There’s an aspect to this that has gotten lost in all the inside baseball and it’s kind of the dog that isn’t barking:
Ten months ago after Obama was re-elected, the news was all about how the Republican party was on its last legs and about to die. If you had said back then that in September of 2013 the debate would be about whether to defund Obamacare, and the tax increases, new spending, and end to the sequester, etc would be completely off the table and that a “win” for the President would be defined as maintaining discretionary spending at an Eisenhower percentage of GDP with the Bush tax cuts for the middle class permanently enshrined in federal law...you would have been considered a total wackjob.
We haven’t won, but we’re playing a weak hand pretty damn well.
See here: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/176506/?show-at-comment=275080#comment-275080
That’s not me, but we have to recognize that we’re on a roll here and without acknowledging that we can’t have a solid strategy.
My point is (and I’ll take a complete dismantlement of Obamacare, but it ain’t gonna happen) we need to keep on winning. We’ve got a ton of great scandals to exploit if we’re the Party of Liberty. With that, we can win in 2014, 16 and going forward for a generation, maybe two. If not, the GOP is a footnote.
Hold the line! Do not surrender! The House and the House alone has the constitutional power to win this appropriations fight against an illegally expanding federal government, per James Madison, Federalist 58. The Founders saw this coming and gave we the people the tools to head if off through our elected representatives. This is the people’s fight against unconstitutional government and we can win it as long as we can prevent our reps from surrendering. Obama/Reid cannot get the funds for obamacare if our House refuses to appropriate them!! Period!! No matter how long it takes!! There’s nothing more important to the republic!!