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This is About Shutting Down Obamacare
By Erick Erickson
October 2nd, 2013 

Congressmen, this is about shutting down Obamacare. 

Democrats keep talking about our refusal to compromise. They don’t realize our compromise is defunding Obamacare. We actually want to repeal it. 

This is it. Our endgame is to leave the whole thing shut down until the President defunds Obamacare. And if he does not defund Obamacare, we leave the whole thing shut down. 

After all, if the government is not spending any money, when we collide with the debt ceiling in two weeks, we should not have to worry since the government is spending so little money. 

This shutdown is about Obamacare. Congressmen, do not take your eyes off the ball. This is not about a grand bargain to restructure the tax code, reform entitlements, or raise revenue. 

This is about shutting down Obamacare. 

On Monday, Harry Reid fretted about Republicans hurting kids with cancer. On Tuesday, when asked why he would not then open back up the National Institutes of Health to help kids with cancer, Reid couldn’t think of a reason why he would do that. 

The Democrats pitted themselves against World War II veterans, spitefully shutting down a memorial otherwise open 24 hours a day. 

The President on Tuesday evening practically begged the stock market to crash to scare Republicans. 

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