If the GOP sends him a bill that funds ALL of government with the exception of Obamacare, and he veto’s it who really shut down the government?
Of course the lame stream media are going to say it’s the GOP’s fault and the low information voters will go along with it.
Only people who THINK will conclude rightly that the shutdown will be Obama’s fault.
Last night Levin reported that Boehner has stated that he won’t defund it. Levin said we should now call it Boehnercare.
Because that is an extremely smart move, Boner and company will never consider it.
Of course they are not able to handle the whole ‘race card’ angle that would be attached to it, as well as the ‘partisan’ and ‘extreme’ screeching that would come from liberals in govt and the media.
They have zero idea on how to just deal with it, take the arrows, and do it.
Tragically, there are way too many repubs that actually want to fund obamacare. That’s the rub.
Exactly right.
Personally I’d prefer he be forced to veto the CR. The monies in that affect the entire government and the effect would be pretty quick and obvious. Kind of like the sequester on steroids. And since the CR and nobamacare take effect Oct 1, nobamacare would be stopped in its tracks, supposedly.
If the pubs wait to fight over the CR, nobamacare will already be in effect and I imagine it will be much harder to find enough cojones to do what needs to be done.
My rep said last night at his townhall that if they do this on the CR the senate will just strip all the defunding language and send it back. He wants to draw the line at the Debt Ceiling vote. I’d be OK with that if they didn’t cave it but who trusts Boehner? Most people at the townhall were screaming “shut it down”.