All of you are focusing on the defunding issue. The GOP gave up on that on the first round. Have none of you haggled? You go to the extreme on the first round and then work down. It finally came down to evening out the delay for mandate, and exempting the medical device tax. Had the GOP stuck with defunding you'd have a case, but none of you do because it was ruled out almost immediately. The last offer was about the individual mandate, because Obama decided to give a delay to businesses and leave the individuals high and dry. He's all about special interests (big business = big money), just like what many of you want to accuse the GOP of.
Last offer before shutdown was not defunding. Stop acting as if it was. So to refuse to budge at all -- particularly when Obama has personally changed the law with executive orders -- is what puts some of the blame back on this president and Harry Reid.
Last offer before shutdown was not defunding. Stop acting as if it was. So to refuse to budge at all -- particularly when Obama has personally changed the law with executive orders -- is what puts some of the blame back on this president and Harry Reid.
