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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: TimF who wrote (54023)10/1/2013 3:34:26 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
>> You could reasonably make all sorts of negative comments about it, but I'm not sure how "extortion" fits here. Manipulation, deceit, dubious, arguably even unconstitutional could all fit, but where does extortion come in?

Well, I think it as much "extortion" as is what the House Republicans are doing is. I don't think either meets the textbook definition of extortion. I would say I used a bit of hyperbole there, as did RMF, Bob Woodward, and the LA Times.

But what the Senate did definitely strikes me as a shakedown of sorts. I really hope this will come back before the Court -- not as much because I oppose the ACA but because I oppose the process that was used to enact it.
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