Schieffer: “We won’t fund the government unless we can also get you to agree not to fund Obamacare. Which is almost like, I’m gonna throw a brick through your window unless you give me $20.”

Some good hard-nosed questions for GOP Senator John Cornyn of Texas (who’s more than a bit of a neanderthal), about the Republican extortion racket that is the government shutdown.

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