or socialism on people has been by way of medicine..."
President Ronald Reagan
With us or against all Americans. Simple thing here.
Here's the thing:
Only Obama can "shut down the government," by refusing to sign appropriation bills.
And only the House can appropriate.
So who's being dishonest?
Or stupid...
Time for him to go too. He’s become one of them, convinced of all the arguements that not a single dime out of any department can ever be reduced.
This sounds like good advise.
I'm sure such sensible advise was expressed by such a man before the American revolution.
So we close down the Government and lose the House. What good is a House run by Nancy Pelosi who works the strings on the Boehner puppet.
No way will they defund Obamacare, not with Boehner in the drivers seat.
Obamacare and Amnesty will bankrupt the country and the Republicans will be blamed no matter what happens.
But you must be right that what has worked for Democrats in the past won't work for Republicans because well . . . . they're Republicans.
One thing Coburn did was refuse to vet Obama while both were on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2008 which put McCain through the wringer. If Coburn had been honest, we might not have Obama as President.
So then - according to Coburn - the House will be lost if they do not do one single thing to defund a program that virtually EVERYBODY hates (including the Democrat unions who stupidly helped foist this nightmare upon the nation) but thinks the House will be “saved” for Republicans who choose to do nothing, let Obama have his way of more deeply entrenching the program making it more difficult to remove later (which they won’t)??
Coburn has been in Washington too long. Even good people go bad if they dwell in the Capitol too long.
Does anyone think that, if the show was on the other foot, Democrats would hesitate to shut down the government and blame it on a GOP president?
Gutless, gutless, gutless. Coburn is a squish. He CLAIMS he wants smaller government, but won't take any tough ACTION to achieve it.
Should we just shut up and accept this and hope it'll implode on its own?
That's the cowardly way out and that's the current GOP regime's talking points.
I am not signing up for any government-run healthcare, and I'm not paying any fines.
Have these dishonorable whores and traitors have no shame?
Sorry but I have not ever viewed Tom Coburn as the standard bearer for conservatism in the GOP. Sometimes doing the right thing is hard and thats when the real meal deal guys stand out. We know who they are.
No, Tom, the GOP is dishonest, and I have had enough of you and everyone like you.
What?
If you shutdown the government by defunding the government, how is that not stopping the funding of Obamacare?
Obama canceled part of Obamacare using questionable legality and these Republicans like Coburn never really protested. But let some Republicans talk about legally canceling Obamacare, following Obama’s own lead, and these same Republicans squeal like pigs. Instead of standing up to Obama, they peep at him from a distance.
Obama will veto any bill that he knows defunds ObamaCare, and the corrupt media will blame republicans. When that happens, decent people will lose. The answer? Stealth repeal. Stick the repeal in a monstrous “must pass” bill as it comes out of conference committee. Don’t make it incredibly obvious, and don’t draw attention to it, just do it quietly, dishonestly, just like a democrat would. Then, once it’s signed, point out that that one line in an obscure list of trivia is a repeal of ACA.
Defunding lets the WH that we aren’t giving up on getting rid of this TAX.