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<blockquote data-quote="afterthought" data-source="post: 1202888" data-attributes="member: 48136"><p>On Meet the Press 09/29/13 to Chris Matthews</p><p></p><p>REP. RAUL LABRADOR: Our first request was to completely def-- de-fund the program.</p><p></p><p> And we knew we were going to lose on that. Now we're asking for a delay, which, again, I don't think is an </p><p>unreasonable thing to do.</p><p></p><p> <u>You know, your boss, Tip O'Neil, shut down the government 12 different times</u>. And you didn't call him a terrorist.</p><p></p><p>Matthews replied: No, it wasn't.</p><p></p><p>Who was right?</p><p></p><p> Raul of course, and his source was indeed the Washington Post which on Wednesday published a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/25/here-is-every-previous-government-shutdown-why-they-happened-and-how-they-ended/" target="_blank">piece</a> chronicling</p><p> the seventeen times in American history the government has been shut down.</p><p></p><p> As Labrador said, twelve were indeed when O'Neill was Speaker.</p><p></p><p> Yet Matthews - who worked for O'Neill and has just published a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tip-Gipper-When-Politics-Worked/dp/1451695993" target="_blank">book</a> about the Speaker</p><p> called "Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked" didn't know that.</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WiMJGx8LsE" target="_blank">Rep. Raul Labrador Battles Chris Matthews Over Shutdown: Democrats Just Want Us 'In Trouble in 2014′ - YouTube</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="afterthought, post: 1202888, member: 48136"] On Meet the Press 09/29/13 to Chris Matthews REP. RAUL LABRADOR: Our first request was to completely def-- de-fund the program. And we knew we were going to lose on that. Now we're asking for a delay, which, again, I don't think is an unreasonable thing to do. [U]You know, your boss, Tip O'Neil, shut down the government 12 different times[/U]. And you didn't call him a terrorist. Matthews replied: No, it wasn't. Who was right? Raul of course, and his source was indeed the Washington Post which on Wednesday published a [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/25/here-is-every-previous-government-shutdown-why-they-happened-and-how-they-ended/"]piece[/URL] chronicling the seventeen times in American history the government has been shut down. As Labrador said, twelve were indeed when O'Neill was Speaker. Yet Matthews - who worked for O'Neill and has just published a [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Tip-Gipper-When-Politics-Worked/dp/1451695993"]book[/URL] about the Speaker called "Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked" didn't know that. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WiMJGx8LsE"]Rep. Raul Labrador Battles Chris Matthews Over Shutdown: Democrats Just Want Us 'In Trouble in 2014′ - YouTube[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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