Bob Woodward Says repugicans Are Using Extortion and Blackmail to Defund The Affordable Health Care Act

 

In a rare lucid moment, Bob Woodward has accused the repugican cabal of trying to blackmail and extort Obama into defunding the Affordable Health Care Act,

Woodward said, “This is really serious. Back in 2011, when the crisis visited them, the Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner was running around and saying if we don’t fix this, we could trigger a depression worse than the 1930s. And when I talked to Obama about this, he said, it was the most intense three weeks of his presidency. More than Osama Bin Laden and so forth. so — and the repugicans are out here, a group of them in the House essentially using extortion and blackmail methods to say, if we don’t defund the Affordable Health Care Act we’re not going to do the routine things of government.”
If even a blind squirrel finds a nut, then I guess this is visually impaired squirrel, meet nut. When even noted Sean Handjob fan boy Bob Woodward can see that repugicans are using blackmail and extortion in their attempt to defund the Affordable Health Care Act, things are really going badly for the repugican cabal.
The same Bob Woodward who was a fixture on Faux News when he had an anti-Obama book to sell has changed his tune a bit now that he is not trying to convince the brainwashed, Republican voting, white haired masses to plop down a bit of their Social Security checks on his latest book.
The shocking thing is that Woodward is correct. The repugicans are using blackmail and extortion in their attempt to defund the Affordable Health Care Act. The repugicans can try to dodge this description, but when a group of repugicans are running around threatening to wreck the economy if the Affordable Health Care Act isn’t defunded, it is virtually impossible for the repugican cabal to claim that they aren’t trying to blackmail the president into taking away healthcare for 30 million Americans.

If the death panel lie fits, wear it.

Just when I thought that all hope was lost, Bob Woodward had a rare lucid moment. It is sad to see how far one half of the team that will always be remembered for setting the modern high mark in journalism has fallen. Woodward will likely continue to pander to the wingnuts, because the only thing that the man seems to care about is selling his books. But when even Bob Woodward calls the efforts to defund the Affordable Health Care Act extortion and blackmail, the repugican cabal is seriously screwed.