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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Friday tore into what he called extreme right-wing Republicans for threatening to shut down the government and default on the nations debts if President Barack Obamas health care reform law was not defunded.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Sanders said that he welcomed a discussion about how to improve the health care law.
But one thing is certain, you do not hold the American people hostage by threatening to shut down the government or for the first time in the history of our country not paying our bills and bringing this country and perhaps the entire world into a major financial crisis, he explained. There was an election a year ago on this very issue one of the major issues in the campaign and the Republican candidate said, Lets defund Obamacare. He lost the election! Republicans lost seats in the Senate, they lost seats in the House! And thats what democracy is about.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/27/sanders-epic-senate-rant-shames-right-wing-extremists-for-shutdown-threat/
upi402
(16,854 posts)Or is it just *Americans*?
Bernie for Prez in a perfect world.
Imagine.