GOP Rep. (Peter King) Bashes ‘Self-Righteous, Delusional Wing Of The Party’

[DonViejo]

Last edited Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:13 PM - Edit history (1)

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on Friday blasted his Republican colleagues for refusing to pass a clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

"This madness has to end soon. We can’t keep doing this," he told MSNBC. After House Republicans failed to pass a bill funding DHS for three weeks, Democrats helped House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) pass a bill funding the department for one week.

King blamed Republicans' refusal to pass a clean bill on the "wing within our party who is obsessed with the president’s executive order."

"We should not put American lives at risk to win an immigration battle with the president," King said. "I’ve had it with this self-righteous, delusional wing of the party."

The congressman said that he also opposes President Obama's executive actions on immigration, but that he believes funding DHS is more important. "Many of these people are elected from parts of the country that live in an echo chamber," he lamented. "All they hear is everything is anti-Obama." (Emphasis added -- Don)

Source of article + video
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/peter-king-republicans-dhs

[niyad]

1. did this actually come from the Onion?

[elleng]

3. No, he gets it right sometimes.

When he is good he's very very good, but when he's bad he's horrid.

[riqster]

2. My, said the kettle to the pot...

[CanonRay]

4. King IS the delusional wing of the GOP

and he's disgusted with those worse than him? They are over the edge. I the the "wing" has become most of the structure.

[Fred Sanders]

5. What dangerous "echo chamber" is King talking about, any "journalist" think to ask?

[procon]

6. Until the GOP makes that the official platform, he's just whistling in the wind. nt

[Paladin]

7. Just goes to show how far the GOP has deteriorated.....

...for Peter King to be the voice of common sense and reason.

[AlinPA]

8. Sounds like satire to me. King speaking out against crazy republicans?

[libdem4life]

9. Republicans in Blue States have to toe a much different line...like in California. You have

to be a cut above a Cretin to get elected. It's the actual Cretins he's referring to.

[yellowcanine]

10. Peter King calls his colleagues "self righteous and delusional"