GOP candidate Teresa Collett says she would shut down govt to repeal health reform

[Joanne98]

Run time: 00:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClLaoZ36q3U   Posted on YouTube: September 13, 2010 By YouTube Member: ThinkProgress2 Views on YouTube: 11   Posted on DU: September 13, 2010 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 885

 

[SemperEadem]

1. hey stupid--you don't use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat

instead, would you please explain to all of us why you're a whore for the insurance company?

[Moostache]

7. Just ask Boehner what you use to kill an ant... (NT)

[theaocp]

2. "Real consequences to real people," huh?

Just not for "real people" like herself. Candidate fail.

[madrchsod]

3. the force must be strong in this woman....

she can shut down the government with a mere threat

[AlbertCat]

6. she can shut down the government with a mere threat

Well, little Newty Gingrich did!

And I don't think it went over well with the public.

From Wikipedia:


The Republicans blamed Clinton for the shutdown, but Clinton got a break two days later when Gingrich made a widely-reported complaint about being snubbed by Clinton; Tom DeLay called it "the mistake of his life".<1>

DeLay writes in his book No Retreat, No Surrender:<3>

"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One...Newt had been careless to say such a thing, and now the whole moral tone of the shutdown had been lost. What had been a noble battle for fiscal sanity began to look like the tirade of a spoiled child. The revolution, I can tell you, was never the same."

Gingrich's complaint resulted in the perception that he was acting in a petty, egotistical manner, and Clinton defended the seating arrangement as a courtesy to Gingrich, the back of the plane being closer to his pickup car.<1> Later polling suggested that the event badly damaged Gingrich politically.<4>

[Bitwit1234]

4. For all the Constitution crap they spew that has nothing

to do with our Constitution, she sure don't know what congress does. ONE PERSON CAN'T SHUT DOWN ANYTHING. And all the president has to do is veto the law. And I know damn well the republicans are not going to take 67 seats in the senate. And a majority in the House. 2/3 to overturn a veto.

[herbm]

5. Stupid, amoral as well as boring and ugly? Just another tea partying half wit. I love it when they

talk. I wish they'd talk even more and much louder ..er .. shriller. Like Bachman does.

[MrScorpio]

8. These people aren't interested in good governance...

They're only interested in ruling by any means necessary.