Via Newsbusters:
Chris Matthews has a new book out about his former boss the late Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill.
Despite this, the MSNBC host was made a fool of on Sunday’s Meet the Press by Tea Party Congressman Raul Labrador (R-Id.) concerning how many times the government was shut down when O’Neill ruled the House:
DEE DEE MYERS, FORMER CLINTON PRESS SECRETARY: So what’s the endgame, though, Congressman? Are you willing to vote for– a continued resolution that comes back that does not delay or de-fund ObamaCare?
REP. RAUL LABRADOR (R-IDAHO): I am not. But I think there’s enough people in the Republican Party who are willing to do that. And I think that’s what you’re going to see.
DEE DEE MYERS: But would you–
REP. RAUL LABRADOR: Our first request was to completely def– de-fund the program. And we knew we were going to lose on that. Now we’re asking for a delay, which, again, I don’t think is an unreasonable thing to do. You know, your boss, Tip O’Neil, shut down the government 12 different times. And you didn’t call him a terrorist.