TRANSCRIPT: Obama tongue-lashes House Republicans for government shutdown, explains benefits of newly implemented Affordable Care program
buzzz worthy. . . Oct. 1, 2013, President Obama addresses the government shutdown from the Rose Garden. President Barack Obama responded to the shutdown of the federal government this afternoon from the Rose Garden. Neither he nor House Speaker John Boehner would compromise concerning negotiation of a debt reduction bill that would kill Obamacare. Both leaders blamed each other for the stalemate decision that has left over 800 thousand American families without income. "I didn't come here to shut down the government," said Boehner while speaking in the House Chamber before the vote on the resolution on Monday. The Ohio Republican seemed to trivialize the President's stance on the matter, as he continued, "I talked to the president earlier tonight: 'I'm not gonna negotiate, I'm not gonna negotiate, I'm not gonna do this.'" "Well I would say to the president, 'This is not about me. It's not about Republicans. ...