Amerikaanse begrotingscrisis resultaat van maandenlange planning

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Republikeinen liepen aan de leiband van schimmige conservatieve groeperingen, aldus de New York Times:

Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III gathered in the capital to plot strategy. Their push to repeal Mr. Obama’s health care law was going nowhere, and they desperately needed a new plan.

Out of that session, held one morning in a location the members insist on keeping secret, came a little-noticed “blueprint to defunding Obamacare,” signed by Mr. Meese and leaders of more than three dozen conservative groups.

It articulated a take-no-prisoners legislative strategy that had long percolated in conservative circles: that Republicans could derail the health care overhaul if conservative lawmakers were willing to push fellow Republicans — including their cautious leaders — into cutting off financing for the entire federal government. […]

To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of conservatives show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo the law, the Affordable Care Act, since its passage in 2010 — waged by a galaxy of conservative groups with more money, organized tactics and interconnections than is commonly known. […]

The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort. A group linked to the Kochs, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, disbursed more than $200 million last year to nonprofit organizations involved in the fight. Included was $5 million to Generation Opportunity, which created a buzz last month with an Internet advertisement showing a menacing Uncle Sam figure popping up between a woman’s legs during a gynecological exam.

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#2 Steeph

Ook fijn leesvoer in deze, de burgeroorlog is nog niet ten einde:
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/07/shutdown_shows_the_civil_war_never_ended_partner/

#4 Joost

@1: Oud nieuws. Obama zei hierover in 2011 al:

I think that it’s important to understand the vantage point of a senator versus the vantage point of a president. When you’re a senator, traditionally what’s happened is, this is always a lousy vote. Nobody likes to be tagged as having increased the debt limit — for the United States by a trillion dollars. As president, you start realizing, you know what, we, we can’t play around with this stuff. This is the full faith and credit of the United States. And so that was just an example of a new senator making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country. And I’m the first one to acknowledge it.

En daarbij moet je niet vergeten dat in die tijd de republikeinen de debt limit konden verhogen ZONDER steun van de democraten. Het was dus symboolpolitiek.

#5 keest

En met onverwachte effecten: onderhandelingen over vrijhandelsakkoorden met EU en Aziatische landen haperen:
http://www.globalinfo.nl/Nieuws/bijvangst-shutdown-vs-vrijhandelsakkoorden-in-de-soep.html

#6 Bismarck

@5: Een geluk bij een ongeluk.

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