Posted on 09/13/2013 5:00:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint called for an end to “pretend votes” and “gimmicks” to kill the Affordable Care Act and said Republicans must use the budget resolution to defund the president’s health-care law once and for all.
DeMint dismissed the obstacles that a Democrat-controlled Senate and a likely presidential veto could pose to a House budget resolution.
“This is must-pass bill. Our point is Republicans should fund the government in its entirety except for Obamacare,” he said. “They should send that bill to the president, to the Senate, make it clear to Americans, they don’t want government shut down.”
The House has voted more than 40 times time repeal Obamacare, but each attempt has died in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters he reminded Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) of that fact at a meeting between leaders and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Tuesday morning.
“I told him, very directly, that all these things they are trying to do on the Obamacare is just a waste of their time,” Reid said.
Still, DeMint said the unpopularity of the law with the public would eventually cause Democrats – even President Obama – to comply.
“I don’t know what the president would do,” DeMint said. “But I think if the president rejects the government funding, he’s going to have a hard time making the case that somebody else shut it down.”
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Hoorah and Huzzah!
Reason still exists in Washington D.C.
boner, cantor and ol' mcdonald hate Jim DeMint more than they hate obama. The pubbie leaders have balls smaller than mouse nutz.
Alas, Jim's on the outside looking in...
Simple, any American can do it!!! (WWW.DONTFUNDOBAMACARE.COM)
1.4 Million Americans already have!!! Sign & Endorse.....TODAY!!!!!
Where are the bumper stickers that say “Kill OdumboCare”?
These need to be prominenetly displayed and soon.
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