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GOP leaders confounded on stopgap spending bill
AP ^ | 9/12/2013

Posted on 09/12/2013 1:23:14 PM PDT by markomalley

GOP leaders eager to avoid blame for a possible government shutdown next month appear confounded by conservatives' passion for using fast-approaching deadlines to derail the implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, conceded Thursday his plan was all but dead for quickly passing a temporary spending bill that also defunds Obamacare, make the Senate vote on each idea separately and then send only the portion for keeping the government open to the White House for the president's signature.

Meanwhile, new freelance effort by rank-and-file Republicans to condition keeping the government open or preventing a debt ceiling default on delaying Obamacare for a year hit a brick wall of opposition from Democrats vowing to never let the health care law be delayed or unraveled.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boehner; budget; defundobamacare; fireboehner; obamacaredeception
Boehner: "Darn those darned tea partiers...((sniff))"
1 posted on 09/12/2013 1:23:14 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

The gop leadership would be ‘confounded’ to find it’s own a$$ with both hands, a map, and a compass.


2 posted on 09/12/2013 1:28:39 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: markomalley
Write a Balanced Budget Amendment, lower the Debt Ceiling, and include Language that FREEZES ALL SPENDING at 2004 Levels...NO LAW SUBSEQUENTLY PASSED AFTER THE FREEZE DATE SHALL BE IMPLEMENTED OR FUNDED. NO OFFICE CREATED THAT IS NOT PROVIDED FOR IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, SPECIFICALLY, SHALL BE FUNDED.

Should save a Trillion Taxpayer dollars or more, and sh$#-can the Czars, Regulatory Agencies, and handouts to Cronies.

3 posted on 09/12/2013 1:35:32 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: markomalley

Lack of a Republican PR machine is on purpose. Muddled messaging is a hat trick performed by the usual suspects, because they are not against Obamacare.

Turn the Senate Conservatives loose to PR this thing and rally the troops, and you’ve got a winning ticket and some clout.

Women hate Obamacare, the union hates it, business hates it, but who would know that, by the way Boehner & Cantor message it and run from stopping it?


4 posted on 09/12/2013 1:40:38 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: markomalley

“delaying Obamacare for a year hit a brick wall of opposition from Democrats vowing to never let the health care law be delayed or unraveled.”

Except for when Der Fuhrer decides to arbitrarily exempt or change the plan for his or his parties benefit.


5 posted on 09/12/2013 1:51:28 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: markomalley

All they have to do is pass a budget that defunds Obamacare.

If the Senate won’ pass it or Obama won’t sign it, then it is Obama or the Senate who are responsible for shutting down the gov’t!!!!

And it is the responsibility of the House GOP to make that point clear!


6 posted on 09/12/2013 2:09:48 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: traditional1

Sounds good to me, but not to the Dems - and they hold the Senate.


7 posted on 09/12/2013 2:20:04 PM PDT by expat2
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To: G Larry

I like it! Unfortunately, Obama, Reid, and Pelosi own the media and the point that will be made clear is that the GOP did it.


8 posted on 09/12/2013 2:22:26 PM PDT by expat2
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To: markomalley

Defund it and take your medicine. January, 2011, the day Bonor took over should have been the day to defund this nonsense.


9 posted on 09/12/2013 2:42:41 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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