Fox News contributor Erick Erickson is urging conservatives in Congress to separate the debt ceiling and budget fights as part of a strategy to “undermine Obamacare,” and is attacking Republican leaders who he claims want to merge them and preserve Obamacare.
Under the headline “This is the Strategy. Now Do It.”, Erickson, whose bellicose strategies are often favored by Tea Party members, writes on his RedState blog that “Republican Leaders are begging us to merge the continuing resolution fight and debt ceiling fight” because “They want to conflate it with the debt ceiling so they can do a grand bargain and leave Obamacare alone. He singles out Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for criticism over his October 8 Wall Street Journal op-ed on debt ceiling negotiations, stating that that Ryan “wants a grand bargain and not once mentions Obamacare. Not once.”
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