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Originally Posted by kermitology
I was hoping to respond in a meaningful way. This seems to me that it's just opinion really. Sure the President and Senate could change all this by bending to the House, or the House could bend to the President and Senate.
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What I look at is that the Tea Party has come to Washington to disrupt the routine. Not just disrupt but to go against anything that Obama and the Democrats try to do to improve the country in order to make Obama look bad and be unsuccessful. To my mind this is just short of treason as they have no intention of doing what's best for the USA. They are out to get Obama at any cost and this is just another example.
The motivations at the lowest are racial and at the other end are economics and power as displayed by the Koch brothers who would be glad to bring the system down or at least bring them to a point of control of government for their benefit.
The ACA is just another example of the tactics employed by the Tea Party controlled Republican Party. To my way of thinking, if you support the Tea Party, you are either a millionaire or you've been brainwashed.
an example of the Republicans tactics which have nothing to do with the improvement of the common American.
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The juxtaposition of Tuesday's two top stories was extraordinary.
The top story all day was that Republicans had shut down the federal government because President Obama wouldn't defund or delay the Affordable Care Act. The other major story was that the government's servers were crashing because so many people were trying to see if they could get insurance through Obamacare.
So on the one hand, Washington was shut down because Republicans don't want Obamacare. On the other hand, Obamacare was nearly shut down because so many Americans wanted Obamacare.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ere-afraid-of/
I'm sure I've left out some points but this is a start but really I don't see the reason for arguing with your friend. This is probably more deep seated than what appears on the surface.