Bill O’Reilly: Want To Avoid Shutdown? Tie Harry Reid To A Tree [Video]

Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly has a pretty direct solution to avoid a government shutdown: Delay Obamacare for another year and tie Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to a tree.

The host paid a visit to Fox & Friends Monday to talk about his book Killing Jesus, but touched on the prospect of a looming government shutdown that everyone is so afraid of right now. O’Reilly placed the blame on both Republicans and Democrats, saying that both parties are “playing a big political game rather than looking out for the country.”

Then, he offered his own solution to the problem.

“Here’s what should happen. Number one, today they should pass three or four weeks, we’ll fund [the government], until we hash this out. So you take that off the table. And then—because this is a mess, and everybody knows it’s a mess, all right? So it should be: if you want to sign up for the exchange, you can. If you don’t, we’re gonna give you a twelve-month grace period. Just like they did with the other select people. Give the folks the option.”

He continued:

“That takes us into 2014. If Congress changes, okay, let’s run it, let’s see how it works. Let’s see how many doctors quit, let’s see what the expenses are really going to be, let’s what how the prescription drug thing shakes down. That’s fair. So why not do that? It would take you twenty minutes.”

The problem, O’Reilly argues, is obstructionists to common sense solutions on both sides of the aisle.

“Republicans would agree to it. Harry Reid, I think you’ll have to kidnap. Tie him to a tree up in Idaho somewhere, leave him there for a few weeks. We won’t hurt him, just tie him up so he can’t say anything.”

But it won’t happen, because both sides are busy trying to appease extremists in their base.

“This is why people can’t stand politics,” he said. “This is so unnecessary, so juvenile. It’s all about ‘macho.'”

Check out Bill O’Reilly’s government shutdown solution below: