You know with what weasels they are, that an escape hatch has been hatched inside the bill/resolution/vote.
Posted on 09/18/2013 10:27:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Republican leadership will attempt to pass a government-funding bill with language that defunds Obamacare, according to senior aides.
The bill, called a continuing resolution, will likely come to the House floor late this week, roughly two weeks before funding for the federal government expires on Oct. 1.
The attempt to defund Obamacare, which has almost no chance of being enacted into law, signals that Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy felt the need to take a sharp turn to the right in order to pass a government funding bill through the House. The House GOP leadership’s preferred plan - to attach a non-binding rider to defund the law - was rejected by several dozen rank-and-file Republican lawmakers, in an embarrassing setback for Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy.
“No decisions have been made, or will be made, until House Republican Members meet and talk tomorrow,” Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, told POLITICO.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The GOP won’t do it. To many in buisness WANT Obama care.
Keep the phone calls and e-mails going.....don’t let up!!
Somebody needs to explain that the business special interest have money but no votes. After being outspent 6 to 1 by Bloomberg et all 2 democrat state senators went down to defeat in Colorado.
When voters are passionate about an issue attack ads accomplish nothing. Voters are passionate about Obamacare and Amnesty.
Remember Colorado. Throw out, throw out, throw out.
“Defund”
As though it were funded in the first place.
Exactly. I would loudly remind the communists of how they promised us in the beginning that Obamacare would actually save us money, and then ask them what they need funding for anyway. What difference does it make?
Hillary had 900 files... with what we know about N S A, there’s probably a lot that is being held over the heads of certain congress member’s heads.
...speculation
Not like guns. There is no massive grass roots organisation like the NRA.
The recalls in Colorado were organized by ordinary folks in Colorado, not the NRA. NRA, to their credit, ran a few ads. That was it. This was a 100% grassroots effort.
Interestingly enough, more democrats than republicans voted to recall Angela Giron in Pueblo. The gun laws, environmental laws and election laws were rammed through like Obamacare was. That, more than the laws themselves, prompted the recalls.
Is Obamacare disliked as much as what the Colorado state nuthouse did? If so, the money spent on attack ads won't matter.
Go out and talk to people about Obammacare. Most are worried, but want some sort of socialized care (remember, we have socialized medicine now).
And health care does not have the same reaction in the populace as guns. Guns as a symbol in American life are very powerful. Healthcare is not. I used the NRA as an example because it represents not the forces of moneyed class, but a true grass roots organization. It is narrowly focused on one task, and has resisted attempts by those on the right and left to wander into areas outside of that task.
Healthcare does not have that reaction. Even on this board, there are many who want and demand that someone else pay for top tier health care because it was “Promised” them.
Simply put, we will have single payer healthcare, with all of its horrors, soon. To many forces want it.
About the time the death panels start denying grandpas surgery they may see the light.
Big Business money is all that matters.
Business rights the policy, sets the laws, and controls the regulation. The average congress critter knows that he or she can help draft a law, and then retire to the firm that wrote it.
Take a look at the FDA and the incestuous pharmaceutical companies.
“to attach a non-binding rider to defund the law”
Now that’s the strategy of fraudulent Republicans. Way to go Boys!
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