Charles Blow sums it up: "Obamacare is the bright red line in House Republicans’ dim world."
Charles Blow sums it up:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/opinion/blow-min...
"On Wednesday, Obama summoned Congressional leaders to the White House to discuss the shutdown. But it wasnt clear whether the president was abandoning his stated position of not negotiating, or simply managing his image through stagecraft.
This is not sitting well with many Republicans, who chafe at the notion that the president would leave them alone to wallow in the mess they made. Now they claim that the president is not being a leader because he wont engage representatives who have no interest in being led."
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"Obamacare is the bright red line in House Republicans dim world. They cant countenance the idea that they are out of power and out of options.
These people are exploiting the regular rules of Congress to flout the normal rules of order, turning majority rules into minority rules."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/opinion/blow-minority-rules.html?hpw