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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2013, 11:44 PM Oct 2013

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 wasn’t 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 won’t engage representatives who have no interest in being led."

and....

"Obamacare is the bright red line in House Republicans’ dim world. They can’t 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

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Charles Blow sums it up: "Obamacare is the bright red line in House Republicans’ dim world." (Original Post) kpete Oct 2013 OP
"OUT OF POWER AND OUT OF OPTIONS" Skittles Oct 2013 #1
Not so much the policy as the man imo. Rex Oct 2013 #2
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. Not so much the policy as the man imo.
Fri Oct 4, 2013, 12:01 AM
Oct 2013

There red line is the GOP in Congress working with Obama. It's always been their agenda. Now they went and shit in their own nest.

Fuck them.

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