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Watch this GOP Rep. become discombobulated at the question.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/thomas-roberts/53285555#53285330
dballance
(5,756 posts)She didn't say one sentence without lying. She said the GOP didn't want the shutdown even in light of the NY Times article that proves they've planned it for month. She lied and said Obama and Reid were the ones who wanted the shutdown.
I love Thomas Roberts. He wasn't letting her get away with anything.
BTW, the dog is cowering under the bed right now after all my screaming at the computer screen. I'm going to have to break out the Greenies to get him out.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Your poor dog! Better get him out of there and pet him lots.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)ROBERTS>> congressman, let me ask you, when it comes to obama care, do you hate obama care more than you love your country? \
BLACKBURN>> i've got to tell you something. i think that comments like that that you are making are just incredibly inappropriate. what we have to realize --
ROBERTS>> you don't think it's incredibly inappropriate to shut down our government and take all the hostages of americans that you've taken? no, no, no, it's not inappropriate because you took the government hostage through the shutdown and all the american people , you're walking them to a cliff, the economy, and you're going to push them over one by one based on the fact that you don't like the aca. that's all it is. you don't like the affordable care act .
BLACKBURN>> listen to yourself. listen to yourself. just listen to the way you're sounding, my goodness. we didn't want a government shutdown . we don't want a government default?
ROBERTS>> Really? because on August the 6th at the economic club of national -- on august the 6th you said everything we can do whether it's defunding, delaying, replacing, all of our energy needs to be every one of our efforts. i applaud Ted Cruz for getting out there and bringing this to the forefront. did you not say that?
BLACKBURN>> those are comments that i did make to the economic club, and let me tell you why.
ROBERTS>> so you have been planning a shutdown since august.
BLACKBURN>> no, not at all. not at all. what you are doing is so inappropriate. we didn't want a shutdown. what we want to do is solve problems.
ROBERTS>> how can you say that you didn't want a shutdown if you said that everything we can do is defunding, delaying --
BLACKBURN>> to a $2.6 trillion program. it is too expensive to afford. we know from history you can look at what happened in tennessee with ten-care and you can look at how this affected our state. by the way, it was a democrat governor who had to come in and reshape that program. what we're saying is let's learn from the mistakes of the past. let's look at things that are lessons learned --
ROBERTS>> but senator bob corker calling this silly and self-defeating all the effort that's being placed into the efforts to try to do something with obama care based on closing off the government and then trying to push us into default.
BLACKBURN>> i've got to tell you, it is not house republicans that wanted a government shutdown . you know as well as i do that the president and leader reid are the ones that were pushing for a shutdown. everybody is aware of that at this point in time. what we are seeking to do is to solve the problem.
jjewell
(618 posts)MSNBC has taken down the video... Is there another link to it anywhere?