2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPeter King Declares Civil War Against Southern Republicans
Many people have noticed the GOP is increasingly becoming a southern party. So has New York Republican Peter King. The congressman is getting tired of his colleagues insulting his state and then begging it for money. On Thursday, he complained of two new slights: Sen. Marco Rubio raising money on Wall Street, and CPAC not inviting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to its big annual event. Republicans "are more and more taking on this anti-Northeast attitude," King told Politicker. "We say fine, if you want to be anti-Northeast, then the Northeast is going to be anti-them."
When House Republicans initially voted down an aid package for victims of Hurricane Sandy in January, King said New Yorkers' campaign donations should dry up in return. "Anyone from New York or New Jersey who contributes one penny to congressional Republicans is out of their minds," King said. "Because what they did last night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans." King has not forgiven them, and is reminding Rubio of that. The Florida senator, who's recently been on a presidential candidate-style tour meeting Middle Eastern leaders and Wall Street donors, voted against the Sandy bill. King named Rubio, and told Politicker, "Its bad enough that these guys voted against it, thats inexcusable enough. But to have the balls to come in and say, 'We screwed you now make us president?'"
As for the Conservative Political Action Conference, King told The Hill's Cameron Joseph he was glad Christie wasn't invited. "If Republicans had any brains they'd stay away from CPAC," King told The Hill. "The thought that he's being penalized because he sought to get the aid for Sandy relief is disgraceful regional bias. To hold that out against him shows a narrow-minded bigotry from the party." Still, CPAC's decision makes the GOP "look like a narrow regional party."
King is not the only one who's noticed increasing tension in the GOP's regional divide. Of his 231 Republican colleagues in the House, 110 are from the South. The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza reported earlier this week:
Nan Hayworth, a Tea Party representative from upstate New York who lost to a Democrat in November, told me about a Southern Republican who once tried to win her support for a colleague on some internal conference position. Hes a good Christian man, the congressman told her, assuming that was the first thing she needed to know. She responded, Well, Im married to a good Jewish man.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/02/peter-king-declares-civil-war-against-southern-republicans/62637/
Warpy
(111,277 posts)calling them Boll Weevil Democrats because they'd eat the heart out of any legislation and then vote against it with the Republicans.
They're welcome to them.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)I have noticed this,
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)like many who live in the south are disgusted what happened. I am only one vote.. I didn't vote for the republicans in either house or senate. If the northeastern representatives are smart they should start watching who they vote for on their bills.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)in.
(sure wish I had the $$$ to buy popcorn futures................)
ellie
(6,929 posts)I will enjoy this watching this war.
midwest irish
(155 posts)That a-hole was literally palling around with terrorists but I guess it's ok as long as it's the IRA.
Cha
(297,323 posts)pit. Could get messsier.