McCain: GOP's Gov't Shutdown Over Obamacare Was a "Fool's Errand"

Friday, October 11, 2013

McCain: GOP's Gov't Shutdown Over Obamacare Was a "Fool's Errand"

Posted By Jim Nintzel on Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM

Talking Points Memo flags an interview that Sen. John McCain did with Fox News:

When anchor Martha MacCallum asked him about the White House's handling of the suspension of death benefits to military families, McCain said that while the administration deserves blame it was a GOP-induced shutdown that caused the problem in the first place.

"Let's have a little straight talk, Martha," McCain said. "[The administration] wouldn't have had the opportunity to handle it that way if we had not shut down the government on a fool's errand that we were not going to accomplish. The whole premise of shutting down the government was the repeal of Obamacare. I fought against Obamacare harder than any of the people who wanted to shut down the government."