[muawiyah]

The Supreme Court told you that all the relevant parts of ObamaKKKare could be authorized under the taxing authority. That means that recission ~ and defunding ~ only requires a majority vote in the Senate, not 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.

It would be up to Obama to sign the bill, or not sign it. If he didn't sign it, ObamaKKKare would be dead anyway becaue it wouldn't be funded.

[kabar]

No, Obamacare wouldn't be defunded. Even under a continuing resolution, the funding would be there. And much of the funding for Obamacare has already been provided.

Defunding the Already Pre-Funded Obamacare

One largely unknown fact is that $6-billion or more was immediately appropriated in the new law and approximately $105-billion more was appropriated for FY2011 and beyond. That violates the typical Congressional process of appropriations. The normal process typically involves enacting authorization bills that authorize spending, and then follows those with separate legislation that actually appropriates the money. This enables those to be balanced with other spending decisions. The PPACA contained large authorizations for future appropriations as well as containing these actual appropriations. That made it quite different from most bills, even major legislation.

To any who do not realize that over $105-billion has already been appropriated to fund Obamacare, I direct your attention to the February 10, 2011, revision of the Congressional Research Service’s paper, “Appropriations and Fund Transfers in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),” CRS number R41301. It documents the specific provisions that I’m discussing and the magnitude of those advance appropriations.