“If the house hold the line (as is their constitutional right and duty) then the senate doesn’t even matter. We do not need the senate or the president to defund obamacare. We just need the house not to pass any bill that funds it. Period. No matter what.”
Yes. I agree.
“And as has been posted many times, Obama/Reid cannot shutdown essential services no matter how many times they threaten. The worst they can do is cause legions of government employees to be laid off. Whoopee!”
They realize and we realize it. And for that reason, I don’t think they care so much about the CR. Everyone knows its a nonevent. But throw the debt ceiling into the mix and, well, watch the pucker factor increase tenfold. Note dear leaders recent speech. He was rattled. Not about deathcare, but the debt ceiling.
“But whatever happens, the House must not fund Obamacare. That will be checkmate for our constitution.”
I agree. That’s why we shouldn’t hesitate to up the stakes. It’s just like poker: we got your continuing resolution and raise you a debt ceiling. Oh and by the way, we’re a bunch of insane Tea Partiers. So we’ll be fine if the government shuts down and the debt ceiling isn’t raised.
I don’t give a whit about the credit limit at this time. Today’s fight is not funding obamacare. Win that fight or we lose all. Do not delay the fight. Do not cave in. Do not try to wrap it all up in one big package. The bigger the package the more likely we lose. I don’t trust Boehner/Ryan et al to win the credit limit fight. They don’t have the skills.
The obamacare fight is easy. Just say NO and there’s nothing Obama/Reid can do about it. They cannot fund it if the house says NO. It’s James Madison’s constitutional check on runaway unconstitutional government.
Do not fund the unconstitutional, liberty-destroying, nation-wrecking obamacare. Period! That would be checkmate om America.