Quick someone remind me, isn't the House of Representatives responsible for paying our national bills. Maybe Fox News should take a moment, and remind them of that?
Dodge Default, Defund Obamacare, GOP Leaders Say
by David Espo, AP Special Correspondent; abcnews.go.com -- Sep 19, 2013
House Republicans vowed Wednesday to pass legislation that would prevent a partial government shutdown and avoid a historic national default while simultaneously canceling out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, inaugurating a new round of political brinkmanship as critical deadlines approach.
Obama swiftly condemned the effort as attempted political extortion, and the Republican-friendly Chamber of Commerce pointedly called on lawmakers to pass urgent spending and borrowing legislation -- unencumbered by debate over "Obamacare."
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When the Chamber of Commerce tells the Republican House to 'get it together'
-- they should know they got credibility problems.
Of course the GOP is not always the brightest bulb in the shop, when it comes to making a persuasive argument ...
Are businesses turning on the Tea Party?
Disagreements over various strategies to attempt to defund ObamaCare are straining a once-strong political alliance
by Jon Terbush, theweek.com -- August 20, 2013
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"We've got a lot of new people pounding their chest," Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue said at a June 2011 event, adding a warning to conservative holdouts that if they didn't raise the debt ceiling, "We'll get rid of you."
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Yet now, the Chamber isn't so keen on those members' strident rhetoric, with Bruce Josten, the group's executive vice president for government affairs, telling National Journal that these conservatives' ObamaCare plan is "not the politically astute thing to do."
Conservative pundits have also panned the idea because of the havoc it could wreak on the economy. Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, for one, labeled it "really dumb."
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Even Republican Pundits getting a paycheck from Fox News, have called the GOP stonewalling the budget plan "really dumb."
They should know. Afterall the Supreme Court has already ruled the Affordable Care Act is "constitutional." It is the obstructionist Republicans who are testing those boundaries ... and totally disregarding their Constitutional responsibilities regarding raising revenues to keeping the country solvent.