Posted on 09/21/2013 5:11:01 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Americans who are fed up with Obamacare won a victory yesterday. The House voted to defund Obamacare while still funding the federal government to avoid a “devastating” shutdown. (I shall not digress, but it’s beyond distressing to hear liberals try to convince Americans that any government slowdown is comparable to “terrorism.”)
Now the battle goes to the Senate, and we’ll find out if Harry Reid is so committed to the horrendous “Un-affordable Care Act” that he’ll be the one to shut down the government to fund the unworkable Obamacare.
Let’s be clear. Republicans in Congress aren't advocating a government shutdown. That’s why they voted in the House to fully fund our bureaucracy while defunding Obamacare. The conservatives in Congress are listening to the majority of Americans who do not want Obamacare.
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We have your backs, Ted and Mike! #DefundObamacare
Those of us who hang in there supporting a major political party with our energy, time, and contributions would like to believe that that party would praise principled conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for following through on campaign promises. We’d like to believe that the GOP establishment would applaud the way these bold leaders have rallied the grassroots to their cause. But, no, such praise would require a commensurate level of guts and leadership, and the permanent political class in D.C. is nothing if not gutless and rudderless.
(((PING)))
Ted pretty much owes his Senate election victory to Sarah. And without Ted, we wouldn’t be here now. Thanks Sarah!
When Dingy Harry nixes the continuing resolution which does not fund Obamacare.
The very next step should be to Totally Defund the EPA. You remember, those stupid leftist who have deemed new regulations that kill the coal industry.
CLOSE the EPA, Totally. Forever. Let the states determine how they will control reasonable environmental standards.
Then as Ted Cruz has suggested, Department by department pass a house bill for funding to prevent a shutdown of the government. Every thing except ObamaCare and the EPA and whatever other agency wants to overstep their authority in support of the O_Btard.
Cruz and Lee are the real-men fighters. Looks like Rand Paul is a surrender monkey :~(
The only way to go.
Along with appropriate messaging.
You have to give it to her, our Sarah certainly has a way with words.
Burn it all down
Scatter the stones
Salt the earth.
Then, pass a CR to fund the Military.
Fund all original mandated dept.
Forget about the EPA, IRS, NEA, and the others Gov. Perry forgot about
This is our Stalingrad folks.
It amazes me to hear the talking heads and elected progressives tell us to suck it up because its going to be the law as if the people have no right to oppose, change, or eliminate it.
I was quite interested for a while in writing legislation to do just that.
The problem is (I did not know this when I started looking into it) that the EPA was not created by Congress, and no law authorizes it or describes its structure or authority.
The EPA was created by Executive Order (Nixon), to enforce laws Congress had already passed such as the Clean Air Act, the Water Quality Act, the Clean Waters Restoration Act, the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Act, and others.
These are not really laws in the conventional sense, but rather enabling acts, directing or authorizing the President to do certain things such as "ensure clean air".
So, the authority to do the things the EPA does was (unconstitutionally) vested in the Executive Branch by Congress between 1955 and 1970, and the EPA is simply a device or contrivance by which the President exercises what Congress commanded. As such, it is totally within the President's area of responsibility.
So, there is no EPA law that could be repealed. If Congress (somehow) ordered the President to revoke the EO creating the EPA, it would be necessary for the President to create other structures to carry out the underlying acts of legislation.
In this regard, the EPA is a lot like Obamacare - sort of para-constitutional. Once established without proper authority, impossible to remove.
Repeal the law that Congress passed which enabled the President to establish the enforcement agency.
...and the DOE, for God’s sake!
“...para-constitutional. Once established without proper authority, impossible to remove.”
Exactly. Thank you, Kind Sir.
We are in a WORLD of hurt, all the way around. EVERY pillar of our Society is being kicked out from under us by our current (illegal, usurper) CIC, as well as too many others before him.
I’m past mad. I’m past crying. I’m ready to FIGHT.
time to rattle the senate big time! remind them they have platinum health care for life while they are gutting yours and rationing it and YOU VOTE AND REMEMBER!
Hit Larmar Alexander of TN hard he is a pro obamacare and is up for reelection, and WE WANT HIM GONE! RINO THAT HE IS. Him and Corker both.
The House voted to defund Obamacare while still funding the federal government to avoid a "devastating" shutdown. (I shall not digress, but it’s beyond distressing to hear liberals try to convince Americans that any government slowdown is comparable to "terrorism.") Now the battle goes to the Senate, and we’ll find out if Harry Reid is so committed to the horrendous "Un-affordable Care Act" that he’ll be the one to shut down the government to fund the unworkable Obamacare.Thanks Timber Rattler.
You have to give it to her, our Sarah certainly has a way with words.
I liked her from the start of her nationwide career, and like her all the more today; I believe Ronald Reagan would like her, too.
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