Today's Hostage-Taking Quote

President Obama to the Business Roundtable today:

"You have never seen in the history of the United States, the debt ceiling -- or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling -- being used to extort a president or a governing party, and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with budget and have nothing to do with the debt."

With government shutdown a mere 12 days away, the House Crackpot Caucus Rethuglicans are poised to send a spending bill to the Senate that defunds Obamacare.

Yet another example of why we can't have nice things in this country.