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Defiant House Delays Obamacare; Government Shutdown Looms
CNN ^ | September 29, 2013 | Tom Cohen and Holly Yan

Posted on 09/29/2013 5:58:57 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

In a move that makes a government shutdown very likely, House Republicans approved a spending plan early Sunday morning that would delay Obamacare for a year and repeal its tax on medical devices.

The temporary budget resolution now goes back to the Senate, where Democrats have consistently said any changes to President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law is a deal-killer.

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The decision to vote on the House amendments overnight emerged from a rare weekend GOP caucus meeting called by House Speaker John Boehner. The votes, taken after midnight, were 231-192 for the Obamacare delay, and 248-174 for the medical device tax repeal, mostly along party lines.

Two Democrats broke rank and voted for the Obamacare delay: Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, and Jim Matheson of Iowa.

Seventeen Democrats voted for the tax repeal. Meanwhile, a bill to guarantee pay for military personnel during any shutdown passed 423-0.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Iowa; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; govtshutdown; iowa; jimmatheson; johnboehner; mikemcintyre; northcarolina; obamacare; ohio; zerocare
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Despite what the MSM says, the facts don't lie:

THIS IS A BIPARTISAN BILL!

1 posted on 09/29/2013 5:58:57 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Shut her down!

Delay, delay, delay—then never pass bummercare......

JMHO


2 posted on 09/29/2013 6:01:54 AM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Go home pubbies ... go to church with your family and thank God HE allowed you to be a part of (in my opinion and by faith .. ) His adopted nation.

Our enemy is not flesh and blood ... but some o'them flesh and blood critters sure do act like ol slew foot, eh ?

3 posted on 09/29/2013 6:02:00 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

This is the Repub’s last stand.

If they lose this, they are the new Whig party.


4 posted on 09/29/2013 6:02:21 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Jim Matheson of UTAH
5 posted on 09/29/2013 6:08:18 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Oh,it's the HOUSE that's defiant.What are CNN's ratings these days? Fifty thousand households in prime time is it?
6 posted on 09/29/2013 6:09:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: Utah Binger
Oh well ... he got the "A" right ...

/8^)

7 posted on 09/29/2013 6:09:51 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

CNN: “House makes move to make shutdown likely”
Fox: “House votes to avoid shutdown”

2 alternate realities. 2 countries.


8 posted on 09/29/2013 6:09:57 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: basil

Bipartisan Government Shutdown, here we go. Whoo hoo!!


9 posted on 09/29/2013 6:11:08 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

The key vote of resistance showed only 19 Republican U.S. Senators voting the right way, the others were with Harry Reid and Barack Obama on Friday.

Boehner has lost the mantle of leadership to Ted Cruz and now has to put on this show to pretend he is a leader.

In the end we know Boehner caves as usual.


10 posted on 09/29/2013 6:12:30 AM PDT by Nextrush (BALANCED BUDGET NOW, PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN,CHANGE I BELIEVE IN)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Why is the senate not in session today? Why is the media not all over Reid because of it?

Once again, media bias is on full display.

11 posted on 09/29/2013 6:12:35 AM PDT by JPG (Putin Does Obama.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/09/27/cable-news-ratings-for-thursday-september-26-2013/205178/


12 posted on 09/29/2013 6:13:42 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Good...shut the Feds down. Really...other than the Fed “workers” getting a paid vacation, what does it matter? At least during the “shut-down” maybe some of the Feds will “shut-up”.


13 posted on 09/29/2013 6:13:43 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Rehabilitation Camp?)
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To: ReaganGeneration2
2 alternate realities. 2 countries.

And the two will never reconcile, and cannot coexist indefinitely. I wonder if a final breakup is inevitable?

14 posted on 09/29/2013 6:18:47 AM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks. Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Last night the dems repeated ad nauseum the bill was passed, signed and upheld by SCOTUS. The GOP missed a golden opportunity to remind everyone that SCOTUS did not uphold a mandate based on the Commerce Clause, but the penalties as a tax.

Obama has said the exchanges will open on the 1st regardless. Let them open.

The House should reply by saying let them open. Let anyone who so desires sign up. But there is no compromise on the mandate because the “tax” (penalty) did not originate in the house and we have no plans to originate a new tax.

Further, they should vote on a new bill which prohibits companies from dropping employees from healthcare plans to “force” them into the exchanges.

The GOP needs to up the ante.

15 posted on 09/29/2013 6:22:40 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Nextrush

“Boehner has lost the mantle of leadership to Ted Cruz and now has to put on this show to pretend he is a leader.”

Ted Cruz failed last week. That’s just a fact. I’m no fan of Boehner, but the house had voted to defund obamacare long before that vanity “symbolic” filibuster that didn’t accomplish anything.

Now we have a bipartisan bill that funds the government and the burden is on Reid to keep the government running.


16 posted on 09/29/2013 6:26:23 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: hal ogen

Isn’t it sad this country has become so dependent on the government machine it can’t even be shut down for repairs and maintenance every once in a while??


17 posted on 09/29/2013 6:27:56 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

The republican leadership is in bed with the democrats with this bill, I have said all along that they wanted this healthcare bill to pass, now with this move the make sure voters do NOT feel the effects of Obamacare until after the mid-term elections.

Traitors everyone of them, and no they did not cave they want the same ends as the fascists because they are fascists too.


18 posted on 09/29/2013 6:28:02 AM PDT by stockpirate (Build a gallows outside the US Capital and they will come..or we need to drag them to it..)
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To: Da Coyote

Da Coyote, the repubs just gave the democrats the greatest gift of the mid-term elections, a delay in Obamacare.


19 posted on 09/29/2013 6:29:36 AM PDT by stockpirate (Build a gallows outside the US Capital and they will come..or we need to drag them to it..)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Shut it down for the next three years. It would be amazing to see how well the American people could adapt if they could keep all the money that is sent to the bottomless pit of Greedy Government.


20 posted on 09/29/2013 6:29:54 AM PDT by txrefugee
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