[JohnG45]

Seriously [sic] the house can defund programs all by itself?,

Of course not, but what they can do is put Obama and the Democrat controlled Senate in a box by adding an amendment to the continuing resolution (CR) to prohibit all federal funds from being spent to implement or enforce the provisions of Obamacare.

Since Reid refuses to present a budget to fund the government for the past three years, the only way the government is funded is through a series of continuing resolutions (CRs) which the House must agree to.

Boehner has successfully blocked attempts by Tea Party members and others to insert language into the now multiple CRs that would result in the defunding of Obamacare.

[mike_9958]

"Boehner has successfully blocked attempts by Tea Party members and others to insert language into the now multiple CRs that would result in the defunding of Obamacare."

NOT True:

Republicans ran their 2010 mid-term campaigns on chiefly the promise that the Democratic health care law would eventually be repealed, but in the meantime, de-funding the entire health care legislation would have to be a way to at least slow down the implementation of the law. H.R. 1 promised to accomplish the de-funding of Obamacare, but according to discoveries made by former Republican Oklahoma Congressman now a distinguish fellow at the Heritage Foundation Ernest Istook, the health care bill has a mandatory appropriation that would fund the legislation almost a decade into the future.