Posted on 10/15/2013 2:54:11 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen isn’t a fan of a new House Republican proposal to re-open the government and raise the debt limit, criticizing the majority for its latest salvo on Tuesday even before GOP House Speaker John Boehner hit the microphones to outline the new offer from his caucus.
Mr. Van Hollen, of Maryland, said Republicans were demonstrating the definition of insanity by once again trying to alter the new health care law, a signature legacy item for President Obama.
“Yet here we are, two days before we risk default on the full faith and credit of the United States of America, and House Republicans want to roll the dice in an effort to undermine the Affordable Care Act,” he said. “The GOP’s willingness to risk the entire global economy to enact their right-wing agenda isn’t just irresponsible, it is tantamount to default.”
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Yet another Communist spews some venom.
I agree. Let's instead lower the debt-limit, keep the government closed until we've reached that new lower limit.
Shouting about default and the “full faith and credit of the US” isn’t as powerful as it once was. Millions of people in this country have no credit and their faith in the US dried up a long time ago. So what do they care!
There are only a few countries left on the planet that have any faith in US credit. And they are more or less forced into the deal.
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