Its about Obama inflicting pain on American families in order to put political heat on the Republicans. To essentially get them to break without getting anything they want.
10/6/2013:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: He says, and he said it publicly on many occasions, that you came to him back in July and offered to pass a clean government funding resolution — no Obamacare amendments — it was $70 billion dollars below what the Senate wanted, they accepted it, and now you've reneged on that offer.
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: No, clearly there was a conversation about doing this.
GEORGE STEPHANOUPOULOS: Several conversations.
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: Several.
GEORGE STEPHANOUPOULOS: And you offered a clean resolution.
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: But I and my members decided that the threat of Obamacare and what was happening was so important, that it was time for us to take a stand. We took a stand.
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10/6/2013: