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Navigating the Nonsense

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Trial Balloon · Ep. 189: Navigating the Nonsense

GOP Lawmaker Sick of His Party’s Civil War

October 7, 2013 · 3:30 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) talked to National Review about “this constantly brewing civil war” within the Republican party.

Said Nunes: “Yeah, I’m sick of it. And I’m sick of us not being able to get 218 votes, because every time we don’t get 218 votes — every time on anything major — we lose what little leverage we have with only one half of one-third of government. So that again is just math, that’s just counting votes. You can’t go to the table to play a serious game of poker when you’re showing all your cards to the other side. In fact, you’re not even playing with cards; that’s how bad it is.”

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