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Mike Lee: Obama Plans Shutdown With 'Malicious' Intent

Thursday, 07 April 2011 05:22 PM EDT

One the leading tea party voices in Congress is suggesting that President Obama might have begun planning a government shutdown last year with “malicious” intent.

“Why was it that a few months ago . . . when the president had both Houses under the control of his party — why did he opt not to pass a budget for fiscal year 2011?” asked Sen. Mike Lee, who helped found the Senate’s Tea Party Caucus earlier this year, according to The Hill.

mike,lee,utah“It was either irresponsible on one hand or deliberate and malicious on the other with intention to bring about a sequence of events that would culminate inevitably in a government shutdown,” said Lee, R-Utah.

The spending measure funding the government is set to expire at midnight Friday.

President Obama has threatened to veto a one-week stopgap measure passed by the House Thursday afternoon that includes language that would prohibit the District of Columbia from using local government funds for abortion services.

“The question we have to ask ourselves is: Why does Barack Obama, president of the United States, want a shutdown?” Lee said in his floor speech.

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One the leading tea party voices in Congress is suggesting that President Obama might have begun planning a government shutdown last year with malicious intent. Why was it that a few months ago . . . when the president had both Houses under the control of his party ...
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