Senator Cruz: “ “Today, far too many Republicans joined Harry Reid in giving the Democrats the ability to fund ObamaCare,” he said.”
I’m sorry, but Senator Cruz is simply wrong on this. No matter what, the Democrats will always have the ability to reinsert Obamacare funding back into any bill the passes the senate. Senator Cruz’s method was going to force a shutdown. So was voting for cloture. Either path leads to either surrender by one party or the other, compromise, or shutdown.
BTW, I still think Republicans should have stood firm with Cruz on this regardless of whether they believed it would work or not. I personally didn’t think it would work, but once Cruz made his stand, the rest of the party should have backed his play. Had they done so, we’d be pretty much where we are now anyway—approaching an impasse and a shutdown—but we could have at least proved we were ready to stand together as one team on this.
Improved. There's no fixing it now.
And the house will always have the ability to reject the senate’s amendments. The House has the sole power to make appropriations (or deny them) per James Madison, Federalist 58. There’s absolutely nothing the senate can do about it other than make threats.
And this can play out all the way to Nov 2014 if necessary. The people know the truth and know who to vote out. And there is nothing more important to the preservation of the constitution and our Republic! All other business can wait.
No matter what, the Democrats will always have the ability to shutdown the government to fund Obamacare.
And confidence that they won’t have to.
House should send back it’s bill funding the government. There’s only one way to deal with blackmailers.
The GOPers just wanted to toss it back to the House to leave their images untarnished.
Great point, but the average American simply cannot comprehend the egos of our Senators. When a Senator looks in the mirror he sees a President.