Flashback: Pfeiffer Says Obama Would Not Agree to ObamaCare Delay

‘He would not be willing to sign it and the Senate couldn’t pass that’

TAPPER: “Okay. So the Senate passes a bill that funds the government until November, let's say. Sends it back to the House. The House says okay, we won't demand defunding ObamaCare, but let's take away the tax on medical devices or let's delay this provision of ObamaCare, the individual mandate. Would president Obama be willing to sign that?”
PFEIFFER: “He would not be willing to sign it and the Senate couldn't pass that. Speaker Boehner’s job is to pass laws, not bills that have no chance of being law. If they include something he knows for a fact cannot pass the Senate, then he is making a decision to shut down the government. That decision has consequences and he will be House Republicans, because they -- this is something speaker Boehner said he thought was a bad idea until the tea party at the behest of Ted Cruz decided to demand this, so now we're following this path that could lead to a shutdown and even more dangerously, to a default in a few weeks.”

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