Mayor Emanuel offers fiery defense of Obama in wake of shutdown

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

With adjectives flying, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday gave a fiery defense of his former boss, President Obama, in the stand-off with Republicans over the Affordable Care Act that triggered the federal government shutdown.

“It’s foolish. It’s preventable . . .. What they’re doing [in] the Republican Party in Congress [by] allowing a small minority to try to hold the rest of the country hostage is wrong for the people, the children, seniors. It’s wrong for the economy and people who have jobs . . .. It’s an economic engine. It’s a totally wrongheaded approach with real consequences,” the mayor said.

The Rahmfather.