Steve King: Shutdown an Obama ‘tantrum’
Sept 20, 2013 14:03:38 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Sept 20, 2013 14:03:38 GMT -5
Steve King: Shutdown an Obama ‘tantrum’
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By JAMES ARKIN | 9/20/13 1:20 PM EDT
Rep. Steve King said Friday that if the government shuts down, it will be “the equivalent of a political tantrum” from President Barack Obama.
Earlier Friday, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government while defunding Obamacare. King said on CNN that it was a “strong Republican vote.”
“So the House will make sure that the funds are available. And if the president should decide he’s going to shut down the government, it will never be the House of Representatives, if this happens it will be either an act of either Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate or the president or them working in conjunction with each other,” King said. “If the president decides to shut the government down, it will be the equivalent of a political tantrum, saying ‘I will have my piece of signature legislation even if the American people reject it and I’ll punish you by shutting the government down if I don’t get my way.’”
King said polls have shown the American people rejecting Obamacare, and that the vote to defund the health care law are in response to that sentiment. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has repeatedly said the upper chamber will not pass a bill defunding the health care law and President Obama said he would veto such a bill if it made it to his desk.
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By JAMES ARKIN | 9/20/13 1:20 PM EDT
Rep. Steve King said Friday that if the government shuts down, it will be “the equivalent of a political tantrum” from President Barack Obama.
Earlier Friday, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government while defunding Obamacare. King said on CNN that it was a “strong Republican vote.”
“So the House will make sure that the funds are available. And if the president should decide he’s going to shut down the government, it will never be the House of Representatives, if this happens it will be either an act of either Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate or the president or them working in conjunction with each other,” King said. “If the president decides to shut the government down, it will be the equivalent of a political tantrum, saying ‘I will have my piece of signature legislation even if the American people reject it and I’ll punish you by shutting the government down if I don’t get my way.’”
King said polls have shown the American people rejecting Obamacare, and that the vote to defund the health care law are in response to that sentiment. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has repeatedly said the upper chamber will not pass a bill defunding the health care law and President Obama said he would veto such a bill if it made it to his desk.
Video at link
