Extortion indeed. GOP senators back linking Keystone to debt-ceiling increase
'That's how we got the sequester', like that is something to be proud of? And Paul said it; the rethugs own the sequestration. 
GOP senators back linking Keystone to debt-ceiling increase
By Ben Geman - 09/19/13 02:22 PM ET
Several Senate Republicans said Thursday that they support a high-stakes House GOP maneuver to tether an increase in the debt ceiling to approval of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
“I think we should try to do anything we can to do some good things for the country and attaching {Keystone} and using the leverage of the debt ceiling is an acceptable strategy,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told E2-Wire in the Capitol Thursday.
“That’s how we got the sequester,” he added, referring to across-the-board federal budget cuts that stemmed from a 2011 debt-ceiling battle. “People forget that the only we way we got the sequester was by using the leverage of the debt ceiling.”
House GOP leaders announced Wednesday that their debt ceiling package would include, among other provisions, approval of TransCanada Corp.’s controversial pipeline, which remains under Obama administration review.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/323405-senate-republicans-back-keystone-xl-debt-ceiling-link
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I view them with such contempt that I can scarcely describe it.
EXTORTION is exactly what it is.
Goddamn their black souls.
