Jack Kingston: “I did want to respond to two things. Number one, we only need about 30 Democrats to reopen the government, because we…”

“I did want to respond to two things. Number one, we only need about 30 Democrats to reopen the government, because we can get some of these vetoes overridden and we can pass some more appropriations bills. So we hope that we can pick up those votes so you all will allow us to reopen the government. Just as much as basically you want to do it your way, we want to do it our way. But I do think that reasonable people can prevail, reasonable thought can prevail. But I wanted to get back, you mentioned what would our forefathers do. I think, number one, they would pray, and I know that it is politically incorrect to say that, but if we look at the example of Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention, I think it was significant that authors in history wrote down his speech about let us pray, because we are obviously at a deadlock. We are not doing that as an institution. We know that. Number two, I think they would look at the example of their mother country, England, which was a country of revolutions and counterrevolutions for over 1,000 years, going back to the Roman Empire, and particularly 1650, right after the English civil war, where they beheaded King Charles and Oliver Cromwell and the military ran the government and kept dismissing parliament after parliament over and over again.”