Senator Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor and renamed the Republican government shutdown for what it really is… Blackmail!
This debate is not about the Affordable Care Act. That is something that should be debated, I think it’s something that can be improved. What this debate is about is blackmail and hostage-taking. What my Republican colleagues, especially the right winged extremists in the House are upset about, is not so much Obamacare, what they are upset about is that the lost the election in November.
President Obama won by some 5 million votes! The lost seats, Republicans lost in the Senate, they lost some seats in the House. What they are upset about is that the cannot legislatively accomplish what they want through the normal legislative process. What legislation is about is the House passes a bill, the Senate passes a bill, they get together work on something, the president signs it. They don’t have the support to do that!
So what they have now concluded is that the only way they can go forward is to say if we don’t get our way, if we don’t shutdown the United States government and kill Obamacare or delay Obamacare, why that’s the only game in town, that’s all that we’re gonna do. We can’t do it no other way.
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