The ‘defund it’ approach would seem to mean that the voters would have to keep Republicans as the majority in the house every year that Obamacare is not repealed.
On the one hand, as Obama goes down in flames and the RATS are abandoning his ship, floating Rats can ‘afford’ to abandon Obamacare and claim they want a NEW, IMPROVED Obamacare lite or some other equally unacceptable thing but it lets them repeal Obamacare while telling the lefties that they are going to do it better with the ‘public option intact’. On the other hand, if Nancy Pelosi is still Minority Leader in the House - she would help punish and Rat who actually did that.
The de-fund (not appropriating funding) approach can be done in conjunction with the symbolic repeal approach. In fact, it is the constitutional responsibility of each house member to not appropriate funds for an unconstitutional law.
The de-fund approach must be accompanied by vigorous oversight hearings of all important aspects of 0bamacare. We must examine privacy concerns with electronic medical records, rationing boards, physician penalties for non-compliance with rationing, IRS enforcement rules with detailed information on fines and penalties for non-compliance of mandates, cost analysis of subsidies for exchanges and ramifications of people taking the penalty (instead of buying insurance) as they do in MA right now.
Get Berwick and Sebelius up there ASAP and ask TOUGH really TOUGH questions! (if they don’t go, even more reason to de-fund) The Kagan SCOTUS hearings were way too soft, and I expect and demand that the House members will be sharp and incisive in their questioning. We will also need some good experts on our side to critique 0bamacare when the Marxists have their turn at questioning (someone like Dr. Janda?).
Once we have some good videos of these hearings, they will go viral (that will be our job). The MSM will no longer be able to write the narrative of government shutdown like they did in 1995 with Newt vs Clinton.