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LOOKING
FORWARD
IN ANGST
JASON
LINKINS
HUFFINGTON
10.06.13
NEVER FORGET THE
GREAT MODERATE REPUBLICAN
REVOLT OF 2013!
ONDAY NIGHT’S bicameral back and forth
between the House
GOP and the Senate
ended in the way everyone saw
coming: a shutdown of the federal
government, owing to the House
Republicans’ refusal to simply send
the Senate the “clean” continuing resolution that everyone knew
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would have ended the futile contretemps right then and there. As that
didn’t happen, reporters instead
got to watch House Republicans
smack a tennis ball into a brick
wall, over and over again until everyone just hung it up for the night.
But there was a brief moment
where everything threatened to
actually get interesting.
I speak, of course, of Rep. Peter
King (R-N.Y.), who is what passes
for a “moderate” House Repub-
Rep. Peter
King, R-N.Y.,
led moderate
Republicans
in pursuit
of a “clean”
continuing
resolution.