Bernie Sanders: If Democrats cave on Obamacare, GOP will use blackmail tactics again

[Playinghardball]

If Senate Democrats or President Barack Obama cave to House Republican demands on the Affordable Care Act, the Senate’s only independent said that would embolden them to attempt similar tactics on other issues.

“If we surrender right now to these guys on this issue, they will be back,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who generally votes with Senate Democrats.

Sanders said Wednesday that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was being overruled by a minority group of extremists within his own party who wish to undo the past century’s progressive agenda.

He said House Republicans were using blackmail tactics and holding the American people hostage by tying federal government funding to the president’s health care reform law.

“This attack on Obamacare is just one small part of a right-wing extremist ideology which is incredibly reactionary and which really intends not just to repeal Obamacare but to repeal virtually every major piece of legislation passed in the last 80 years which protects the interests of … people who are vulnerable,” Sanders said

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/02/bernie-sanders-if-democrats-cave-on-obamacare-gop-will-use-blackmail-tactics-again/

[lostincalifornia]

1. It won't happen Bernie

[wandy]

2. What would we do without Bernie Sanders. He is one of a very few to stand up.........

and call blackmail what it is.
To call hostage taking what it is.
To call terrorism what it is.

If you watch no other part of this, please, go out to about eight minutes in. Bernie flat out exposes the republican agenda.
Clearly if the republican demands are met this time we can expect nothing but more extortion.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. True that