Posted on 07/12/2013 6:44:10 AM PDT by NOBO2012
A Republican Senate gang of 10 are pushing Congress to strip all funding from ObamaCare, even as Senate Dems, Thursday, struck down a separate effort to kill the law’s most controversial mandates.
With Senator Cruz leading the charge, the Senators assailed the White House’s sudden decision to delay until 2015 the employer mandate, which requires businesses with more than 50 full-time workers to provide health insurance or pay fines.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas introduced a bill with nine GOP co-sponsors to defund implementation of the Affordable Care Act, calling the 2010 law “a colossal mistake” just hours after fellow Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Congress shouldn’t even pass any short-term stopgap spending bills unless they cancel funding for “Obamacare.”
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Sen. Jerry Moran, Kansas
Republican, tried to force the debate on Thursday, offering amendments to defund both the employer and individual mandates as part of the Appropriations Committee’s health spending bill. Both measures were defeated on party-line votes, 16-14.
Democrats accuse Republicans of trying to obstruct the law at every turn, which they said was why Mr. Obama had to delay the employer mandate.
Co-sponsors of the Cruz’s bill include Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Dean Heller (R-NV), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Pat Toomey (R-PA).
Sen. Cruz issued the following statement:
“Consistent with my long-standing position that no continuing resolution or other appropriations measure should fund Obamacare, I am introducing a bill to permanently defund the law...continued here
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Should be interesting to watch the Senate RINOs on this one.
“Co-sponsors of the Cruz’s bill include Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Dean Heller (R-NV), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Pat Toomey (R-PA). “
Oh, really Rubio? You want in on this, too? Trying to shore of your long-lost conservative cred?
Bite it, backstabber.
Ted be very careful.
Careful.
American jobs are being sent to China. A lot of Americans are in crisis.
While many conservatives are against government involvement in healthcare, there are quite a large number of us likewise, fed up with our healthcare as it stands, and ready for some guarantees.
I would not run with this issue.
Just saying.
(though I support everything else you’re doing)
Kill the whole thing.
Now that we know what’s in it we don’t want it Nancy.
It hasn’t even been fully implemented and already it is costing jobs and ruining lives.
Operation Street Cred for Ted 2016 marches forward.
That sounds like the one and ONLY necessary plank for a Presidential candidate’s platform.
He could run and win on that alone!
American jobs are being sent to China. A lot of Americans are in crisis.
While many conservatives are against government involvement in healthcare, there are quite a large number of us likewise, fed up with our healthcare as it stands, and ready for some guarantees.
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Exactly which “guarantees” in this massive tax bill do you want to keep for yourself and those of you who are “fed up with (your) healthcare as it stands”?
wow, that’s a stretch. Take ten minutes, research Sarah Palin, take a deep breath, and realize that China is not the problem with everything in your life you are unhappy about.
Okay, I realize that there is a huge contest on FR to see who can prove their manhood by hating Rubio the most. You are in the running...congrats.
But is there any reason to think that he is not right on Obama Care? Has he ever said or done anything to doubt his cred on Obama Care? He is from Florida, and he is Hispanic...maybe he just disagrees with you on immigration. Does that mean we shouldn’t welcome him on Obama Care?
BTW, I am not Hispanic and not from Florida, and don’t agree with Rubio on immigration. However, I do agree with him on other things, including Obama Care.
I am just presenting a caution to Cruz on the matter.
Our healthcare system is screwed-up bigtime.
In my opinion, it was screwed-up before the change, and it is screwed-up with the change.
I think Cruz is making a huge mistake to take sides on this.
Both sides are wrong. He is not supporting a better option, because both options are lousy.
Cruz is out front of a number of strong issues.
This imho, is not one of them.
I disagree with your optimism.
We are currently heading toward a cliff. America is 17 trillion dollars in debt, and our manufacturing is in crisis.
I strongly support Sarah Palin. Have since before she was selected as the VP nominee, just for reference.
But America is clueless about exports.
We are selling America’s future.
We need jobs.
The feds taking over your body isn’t going to solve anything. What we need to do is go back to catastrophic insurance with high deductibles. Otherwise, insurance can never be affordable.
Your response doesn’t address my question, so I’ll kindly repeat:
Exactly which “guarantees” in this massive tax bill do you want to keep for yourself and those of you who are “fed up with (your) healthcare as it stands”?
I was not being optimistic, but I remain convinced that you are not very well schooled in macro economics and have a huge blind spot with regard to cause and effect and the inter connectedness of economic factors. As such, you have an unhappy obsession with boogeymen that are not your problem.
Since you can’t learn economics, I think they’re doing amazing things with drugs these days.
I think we should bring back American manufacturing.
For 30 years we have squandered what our forefathers left for us.
Now it is vanishing.
Bring it back.
Never said I hated Rubio. I just don’t trust him. See the difference.
It’s also interesting to watch Cornyn’s transformation from junior Kay Barely Republican to Ted Cruz’ shadow. Cornyn’s following the McCain/Hatch strategy as 2014 approaches, hoping he, too, can fake his way through his next primary.
Cruz is now effectively the senior Senator from Texas.
I am merely stating I do not believe Ted Cruz has thought things through if he’s going to pick sides on this.
I do not agree with either side.
I see this as a very controversial wash. No gain for Cruz.
Just my .02.
One reason we trusted Rubio is his Cuban ancestry. Cubans and Puerto Ricans have legal status, we should've backed off from the racist treating all hispanics the same, and gone for the Cuban and Puerto Rican votes, and the desire for small-business success in those communities. I thought Rubio was smart enough to go that way.
He could save himself, I think. Say that as he travels the country he now realizes how the illegals are destroying assimilation, job opportunities, and community stability. File a bill that any illegal turned in by a US citizen will be permanently deported and the US citizen turning them in alive and unharmed gets a finders fee of thousands of dollars.
He's also got to look to people who didn't get fooled and let them do the talking. Signing on to someone else's defunding of Obamacare is a good start.
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