{"id":15271,"date":"2013-10-08T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T19:03:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-08T19:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T19:03:56","slug":"devin-nunes-for-clean-continuing-resolution-before-he-was-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/08\/devin-nunes-for-clean-continuing-resolution-before-he-was-against-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Nunes For Clean Continuing Resolution Before He Was Against It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"50%\" height=\"166\" align=right scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F114271103\"><\/iframe><i>Central Valley Congressman Shifts in the Political Winds<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Devin Nunes(R-Tulare) occasionally likes to pretend that he&#8217;s somewhat &#8220;moderate&#8221;. Not like really moderate, but Tea Party moderate. So, he was seriously considering voting for a clean continuing funding resolution to end the government shutdown. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/10\/07\/devin-nunes-clean-cr-shutdown_n_4059229.html\">he said he would support it on September 30 to the Huffington Post<\/a>, and the audio is available online(right there->). That would be meaningful, as there is <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/10\/bare-majority-in-house-supports-clean-govt-funding-measure\/\">now a bare majority for such a clean &#8220;CR&#8221;<\/a> as the DC lingo goes.<\/p>\n<p>But, now he says he is totally not down for a clean &#8220;CR&#8221;. &nbsp;Apparently the Tea Party folks got the memo about Nunes doubts and let him know of their displeasure. The Tea Party is using the so-called &#8220;Hastert Rule&#8221; to prevent the House from voting on a clean CR, and at the same time they are using outside grassroots pressure to threaten any wayward Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing here in California is that given our Top-2 system, representatives are now less threatened by primary challenges. While the seat is solidly Republican at a Cook PVI of R+12, the top two means that Nunes doesn&#8217;t need to run in a nutty R-only election anymore. As incumbent, he is exceedingly likely to make it through to the general election, whether against another Republican or a Democratic challenger. And, for better or worse, you have to like his odds in a general election matchup however it ends up.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently fighting for his ideological masters is more apparent than fighting for his constituents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"50%\" height=\"166\" align=right scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F114271103\"><\/iframe><i>Central Valley Congressman Shifts in the Political Winds<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Devin Nunes(R-Tulare) occasionally likes to pretend that he&#8217;s somewhat &#8220;moderate&#8221;. Not like really moderate, but Tea Party moderate. So, he was seriously considering voting for a clean continuing funding resolution to end the government shutdown. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/10\/07\/devin-nunes-clean-cr-shutdown_n_4059229.html\">he said he would support it on September 30 to the Huffington Post<\/a>, and the audio is available online(right there->). That would be meaningful, as there is <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/10\/bare-majority-in-house-supports-clean-govt-funding-measure\/\">now a bare majority for such a clean &#8220;CR&#8221;<\/a> as the DC lingo goes.<\/p>\n<p>But, now he says he is totally not down for a clean &#8220;CR&#8221;. &nbsp;Apparently the Tea Party folks got the memo about Nunes doubts and let him know of their displeasure. The Tea Party is using the so-called &#8220;Hastert Rule&#8221; to prevent the House from voting on a clean CR, and at the same time they are using outside grassroots pressure to threaten any wayward Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing here in California is that given our Top-2 system, representatives are now less threatened by primary challenges. While the seat is solidly Republican at a Cook PVI of R+12, the top two means that Nunes doesn&#8217;t need to run in a nutty R-only election anymore. As incumbent, he is exceedingly likely to make it through to the general election, whether against another Republican or a Democratic challenger. And, for better or worse, you have to like his odds in a general election matchup however it ends up.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently fighting for his ideological masters is more apparent than fighting for his constituents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4068,5256,11235],"class_list":["post-15271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-4068","tag-5256","tag-11235"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Yj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}