Bob Schieffer schools Rep. Matt Salmon on the reality based world

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Rep. Matt Salmon is a right-wing ideologue who only knows what he reads from the GOP talking points. Somehow he was a guest on Face the Nation on Sunday, and host Bob Schieffer had to school him on the reality based world. CBS Host Schools GOP Rep. on Defunding Obamacare: 'This Is the Land of What's Real':

CBS host Bob Schieffer on Sunday encouraged Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) to come back to the "land of what's real" and realize that President Barack Obama was never going to sign bill that defunded his signature health care reform law.

"We just had a conservative Democrat and a Republican both say there's no way, no how that this is going to get done in the Senate," Schieffer explained during an interview on Face the Nation, adding that the push to defund Obamacare by forcing a government shutdown was like "a Kamikaze attack, a suicide mission." [Wall Street Journal op-ed The Power of 218.]

"I find it ironic that the president will negotiate with Vladimir Putin, but he won't negotiate with Republicans in the House of Representatives," Salmon opined. [John Boehner talking point.] "I heard loudly and clearly during the August recess, 'We want Obamacare gone.'"

Schieffer reminded Salmon that many business leaders [Business lobby says don't shut down the government!] -- and even elected Republicans -- agreed that Obamacare opponents in the House were "just wasting everybody's time by going down one of these exercises again to shut down the government."

[The Democratic Policy & Communications Center has compiled a list of 20 Republican senators who have gone on the record acknowledging that they can’t prevent the implementation of ObamaCare either legislatively or through a government shutdown.]

"You know what's going to happen," the CBS host explained. "You can write this script now. They're going to strip out this thing -- to not fund Obamacare -- out of this bill in the Senate. They're going to wait until the very last minute, they're going to send it back over to the House. And then you're going to have to vote on whether we just shut down the government."

"But this is not the land of wishful thinking," Schieffer pointed out. "This is the land of what's real and what's going to happen."

He continued: "And even if you pass this, the president would veto it. And there are certainly not 67 votes in the Senate to override his veto. It's law."

Another delusional Tea-Publican congressman trapped in the epistemic closure of the conservative media entertainment complex feedback loop.

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[BruceJ]

""I find it ironic that the president will negotiate with Vladimir Putin, but he won't negotiate with Republicans in the House of Representatives," Salmon opined. "

Weren't they just castigating Obama for being so weak as to negotiate with their new teen heartthrob Vlad? Seriously, Detroit needs to study Congressional Representative's necks for their obvious resistance to extreme whiplash...

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