Posted on 10/04/2013 6:26:29 AM PDT by Qbert
(CNN) -- The federal government shutdown is a virtually unprecedented move by a political minority committed to rolling back one of the most significant legislative achievements in recent American history. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was passed by two houses of Congress after 14 months of debate. Opponents then challenged the law's constitutionality and lost that battle in the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Apparently the democratic processes by which Americans make choices and govern themselves are not acceptable to extremists in the House of Representatives who seek to halt government or have their way. They would have Americans see their actions as a patriotic and high-minded defense of liberty.
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Each step, in fact, had been an effort to shatter what the democratic process had painstakingly achieved.
Such rhetorical sleights of hand should not obscure the very radical departure the closure of most of the federal government represents. Some members of the House of Representatives apparently believe their steadfast opposition to the Affordable Care law justifies the use of coercive threats: to defund U.S. government and harm the economy. In seeking to trump a lawful vote of both houses of Congress, a Supreme Court ruling and a reaffirming national presidential election, they tread on extremist ground. Their hubris is radical and nothing in modern American history provides a fair counterpart.
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No, the extremism of the present moment should not be understood as a fair response to a governmental expansion some consider too vast. Unprecedented efforts to try to repeal or gut a major law by threatening the nation's government and economy are a symptom of a political party that has allowed a faction to pull it far away from fundamental democratic values. We can only hope that saner heads and hearts will soon prevail.
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So the sea levels are rising because the federal government is not spending on Global Warming due to the Shutdown? Somebody best get this news to the UN IPCC pronto!
“The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was passed by two houses of Congress after 14 months of debate. “
Must we continue to post these people with their misinformation who fail to include somewhere in the article that the WH changed the Act five times?
Do these media types, like Chuck Schumer, think everyone is an uninformed idiot?
By “legislative achievements” CNN means giving away Middle Class workers tax money to buy votes from the Welfare Class with SNAP cards, ObamaPhones and ObamaCare. The USA is $90 TRILLION in debt with all our unfunded liabilities. The government’s own budget agencies, the CBO and GAO, say this is “unsustainable,” but the ObamaBots at CNN are faulting the few dozen TEA Party Republicans in the House for America’s troubles. They deserve their miserable ratings.
C’mon people, panic!! Wall Street is still strong and that is not supposed to happen.
Let me get this straight. Once Congress passes a law, nobody is allowed to criticize, oppose, or repeal it. Doing so makes one an “extremist.”
Useful information.
Liberal logic
More propaganda from Communist News Network (CNN)
First of all, it is hardly an "achievement". Second, it was forced through, on Christmas Eve no less, before the results of the 2010 election (a referendum on the Obamacare abomination) could stop it. Third, the MAJORITY of the American people don't want this, and never wanted it.
To suggest that the Republican MAJORITY in the House is somehow wrong for trying to stop this socialist nightmare is ridiculous.
Not that I expected much else from CNN...
The Affordable Care Act was passed on Christmas Eve by a House that had been swept out of office by the 2010 election and before the new congress could be convened.
The government ruled against the will of the people in the Affordable Care Act. The people responded by sending their representatives to congress to undo the tyrannical legislation. Sounds like a reasonable response to me.
"Let me get this straight. Once Congress passes a law, nobody is allowed to criticize, oppose, or repeal it. Doing so makes one an “extremist.”
This gibberish was written by two college professors. I bet they were just OUTRAGED when the Obama administration unilaterally decided that it was no longer going to enforce DOMA- passed by Congress and signed into law by a Democrat president...
Oh my! Are we ALL gonna die?
Do these media types, like Chuck Schumer, think everyone is an uninformed idiot?
sadly such people refuse to look past their noses! Carry On!
With achievements like these, who needs setbacks?
Yes they do. They believe if they repeat their lies often enough, everyone will tire of challenging them.
Extremist, also having been refered to as “terrorist”.
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