Evil Republicans or Righteous Democrats? #uspol

"Our strategy was very simple. We couldn't buckle, and we had to say that they were blackmailing the country to get their way... they were willing to shut down the government, throw the country into default for the first time in its history and cut Medicare, Social Security, education and the environment just so they could get their way. And we were trying to say that they were basically terrorists"

It's all just politics.