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Boehner: No Funding Bill Without 1-Year Obamacare Delay
NewsMax ^ | 26 Sep 13 | AP

Posted on 09/26/2013 12:45:56 PM PDT by xzins

Speaker John Boehner said Thursday the GOP-controlled House will not accept a temporary spending bill from the Democratic Senate if it is shorn clean of a tea party plan to "defund Obamacare."

"I don't see that happening," Boehner told reporters.

At the same time, the Ohio Republican said House GOP leaders would unveil legislation to lift the government's borrowing cap, but only if the new health care law is delayed for a year. He defended that measure's relatively modest spending cuts even as some rank-and-file conservatives pressed for more.

"It does not cut spending significantly. It does not fix the problem," Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said of the debt ceiling package. He said he was undecided about whether to support it. "We need to significantly cut federal government spending, or long-term have a balanced budget constitutional amendment," he said.

Obamacare: Massive New Rules Revealed for 2013

Pressure is building on fractious House Republicans as a partial government shutdown looms at midnight Monday if a bitterly-divided Congress can't send a temporary spending bill to President Barack Obama on time.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid immediately rejected Boehner's proposal. Meanwhile, the Senate trudged ahead toward a Friday vote on stripping the defund Obamacare provision from the House-passed stopgap funding bill.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


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KEYWORDS: boehner; obamacare
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To: stockpirate

Bone-us is doing this to give democrats cover for the elections in 2014, this way voters will not feel any pain before the election as the result of Obamacare.

BINGO. My thoughts exactly. They are no different. I am personally done with the Republican party.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Animal Farm


141 posted on 09/26/2013 3:40:17 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (AMNESTY BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL A PIG WITH LIPSTICK)
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To: frogjerk

-— This is why McCain and the RINOS are pissed off. Cruz destroyed their cover.-—

This is enormously important for the conservative movement. It’s a watershed event.


142 posted on 09/26/2013 3:41:43 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: justlurking
But all of it isn't going into effect, one part has already been delayed.

The longer it is delay, the less likely any of it will be implemented.

Many Democrats are already asking for a surcharge tax be removed that they didn't know was there.

143 posted on 09/26/2013 3:43:13 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: xzins
Yes, once implemented it will be virtually impossible to remove.

Delay it, expose it, dismantle it.

144 posted on 09/26/2013 3:45:28 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Jim Robinson; xzins; onyx; trisham; TheOldLady; DJ MacWoW; RedMDer; musicman; Lady Jag; ...
Amen, Jim.

Boehner is trying to appease both sides --- our Ted Cruz side and his true RINO-GOP-E base.

Well, how many elections has that base won lately?

He'd better wise up.

145 posted on 09/26/2013 3:50:34 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx
Well, how many elections has that base won lately?

BTTT!

146 posted on 09/26/2013 3:55:00 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: onyx

Appeasement is sure fail. I’ve heard that God doesn’t approve much of lukewarm efforts. Praying God grants Boehner wisdom and strength to save the Republic with the constitutional tools already available to him (thanks to God Himself who guided the Founders).


147 posted on 09/26/2013 3:59:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Boner could screw up a steel ball.

Concentrated cowardice in its purest form.

148 posted on 09/26/2013 4:01:19 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some days...it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....)
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To: xzins

Back on Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:06:49 PM, this was my suggestion.

—The Republicans must fund Obamacare but with the stipulation that absolutely NO WAIVERS are permitted, including Congress. Republicans can reverse the damage once they own the Senate, the House, and in 2016 the Oval Office.—

I still believe that this is the best way to deal with it.


149 posted on 09/26/2013 4:03:45 PM PDT by UglyinLA
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To: xzins

I sure hope the Pubbies stick to their guns on this one.


150 posted on 09/26/2013 4:04:09 PM PDT by miserare (Fire Eric Holder!)
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To: xzins

Make Bammy put back all his waivers and exemptions and make sure they go in effect January 1.

You’ll see a tidal wave GOP win after 11 months of original recipe Bammycare. Delaying it a year means nobody get to feel the pain prior to the election.

It’s time America gets the goobermint they voted for. Instead , the Bonerheads in the GOP will save Democrats from themselves.


151 posted on 09/26/2013 4:06:42 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: sunrise_sunset

Sure it needs the mandate.
Can it make it only a year without it?

I think so, Billions have already gone to the ‘health exchanges’ .
It might take adding a sentence or three in the bill to cover some issue but our ‘leaders’ have no problem doing that.


152 posted on 09/26/2013 4:08:03 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Jim Robinson

To your words of supreme wisdom, I can only add, Amen.
We must pray for Boehner.


153 posted on 09/26/2013 4:16:02 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: UglyinLA

The Republican controlled house has the constitutional tools (power of the purse) to deny funding of the president’s pet unconstitutional, Marxist/socialist/fascist expansionist project. The house and the house alone has the sole constitutional power to wield this awesome tool to save the constitution and the republic. It is their constitutional duty to rein in the out of control president and senate (per James Madison, Federalist 58).


154 posted on 09/26/2013 4:24:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: xzins

What good does a delay do? The taxes go on, the regulations go on, the confusion deepens. What is the point? Why not just go nuclear and let is all implode? If a wreck is inevitable, and this is a wreck in the making, why delay it?

No matter what happens from here, repeal, delay, defund or continue the health care system of this country, already nothing to write home about but at least it was stable, is wrecked.


155 posted on 09/26/2013 5:08:49 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Roberts made the right call on this, actually. It is a TAX. something the Democrats desperately wanted to avoid it being called.

Unfortuanately for Americans, the media decided to not report that to the sheeple, on a widespread basis, to cover Obama’s butt.


156 posted on 09/26/2013 5:24:57 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: All

Boehner should be congratulated for standing up, not criticized for not doing the impossible.

This took courage and it is an important repudiation of Obamacare.

Need to look at the big picture.

Everyone should call Boehner’s office and let him know we support him in this decision.


157 posted on 09/26/2013 5:49:08 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Sequoyah101
See Rush Limbaugh on "Examining the 'Let It Collapse Theory'" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3071742/posts
158 posted on 09/26/2013 5:50:02 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: TurboZamboni

see post #158


159 posted on 09/26/2013 5:51:52 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

“delayed implementation is still delayed implementation.

And for the last few years we’ve been fighting implementation of ObamaCare.

We keep losing sight of the fact that what we want is REPEAL!

Defunding was a “delaying tactic” to eventually buy the time to get to repeal.

Delay is also a delaying tactic.

Anything to prevent implementation, because once a government program has ever been implemented it has been next to impossible to stop it.”

You are right on the money — we need to keep delaying it, and work to get a Republican majority and hopefully a Republican president to repeal it, but in the meantime, any delay is good.


160 posted on 09/26/2013 5:51:53 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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