I was just thinking that if Obama agreed to delay the ACA for a year... [View all]

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Which was the GOP demand, they would immediately re-neg on the agreement and demand full defunding of it or they will still bring the economy down.

Obama already agreed to their budget in return for not shutting the government down and look how well that turned out.

When you deal with people who have no honor or scruples the only thing you can do is refuse to deal with them and let the chips fall where they may.
Unfortunately this time the chips may all fall into a bottomless pit, never to be seen again.