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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

White House petition calls for GOP to be branded ‘terrorist organization’

As the last hope of avoiding a government shutdown is fading away, the Republican's critics have produced a petition on the White House’s platform intended to blast the Republican approach to the imminent congressional standoff over Obamacare and government spending.

The petition filed over the weekend to the White House’s “We the People” platform features a response from J.D. of North Wales, Pa, to recent reports that the House Republicans might only be open to increasing the debt limit, if Democrats nod to a one-year delay of President Barack Obama's health care law, along with other highly divisive demands.

"Designate the Republican party a terrorist organization for repeatedly threatening the full faith & credit of the U.S.A. ... since repeatedly threatening to default on the full faith and credit of the United States over and over again every time you don't get what you want is essentially economic terrorism," the petition says, describing what the October shutdown is going to look like.

Another petition made a similar call, that is, to “arrest and prosecute the House GOP for treason".

Though there hasn’t been a lot of active signing of the petitions, no more than a few hundred signatures out of 100,000 are required to incite a response from the White House, still these documents are evidence of the tone being used to criticize the hardline Republican approach to the ceaseless debate over funding the government and avoiding an impending shutdown.

House Republicans have included anti-Obamacare riders several times in their versions of a short-term bill, keeping the government open past midnight on Tuesday. Though the Democratic-dominated Senate has agreed on the Republican spending levels in the bills, it was very clear that the anti-Obamacare measure is not going to make it through. On Monday, the Senate declined a bill which would have annulled the medical device tax and delayed for one year implementation of the Affordable Care Act to fund the government.

The Republicans though, headed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), have said they wouldn't be willing to "risk the full faith and credit of the federal government," but Democrats have said that their repeated refusal to provide a "clean bill" without an anti-Obamacare measure is evidence they might be.

Voice of Russia, Huffington Post