R's met the president's bull horn on Monday with a whimper. "Huge, huge problem" [McConnell] and "the consequences are real"[Boehner] are not going to capture the hearts and minds of the American people. And these timid, oh-so-restrained, diplomatic words of Republican leaders are not effective in combating the over-the-top, emotional, effective vilifying language of the president. Time for a game change. Real, real fast.
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Obama is much better at the blame game. He has spent four years laying the groundwork for this. Republicans want to balance the budget on the backs of parents of children with disabilities in order to protect millionaires and billionaires. They take the American people hostage to achieve their ends. Number two Democrat in the House, Steny Hoyer played right along, saying the Republicans are like people who take their own child hostage and threaten to shoot them if they don’t get what they want.
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