2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Finally: Obama uses the E word. [View all]
And I'm not talking about "Election."
I'm talking about EXTORTION, which is exactly what the Rethuglican party is trying to do in its threats to shut down the government and/or go into default unless he agrees to defunding or delaying Obamacare.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/obama-debt-ceiling_n_3948809.html
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama accused Republicans of extortion on Wednesday for planning to tie a vote to raise the debt ceiling to an effort to sink the Affordable Care Act.
During remarks at Business Roundtable, Obama said the country may be heading toward a debt default if Republicans don't stop tying unrelated items to the otherwise "basic function" of raising the debt ceiling. The government is on track to run out of money in mid-October, and House Republican leaders said Wednesday that they'll vote as soon as next week on a bill that ties a one-year delay in Obamacare to raising the debt limit.
"You have never seen in the history of the United States ... the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party, and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and have nothing to do with the debt," Obama said.
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