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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBizarro World: Rubio accuses Obama of threatening to shut down government
TANTAROS: Are you, Senator Marco Rubio, willing to shut down the government over ObamaCare? Because when you talk about the budget, you know better than anyone, that means shut down, potentially.
RUBIO: I think the real question is: Is Barack Obama willing to shut down the government over ObamaCare? In essence, I think we should pay our military. I think we should fund the government. I just dont think we should fund ObamaCare. And what the President is saying is we either fund ObamaCare or we dont fund anything. And I think thats an unreasonable position. And thats the position hes taken and the Democrats have taken.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/07/26/government-shutdown-threats-wont-work-but-maybe-complete-gibberish-will/
RUBIO: I think the real question is: Is Barack Obama willing to shut down the government over ObamaCare? In essence, I think we should pay our military. I think we should fund the government. I just dont think we should fund ObamaCare. And what the President is saying is we either fund ObamaCare or we dont fund anything. And I think thats an unreasonable position. And thats the position hes taken and the Democrats have taken.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/07/26/government-shutdown-threats-wont-work-but-maybe-complete-gibberish-will/
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Bizarro World: Rubio accuses Obama of threatening to shut down government (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Jul 2013
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Huh?
Who does he think he's kidding? The Democrats aren't obstructing themselves, for goodness' sake.
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)2. "Why are you hitting yourself?
As the bully controls the other's hand and hits the other with it.
BeyondGeography
(39,384 posts)3. Rubio is quite the operator
Pushes an immigration bill, wins plaudits from the Schumer/Durbin/D side of the Gang of Eight, gets reamed by the RWNJ's and is now pushing Shutdown over Obamacare. Over-the-top cynicism, but not fatal at all for a world that forgets what happened two days ago.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)4. The guy is a major dumbf@ck. n/t