She certainly has a way with words.
Via Washington Times:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday a “tea party resolution” set for a vote on Friday to avert a government shutdown would devastate health care reforms and investments in jobs, education and research.
Congress must act quickly to pass a continuing resolution that funds federal operations past Sept. 30, but House Speaker John A. Boehner bowed to the right wing of his caucus this week by allowing the chamber to include a provision that defunds President Obama’s health care law.
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said House GOP leadership is being held hostage by its tea party faction — shorthand for its most conservative members — and “playing with fire” by threatening to use the nation’s debt limit to extract unlikely concessions from congressional Democrats and President Obama.
Assuming its bid to defund Obamacare fails in the Democrat-controlled Senate, the House GOP plans to seek a one-year delay to the Affordable Care Act as part of any subsequent deal to extend the government’s borrowing authority.