Bloomberg News:
U.S. Representative Dennis Ross, a Florida Republican, said he’d support a broad spending deal that didn’t include changes to the health-care law, becoming the first Tea Party-backed House lawmaker to publicly back off the fight that’s shut down the government for four days.
Ross, ranked among the House’s most conservative members by both the Club for Growth and the American Conservative Union, said he’s shifted his position because the shutdown hasn’t resulted in changes to the Affordable Care Act, which started Oct. 1, the same day government funding ran out. The shutdown also could hurt the party, he said.
“We’ve lost the CR battle,” Ross, referring to the continuing resolution to authorize government spending, said in an interview. “We need to move on and take whatever we can find in the debt limit.”
Of course, there's an enormous difference between claiming that you'd support a clean funding bill to reopen government and actually doing it.
Earlier today, Ross—along with every single other Republican who voted—defeated a Democratic move to bring the Senate's clean CR up for a vote. And he's given no indication that he plans to support the Democratic discharge petition to force a vote on reopening government.
It's noteworthy that Ross admits the GOP has lost and won't accomplish its goals during the shutdown, but when Republicans like him say they are ready to throw in the towel and reopen government but vote to continue keeping it shut down, they aren't being reasonable—they are being hypocrites.