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James Carville: ‘I’m on a different planet than other people’

Jeff Poor Media Reporter
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Hit the panic button early and hit it often.

It looks like that will be the new tactic for Democratic mouthpieces in the coming months with the Republican majority set to assume control of the House of Representatives next month.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “John King USA,” that was the alarm former Clinton White House strategist James Carville, at least, was sounding for viewers. Although Republican leaders have downplayed the prospects of a government shutdown, Carville insisted his warning was no “Glenn Beck conspiracy.”

“I’m on a different planet than other people,” he said. “You have Republican members of Congress talking about shutting the government down. The Republican Party shut the government down in the ’90s. This is not some crazy Glenn Beck conspiracy thing, guys. This is real Congress I’m talking about. This is something that your party has a history of doing and these people coming in, they – I don’t know.”

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