Pass the Budget without Obamacare in it.
Well if it was done, of course Obama would veto it, and would steal the money from something else to pay for it.
Obama seems to be running this country. The Congress is useless except as a rubber stamp.
The GOP LOVES Dictator-BaCKSTABBER Romney
for HIS SOLE TYRANNICAL imposition of
ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE and has no, zero, nada,
intention of removing it. EVER.
“Can’t the leadership see that we have very little reason to volunteer for campaigns or contribute to candidates if they’re unwilling to do the job the people sent them to do?”
The leadership for the most part occupies safe seats. Seats are typically safe when the incumbent has significant money to spend as well as the support of the local party organization. The leadership’s first priority is to do the bidding of those who fund their reelections, not the citizens.
The only power citizens who lack the big money to influence a representative have is the ballot. Each individual citizen first must choose whether or not to cast a vote, and then when casting a vote to reward the incumbent or a challenger. Individually the citizen without big money can do no more. There is power in voters organizing collectively but to exercise that power the group must be prepared to with hold votes. Today the leadership believe conservatives are in a trap where they will not vote Democrat and therefore must vote Republican. Since they have no fear of losing the conservative base, they have no reservations about openly defying conservative voters.
Until conservative Republicans either stop voting for Republican incumbents in the belief the Democrat alternative is worse, or stay at home in large numbers, the leadership will continue to take conservative voters for granted.
Those who argue on this forum that conservatives who stayed at home in 2008 should be blamed for Obama’s election are loved by the GOP establishment. The establishment counts on being able to manipulate conservatives into feeling a duty to vote for socialism.
They can't think strategically. They can't communicate (and don't). And they are cowards. They are only concerned about their OWN little miserable careers and perqs. They don't represent us. They represent them.
Stupid and dumb are no way to go through life son.
It's even stupider to go through life re-electing these zeros. They aren't going to get us where we need to go, so what's the point in voting for the generic GOP. None. Stop being enablers of the power-addicted politicians.
Republicans are Ball-Less.
Rand Paul said something similar on Hannity recently,
but I dont understand why McConnell is bothering to point this out, even if EVERY GOP Senator voted 'NO' on a budget that still wouldnt stop it.
Budgets only require 51 Senators not the 60. So he could just vote NO safely
Shutting down the government would do many unpopular things but Obama-care funding IS exempt from a shutdown.
Will make my decade if he loses in Primary.
Of course I’m for getting more conservative Repubs elected but that has not a lot to do with the here and now, which will soon be the debt ceiling debate.
The “shutting down the government” tactic to stop 0bama/Robertscare will not work. What it will do is make it harder to get more conservative Repubs elected because a lot of voters we need to convince to vote R will believe the MSM screeching about “Republicans shutting down the government again.”
We need to just let 0bama/Robertscare fail on its own - as it will - and then make our gains at the ballot box.
jmo
The repubs have no intention of stopping obumbler care.
If they did, they would never have gone to the trouble to negotiate their way out of obumbler care.