• The reason the Republicans shutdown the government is an attempt by "conservative" groups to "defund Obamacare". From the NY Times: A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III gathered in the capital to plot strategy. ...• This is a radical approach to public policy and it is Not Gonna Happen .
Out of that session, held one morning in a location the members insist on keeping secret, came a little-noticed “blueprint to defunding Obamacare,” signed by Mr. Meese and leaders of more than three dozen conservative groups.
It articulated a take-no-prisoners legislative strategy that had long percolated in conservative circles: that Republicans could derail the health care overhaul if conservative lawmakers were willing to push fellow Republicans — including their cautious leaders — into cutting off financing for the entire federal government.
“We felt very strongly at the start of this year that the House needed to use the power of the purse,” said one coalition member ...
Last week the country witnessed the fallout from that strategy: a standoff that has shuttered much of the federal bureaucracy and unsettled the nation.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made a surprise announcement on Saturday that he would recall next week almost all of the 400,000 civilian employees of the Defense Department who had been sent home when the government shut down.• Congress will pay-the-bills (aka raise the "debt ceiling"). This is not negotiable. Treasury believes they will be low on funds by October 17th.
Mr. Hagel said the decision that “most D.O.D. civilians” would now be exempted from furloughs came after Pentagon and Justice Department lawyers interpreted a budget law passed just before the shutdown to include a larger number of workers.
Never put doen a “red line” either.
Has this guy ever told the truth?
He speaks with forked tongue. He does the opposite of what he says.
Crack!
That’s what’s wrong with this evil administration and it’s rotten head!
Until he says similar words, anything he says about Obamacare are worthless.
This country is now under Cruz control.
“Some animals are mor equal...”
Just another divide and conquer ploy
My lie detector just overheated and burst into flames!!
obama’s fault!
Wait til Oct 17th. Barry Cades will be running at the mouth trying not to get blamed for default.
How do you even have a discussion with someone so detached from reality that he can’t tell whether or not he said he would negotiate?
There are liars and then there are sociopaths. Obama is the latter and the former. Quite an accomplishment actually.
No compromise. Total surrender by the WH.
ya can't take my dreams NSA