repugs planning another stunt for their oil company buddies

DeMint on possible gov’t shutdown: I think people will say‘the heck with government, we need energy.’

House Republicans are threatening a “government shutdown if the Democratic-led Congress doesn’t vote to lift a moratorium on new offshore oil drilling.” Just as he did in 1995, Newt Gingrich is leading the push for a government shutdown. Today, Fox News asked Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), “Do you think people would go for that?” DeMint responded:

I think the American people are mad enough that they would say, ‘the heck with government, we need energy.’ And if the Democrats are crazy enough to attach a ban on drilling to the end-of-the-year spending bills, then they’re the ones, I think, that are gonna get the blame for closing the government down.

As a Center for American Progress Action Fund report notes, the same House conservatives who are stumping for oil on the floor are swimming in oil contributions. Can oil money buy a government shutdown? Stay tuned.

(Think Progress)