[SkyPilot]

"But Cruz also conceded that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "has the votes" in the Senate to strip the defunding language from the continuing-resolution bill (meaning that the Senate could never pass the defunding bill)."

Why is this surprising to anyone?

Freepers, Tea Partiers, and keyboard warriors who refuse to believe that the Democrats control the Senate and the White House are divorced from reality.

They listen to Sean Hannity and Sen Rand Paul make love to each other on the air, and they believe the tripe.

Michael Medved and others were correct: those who have been misleading the public about what the House can really do (and cannot do) are doing so for their own ratings, ego, or political aspirations.

If people want to live on Planet Fantasy, fine. But many of those same people don't want their Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, or other government check to be affected in iota, just "everybody else's" check.

[tacticalogic]

One thing the House can do is force the Senate Democrats to go on record casting votes that will cost them support at the polls. They need to be careful to time it so that it's fresh in people's minds when the time comes.

[snarkybob]

“Freepers, Tea Partiers, and keyboard warriors who refuse to believe that the Democrats control the Senate and the White House are divorced from reality.”

Exactly. Very well said. Kind of reminds me of all the people denying the polls showing Obama winning a second term.

Obamacare will be funded and IMHO a frontal assault by conservatives is a suicide mission. The media will savage any conservative that tries it. I understand that dying by a line in the sand makes good cable TV.