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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Clinton: “There’s nothing to negotiate with."
ABC's 'This Week'. Clinton criticized Republican demands, as well as their obsession with Obamacare."I've never seen a time-- can you remember a time in your lifetime when a major political party was just sitting around, begging for America to fail?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/29/bill-clinton-gop-government-shutdown-obamacare_n_4012148.html
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Theres nothing to negotiate with. He shouldnt delay the health care bill. Its the law and were opening the enrollment on October 1. Were ready, Clinton said on This Week. Theyre in better shape now than the country was to implement President Bushs drug program, which everybodys forgotten. Go back and look at the polls, even more unpopular than health care reform is now.
So I think thats a non-starter, Clinton said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-delaying-obamacare-should-be-a-non-starter
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(30,247 posts)Former President Bill Clinton weighed in on an increasingly likely government shutdown in an interview with ABC's 'This Week'. Clinton criticized Republican demands, as well as their obsession with Obamacare.
"I've never seen a time-- can you remember a time in your lifetime when a major political party was just sitting around, begging for America to fail?"
The House voted early Sunday to make major cuts and delays to the Affordable Care Act in exchange for continuing to fund the government. The bill marks the 43rd time that House Republicans have voted to defund or repeal Obamacare. The White House and Senate Democrats have already said that this kind of a demand is a non-starter.
Clinton also said President Obama was right to not take Republican demands seriously.
"If I were the president, I wouldn't negotiate over these draconian cuts that are gonna take food off the table of low-income working people, while they leave all the agricultural subsidies in for high-income farmers and everything else," he said. "It's chilling to me. The entitlement spending is going down as the unemployment rate drops and the economy grows. Half of the deficit's already disappeared. The rest of it just seems almost spiteful."