REPUBLICAN Government Shutdown: Schieffer talks to Republican Cornyn about the Closing of Govt.

Bob Schieffer, Face the Nation’s host, repeatedly asked Cornyn why, instead of using normal legislative procedures like passing laws, Republicans were refusing to pass a continuing resolution funding the government or raise the debt ceiling absent changes to several parts of President Obama’s signature health care law. Schieffer compared this strategy to saying “I’m going to throw a brick through your window unless you give me $20:”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/10/06/2739081/schieffer-cornyn-debt-shutdown-ceiling/