NO, YOU SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT! - If the government doesn’t shut down over ObamaCare, who will get the blame? Seriously. With conservative activists demanding a goal-line stand on “defunding” the president’s 2010 health law, House and Senate Republicans are in a back-and-forth over who should be responsible for running out the clock. Not surprisingly, each side thinks the other should be holding the football when time expires on Sept. 30.
Taps86 wrote:
Ummm…the healthcare situation was FAR better before Obamacare than it is now. People were complaing about a 10% increase before Obamacare, now they are sh*tting their pants over 30% increases after its passage.
Kill it. It is a pox on this country.
And if it means shutting down the government for half a year? Ok.
You think the military is going away? Or air-traffic controllers? Or the FBI will just close its doors? If so, you’re high.
Back to you, Boehner - One of the leading proponents of the defunding strategy, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made it clear on Wednesday that he and his band of fellow conservatives won’t be able to block Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from stripping out a “defunding” provision the House is expected to pass in a government funding bill in the coming days. Cruz has been trying to stir grassroots support for the “defund” movement, which some in the House apparently took to mean that he would lead a filibuster and engage in all possible tactics to hamper Reid’s efforts. Cruz issued a statement, though, saying Reid has the votes to proceed and called on the House to hold the line.
Taps86 wrote:
Yay! Boehner finally grew a pair.
(I say that sarcastically. He will still be a nad-less wonder no matter what happens.)
[“Those %$#@ers ran ads in my district over the August recess. And now they're throwing us under the bus?” – A Republican House member fuming to Fox News Senior Capitol Hill Producer Chad Pergram over Cruz’s statement.]
Taps86 wrote:
Now they know what it feels like to actually vote for a Republican. “I voted for the guy because he said he was a conservative! And he threw me under the bus the minute he got to Wahsington!”
Cruz is about as close to a hero in Washington DC as they come these days.
They doth protest too much - Part of the hope of House leaders is that the outspoken conservatives in the Senate will have to take ownership of shutdown brinkmanship. The fulminations over Cruz’s stance were so over-the-top that they suggest plenty of gamesmanship. This finger-pointing, though, takes time. And not only is there a government to fund, but a looming request to increase the federal debt limit.
Taps86 wrote:
“Not only is there a government to fund”? The government is over-funded and loaded to the gills with waste and dead-wood that would have a hard time getting a job at McDonalds given their pathetic work ethic and poor record of performance. Fire them, and let them eat at soup kitchens for all I care. They took money from my pocket and p*ssed it away. That’s money that puts a roof over my kids’ heads, food in their bellies, and clothes on their backs.
The takeaway - With the clock running and public opinion running strongly against the idea of a government shutdown, the Alphonse and Gaston routine over ObamaCare absolutism suggests that neither side of Capitol Hill is really ready to take the plunge. And while Republicans are bickering, Reid and Obama are making ready their unified front in negotiations: ending the automatic caps on federal spending that were part of the 2011 debt-limit deal, the so-called “sequestration.” House Speaker John Boehner will try today to rally his team behind a new ask – delaying ObamaCare for a year – but the clock is working against him.
Taps86 wrote:
I didn’t know that the concepts of right and wrong were subject to public opinion polls.
And “Reid and Obama are making ready their unified front in negotiations: ending the automatic caps on federal spending that were part of the 2011 debt-limit deal, the so-called ‘sequestration.’”? If I recall, correctly, when sequestration came around, both Reid and Idi Amin Jr. attributed that to Republicans.
Can’t have it both ways.
What, are you afraid your government EBT card is not going to get refilled after September 30th?
Sound to me like you are either a mindless hack, or horribly ignorant.
