{"id":8931,"date":"2011-03-17T19:41:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T23:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2011-03-17T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T23:41:30","slug":"house-gop-leaders-losing-on-two-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8931\/house-gop-leaders-losing-on-two-fronts\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Leaders Losing on Two Fronts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a confrontation brewing between fiscal conservatives in the House GOP caucus and their leadership over how best to handle the budget crisis.\u00a0 House leadership wants to keep negotiating while passing short-term spending bills to avoid a shutdown.\u00a0 Fiscal conservatives like Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) are voting No and getting <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/03\/16\/gop-leaders-mainline-caucus-fume-at-conservative-no-votes-on-three-week-cr\/\" target=\"_blank\">killed for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pence is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0311\/51487.html\" target=\"_blank\">fighting back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have no doubt that Speaker John Boehner and Republican Leader Eric Cantor and the rest of our leadership will privately, and if needs be, publicly denounce any effort to essentially bad mouth the intentions of Republicans that are simply fighting for fiscal responsibility,\u201d the former GOP conference chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\/transcripts.aspx?id=fc3bdb2e-52e3-4666-920e-d51dc93e309f\" target=\"_blank\">said Thursday morning on \u201cThe Hugh Hewitt Show.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny to hear that the House leadership is fuming at fiscal conservatives for voting their principles when those same leaders say that the latest budget extension is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/InsideCover\/CantorNoMoreStopgapMeasures\/2011\/03\/16\/id\/389616\" target=\"_blank\">the last one<\/a>.\u00a0 With House leadership moving towards the fiscal conservatives&#8217; position, maybe leadership is just ticked that they&#8217;re losing negotiations with both Democrats <em>and<\/em> Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a confrontation brewing between fiscal conservatives in the House GOP caucus and their leadership over how best to handle the budget crisis.\u00a0 House leadership wants to keep negotiating while passing short-term spending bills to avoid a shutdown.\u00a0 Fiscal conservatives like Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) are voting No and getting killed for it. Pence is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,59,1561,2064,1097,2440,2154,1057,780,334],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-democrat-party","tag-eric-cantor","tag-fiscal-conservative","tag-government-shutdown","tag-house-gop","tag-john-boehner","tag-mike-pence","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8935,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}