[RedMDer]

Call The Senate. Melt the lines!!

[MulberryDraw]

Down in the mouth freepers start their “it doesn’t matter” chants in 3,2,1,...

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Can 0.00bama fund it through an EO, as an ‘emergency’ measure, bearing in mind that 0.00 has made so many changes to legislation through EOs, rather than Congress? (This is NOT a suggestion, merely a query by a Canuck who does not know the ins and outs of the US government, particularly funding.)

Thanks.

[dps.inspect]

You fight to win, but if you lose, the fact that you fought is a moral victory, so don't give up the fight... Look in the book Revelation 21:8... it characterizes the kind of people who will be cast into hell; the first mentioned is "the cowardly". It is the brave who fight a war with little chance of winning, but it is the coward who surrenders and accepts the status quo so as to go on enjoying the comforts of the ruling class. To hell with the cowardly!

[SeekAndFind]

[HOYA97]

Remember, this CR was passed with the votes of Democrats. This is a bi-partisan CR.

[Pan_Yan]

So the House makes a show of being conservative today. Let's see if on September 30th they'll make another patented Boehner grand compromise. The Democrats will agree to strip the vending machine labeling provision from Obamacare in return for adding 30 million more people to the Food Stamp program. And Boehner will tell the other Republicans “it was the best deal I could get.”

[Hoodat]

Did Houston just freeze over?

[The Cajun]

1 Republican traitor
4 Republicans NV, WHY?
10 RATS NV, crapping their pants for reelection?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Why only until December 15th? Do we really want to go through this every 2 months?

Or are they thinking that at some point they will actually do their job and pass the regular spending bills......

That would be funny.

[Adult Dog]

Shut’er down.

For ten years or so.

[RushingWater]

I would just love it for Boehner to dismiss Congress now.

[TLI]

I wonder just how much money is being saved by NOT funding commie-care?

This year, two years, ten years worth of savings?

[Pollster1]

“What difference does it make”.

I mean, this is bad politics. Congress should pass individual stopgap spending bills to fund the military, VA, State Department, and other legitimate functions of government - and pass them one at a time in separate bills. Do not defund ObamaCare until all legitimate non-ObamaCare functions are funded at the desired level. Then, once it’s a question of shutting down just frivolous nonsense that is outside the scope of the Enumerated Powers, that is the time to face down Obama. If he wants to shut down HHS, that will get a big yawn from 80% of the country and 100% of productive members of society.

[KwHorn77]

Watch them cave when the Senate sends it back. We all know it's going to happen, because that's what the GOP does when King BHO & the DemoNazis send a bill back. The GOP couldn't beat the Liberal girly man King BHO if they wanted.

[Cheerio]

Read HERE

The objections to the defunding strategy are as unconvincing as they are feckless. Naysayers argue that President Obama will never sign a bill to fund government operations that slashes his signature achievement. Thus, the argument goes, defunding can only result in a government shutdown for which, thanks to Obama’s slavish media, Republicans will be blamed. Also trotted out, of course, is the bromide the GOP establishment chants to rationalize its supine posture whenever opportunities arise to oppose Obama’s hard Left agenda: “We only control one-half of one-third of the government, so we cannot dictate policy.”

Resistance is futile, in other words, so why resist at all? It’s an ironic argument since it seems Republican leadership only resists when doing so is futile, when the resistance is token. Thus the prior votes to repeal Obamacare, all forty of them, taken in the comfortable knowledge that they had no chance of succeeding – just going through the motions in faux fulfillment of a commitment to the base to work tirelessly to undo the law. But when something might not be futile – when it could actually work, and therefore entails hard work and risk – we generally find leadership in folderoo mode, babbling its one-half-of-one-third mantra.

[Nextrush]

The GOP is great at conservative speech making.

Action never happens, government always gets bigger, the debt ceiling is extended higher and higher.

The GOPe leadership reads the opinion polls and they know speaking against Obamacare right now is good politics.

Real change and real action will not happen. Republicans and Democrats grow government and move us further to the left at different rates of speed.

George W. Bush: 2008 bailout, Medicare Part D, Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, the Patriot Act opening the door to NSA spying etc. etc. etc.

[freedom462]

This is frighteningly unusual for the House. Maybe the best parts of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are rubbing off on the rest of them?

[Rapscallion]

Well done. Now, hold the line!

[Sherman Hale]

This is nothing more than smoke and mirrors by socialist Republicrats(Republicans and Democrats)to divert attention from the fact regulating healthcare is not an enumerated power granted to Congress in Article I Section VIII of the U.S. Constitution. It is a power reserved to the states or to the people per the 10th Amendment. Any action taken by the federal government regarding healthcare, including defunding, is unconstitutional. That fact aside, expecting the very branch of government, who usurped the people's Constitutional rights, to restore those rights is as unrealistic as expecting a thief to voluntarily return property he stole from you. The people must rely on themselves, not government, to take back those powers. That can only occur by nullifying an unconstitutional act of Congress. See www.nullifynow.com for more information.