House Republicans May Use Debt Ceiling As Leverage In Fight Against Obamacare

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post



WASHINGTON -- Seemingly conceding that shutting down the government in order to defund the president's health care law would be a dangerous political gamble, House Republican leadership is now looking at the idea of using the debt ceiling as a pressure point instead.

On Wednesday evening, Reuters quoted an aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) as saying that the need to raise the nation's debt ceiling was a "good leverage point" to force action on Obamacare.

But what type of action, exactly, would Republicans pursue? A Cantor aide told The Huffington Post that there are talks about using the debt ceiling to push for postponements or structural changes to the law, but not getting rid of the law entirely.

"Not repeal," said the aide, when asked what was in the cards. "One of many things we can pursue on debt limit [is] potentially the individual mandate delay and codifying the business mandate delay. And perhaps other aspects."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/debt-ceiling-obamacare_n_3794987.html

[valerief]

1. I hate these people. nt

[jberryhill]

2. Can't they just ban federally funded abortions a couple more times?

[AgingAmerican]

3. So they will threaten to collapse the world economy?

Again?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. "Let's see. How can we mess things up more?"

[Iliyah]

5. UGH

these people don't give a shit about the health and welfare of Americans.

[Dawson Leery]

6. At this point, I would burn my ballot rather than vote for a Republican.

[nyquil_man]

7. Imagine if the average person operated on this logic.

Don't like something in your house? Just don't pay the bills. Problem solved, right?

[Festivito]

8. Further ruin our credit rating.

Then in a few years say your credit rating went down in the Obama administration.

[Safetykitten]

9. Oh, I thought these people were irrelevent, according to people here...

you know, the destructive path/arc they are always on.

How funny.

[geek tragedy]

11. Yeah, like that idiot who said the Republicans weren't to blame for

the problems in implementing Obamacare due to Republican sabotage.

[KansDem]

10. Yet, no debt ceiling when Bush wanted to experience wargasm...

That trick cost us $1.5 trillion and we're still paying for it!

[red dog 1]

12. "Not repeal," said the aide to Eric cantor.

I guess 40 votes to repeal ObamaCare were enough for them.
Now they'll probably vote 40 times to not raise the debt ceiling.

Thanks to onehandle for posting this.