What do you rate the odds of the GOP leadership defunding Obamacare?
What do you rate the odds of the GOP leadership defunding Obamacare?
Well, there you’d be talking about just the House Leadership. Not the talking heads at the RNC, or the Cornyn Cabal in the senate. It all comes down to the House with that one, even though its really Mike Lee’s proposal.
What are the odds of defunding now? Unlikely, but I think Mike knew that going in. Remember, these House members are all up for election in 2014. They are going to have to go back to districts with either a yae or nae on defunding Obamacare, and will face primary challenges accordingly. There’s perhaps not a single more damaging vote that an incumbent Republican could take right now than that, which is why the way Mike has framed it has been so brilliant. House members are having to choose. There’s no ‘symbolism’ here. Its either defund or don’t. Boehner or district?
You fund it... you OWN it. It’s why Mitch McConnell is suffering in Kentucky, because he denounced it.