Exactly. How did Obama shut down the government? This was a demand that the republicans created in order to fund the government. They tried to hold the federal workers hostage in order to defund the Affordable Care Act. A law that was passed by Congress and survived legal challenge with the Supreme Court. Obama did not demand anything in order to keep the government open, so how is this the same thing?
The Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling. They shutdown the government so they can force a defunding on ACA. Obama said he would veto such a bill.
The longer you go on the, the more idiotic you look.
Bullshyt. Stop trying to twist things to suit your argument. It was a shutdown prompted by BOTH sides
and I don’t recall people saying he was stopping people from paying their mortgage
he could’ve easily fell back on Obamacare and the Debt Limit discussions or he could’ve passed Obamacare when the Democrats controlled both houses but he waited until the Republicans got in office to try to bring it to the floor and people had to go two weeks without pay
but since he’s the good guy on the right side, it’s okay
Republicans, primarily in the House, aimed to defund Obamacare. None of the 12 regular appropriation bills to pay for government operations had been passed. A group of 80 House Republicans
signed a letter to House Speaker John Boehner saying this was the time to eliminate any dollars that would allow Obamacare to move forward.
Before the shutdown, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., warned that a shutdown would be a bad idea and in any event wouldn’t block most of Obamacare from moving forward.
We rated that claim
Mostly True. Most key parts of the law – the insurance marketplace, the premium subsidies, and the taxes and regulations – would continue unimpeded.
But if Obamacare was one rallying cry, the debt ceiling turned out to be just as important. The government was closing in on the
legal limit of $16.699 trillion in debt. Without the flexibility to borrow more, Washington faced the prospect of not being able to pay back Treasury notes as they came due. Republicans wanted broader spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit.
At the time, Republicans controlled the House, and Democrats held the Senate. Obama had said he would veto any bill that defunded Obamacare. His veto threat and the Democratic-controlled Senate doomed any measure that undermined the fledgling health care program.
The House passed several bills that eliminated Obamacare funding, and the Senate kept stripping out those provisions.
The government shutdown began on Oct. 1. On Oct. 15, the
rating agency Fitch said the U.S. government’s credit worthiness would be reviewed. A downgrade would have dramatically increased borrowing costs.
On Oct. 16, Senate Democrats and Republicans came to terms, agreeing to raise the debt ceiling and keep government open through mid December. Obamacare funding was untouched.
If so, you're basically giving away money
