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.
Republican congressmen want to make noises like they CARE... but in fact, they don’t care one way or another.
They want to be SEEN as responsible and relevant and have NOT been for a very long time.
Hayek wrote about this phenomenon; when conservatives in congress (parliament in the case he wrote about) compromise with the collectivists and abdicate their role as lawmakers to the executive, congress becomes nothing more than a debating society and a place to air grievances to the deaf bureaucracies they created.
The GOP cannot psychologically move past 1994. They are paralyzed with fear that they will be ruined if they shut the govt down for a few days to get what they and the American people want.