Jul 27, 2013 Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Hill: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Friday that a plan spearheaded by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) ? and endorsed by at least a dozen Republican senators ? to shut down the government to block funds for ObamaCare would cost the GOP control of the House and could destroy the party.
?The strategy that has been laid out is a good way for Republicans to lose the House,? Coburn said in an interview with The Washington Examiner?s Byron York.
?Lee?s answer [to critics] is, ?Give me a different strategy,?? Coburn said. ?Well, there isn?t one, because we lost the [election]. I?m getting phone calls from Oklahoma saying, ?support Mike Lee,? and I?m ramming right back ? support him in destroying the Republican party??
Lee says he?s recruited more than a dozen Republican colleagues willing to block a continuing resolution to fund the government beyond Sept. 30 if it includes funding for ObamaCare.
The second- and third-ranking members of Republican leadership, Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and John Thune (S.D.), have said they support Lee?s plan, as do influential conservatives and potential presidential candidates Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Ted Cruz (Texas).
However, Sens. John McCain (R-Ari.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) spoke out against the plan earlier this week. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) called it ?the dumbest idea I?ve ever heard.?
Coburn on Friday told The Washington Examiner he opposes Obamacare. But the GOP scheme did nothing more than create false expectations for the Republican base, because there?s no chance Obama will sign into law a spending bill that defunds his signature healthcare legislation, he said.
?The worst thing is being dishonest with your base about what you can accomplish, ginning everybody up and then creating disappointment,? he said. ?It?s a terribly dangerous and not successful strategy.? Keep reading
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