Here is the new hostage-taking plan by Republicans to extort the United States government and overturn the result of a democratic election: House GOP will seek a one-year delay on Obamacare as exchange for not shutting down government.
But Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says this is all just a tea party show and that the GOP will "fold like hot cakes" by October 15.
One veteran of the mid-1990s shutdowns, which also pitted a Democratic president against a Republican speaker, warned a temporary shutdown was increasingly likely.http://www.washingtonpost.com/...“It depends if wisdom trumps energy. It hasn’t thus far, has it?” Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said, a dig at those who want to continue the campaign against Obamacare.
Coburn, a freshman House member in the 1990s shutdowns, said it wouldn’t matter much until Oct. 15. That’s when the first paychecks for service members — including those on the front lines of Afghanistan — would not go out.
“When you start getting into military pay, that’s serious. When the people defending this country can’t pay their house payments, things they need to do. . . . We’ll fold like hot cakes if they shut down. Republicans will,” Coburn predicted.
UPDATE: Sen. Coburn and I spoke too soon as commenter Jacoby Jonze pointed out:
GOP is going to pass a bill to pay military...if a shutdown happens.
House bill would pay troops, delay 'Obamacare' 1 yearhttp://www.militarytimes.com/...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has said the Senate will not pass any bill keeping the government open past Monday that would alter the health care law.
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