The idiot regressives in the House now want to shut down the government refusing to up the debt limit - meaning they want us to not pay back the money the US has already borrowed (just like refusing to pay your credit card debt) - while they are trying to force more fracking on us to ruin our water and our environment so they can make more money from oil industry deep pockets... ~jp~ "On Wednesday, House leaders confirmed that they will not vote to increase the nation’s debt ceiling without an amendment to delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act by one year, a measure that faces certain defeat in the Senate and a veto threat from President Obama. The bill will also include tax reform instructions and “language to urge the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.” A separate piece of must-pass legislation aimed at keeping the government functioning until Dec. 15, known as a continuing resolution, will also cut funding for the new health care law, leadership announced. “We have to stay on the right side of public opinion,” House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told his colleagues. “Shutting down the government puts us on the wrong side. The fight is on the debt limit.” But while the House GOP is now united in its effort to use both bills as vehicles to undermine Obamacare just days before uninsured Americans begin enrolling in its state-based health care exchanges, the very same Republicans who are now holding the debt ceiling hostage to ideological policy goals, had previously cast this kind of political brinkmanship as both childish and irresponsible." thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/09/18/2644071/gop-leaders-warned-playing-games-debt-ceiling-hold-hostage/
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:58:08 +0000
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