resolve is rather weak:
"King acknowledged, though, that the verbal commitment of those moderates to oppose the plan wasn't a guarantee that they would actually vote against it when the House votes Monday evening.
“How many of them are going to follow up today with the pressure and everything else, I don’t know,” King said.
We have Congressman Nunes as a case in point. After castigating the 'lemmings' that will support Boehner's latest poison pill, he has joined them.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rep-nunes-reverses-i-ll-vote-with-lemmings-on-latest-delay-obamacare-vote The real problem is minority rule. Not only has the GOP been able to thwart the will the majority repeatedly who want no part of this brinksmanship, but even within the GOP we see the minority more and more ruling, the tail also wags the elephant. King argues that he may have 25 House GOPers to oppose the new anti Obama bill tonight. It's being argued by some that as many as 175 Republicans would be willing to vote for the 'clean CR' but will Boehner ever allow that bill to get a vote? And Byron York reports this:
There are 233 Republicans in the House. Insiders estimate that three-quarters of them, or about 175 GOP lawmakers, are willing, and perhaps even eager, to vote for a continuing resolution that funds the government without pressing the Republican goal of defunding or delaying Obamacare.But will the House GOP leadership ever allow that vote to happen?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/09/30/happy-hour-roundup-200/
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