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80 House members: Shutdown better than ObamaCare
FOX News ^ | Aug 23, 2013 | AP

Posted on 08/23/2013 11:55:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

More than a third of House Republicans urged their leader Thursday to trigger a government shutdown rather than fund the implementation of the health care overhaul they call "ObamaCare."

A letter from 80 Republicans asked Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to resist any spending bills that would accommodate the new health care law, which is nearing a critical stage of signing up millions of Americans for health coverage.

Because it's virtually certain that President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate would reject such demands, leaders of both parties say the standoff likely would result in a partial shutdown of the federal government, similar to those that occurred in 1995 and 1996.

The letter is mixed news for Boehner and other GOP leaders who view a government shutdown as politically unwise.

With 80 of the House's 233 Republicans signing the letter, a solid majority of 153 has refrained from trying to limit Boehner's options. That presumably would allow the speaker to push a bipartisan bill that funds the health law and is supported by a "majority of the majority" of his fellow Republicans, which Boehner says is essential.

However, he would need more than 60 Democratic votes to pass such a bill. That would give Democrats a major voice in its details.

The federal 2013 fiscal year ends Sept. 30. New money must be appropriated by then to avoid a shutdown of countless government offices and agencies.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aca; defund; ffrr; nobamacare; obama; obamacare; shutdown
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1 posted on 08/23/2013 11:55:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

Boehner’s already shot them down. I saw a thread about it earlier this morning. Coward.


2 posted on 08/23/2013 11:57:22 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Jim Robinson

Boehner will flip his whig when he reads this.


3 posted on 08/23/2013 11:58:20 AM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: Jim Robinson

take away the Obama’s travel money , LOL, OMG cards every night with Reggie


4 posted on 08/23/2013 11:58:43 AM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Jim Robinson

Keep up the pressure!


5 posted on 08/23/2013 11:58:46 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Shutdown or stop the monster (ObamaCare).


6 posted on 08/23/2013 12:00:58 PM PDT by veracious
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To: Jim Robinson
The GOP is smitten with pride in ObamaCARE
because it is RomneyCARE, and the GOP INVENTED IT.


7 posted on 08/23/2013 12:02:14 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Jim Robinson
New money must be appropriated by then to avoid a shutdown of countless government offices and agencies.

If they are countless, then we really have a problem.

8 posted on 08/23/2013 12:04:51 PM PDT by needmorePaine
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To: Jim Robinson

“Because it’s virtually certain that President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate would reject such demands, leaders of both parties say the standoff likely would result in a partial shutdown of the federal government, similar to those that occurred in 1995 and 1996. “

Then THEY will have shut down the government.

Boehner and 2/3 of those worthless pieces of crap are ball-less wonders. They make me sick to my stomach. The ENTIRE Obama agenda is being mplemented with NO resistance fomr them.

Even on gun control they caved. Try to buy any ammo lately? The deal was - o.k. let them buy the guns but cut off their ammunition.

2/3 of the GOP leadership needs to be voted out of office, starting with Boehner - the archpriest of the Surrender Monkeys.


9 posted on 08/23/2013 12:05:03 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: Jim Robinson

I wish the A$$hats would talk back a bit.

When the house passes a budget that does not include funding for Obamacare, it will be the democrats who shut down the government when they refuse to pass or even vote on it. Even if they do pass it so they won’t get pinned, the president will Veto and HE’LL be the one that shuts down government.

It is impossible for the HoR to “shut down” government.


10 posted on 08/23/2013 12:10:13 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Waiting for next tagline.)
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With 80 of the House's 233 Republicans signing the letter, a solid majority of 153 has refrained from trying to limit Boehner's options.

Those 153 are the same guys who voted to repeal ObamaScare some 40 times? Kabuki theater.

11 posted on 08/23/2013 12:11:53 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Those opposed to a gov’t shutdown should TELL OBAMA TO SIGN THE BUDGET!!!

Congress passes a budget that defunds Obamacare!
Passing that budget doesn’t result in a gov’t shutdown!

OBAMA’S TANTRUM, AND REFUSAL TO SIGN THAT BUDGET RESULTS IN THE GOV’T SHUTDOWN!


12 posted on 08/23/2013 12:14:03 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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Either a poorly written story, or the Repubs in the House, all of them are idiots. obama and the dems int he Senate are the ones that would shut down the government to get what they want. If the Repubs are framing it as “we’ll send this up and shut down the government”, then they are morons.

The meme the Repubs should have is we are funding the government, except for obamacare.


13 posted on 08/23/2013 12:14:57 PM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Timber Rattler

Fully funding present levels with no cuts in obamacare... the boehner way... surrender.

LLS


14 posted on 08/23/2013 12:28:07 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Turbo Pig; Jim Robinson
The meme the Repubs should have is we are funding the government, except for obamacare.
The problem we have here is that the GOP is in on this.

They just don't want to "LOOK" like they are either in support of Obamacre or in on it.
15 posted on 08/23/2013 12:28:11 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Turbo Pig

Republicans are idiots. They want the Obamacare battle to be on the debt ceiling and not the CR. That happens in December, they will be back on the cliff, Obama will toss the pubs a bone and cut more defense spending and Obamacare will stay in.

Then they will all take a great picture about how they negotiated and did something bi-partisan which the Conservatives wouldn’t do.

And with that we are all screwed.


16 posted on 08/23/2013 12:36:55 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Make today a great day. Insult a liberal.)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

Obama and Holder are publicly speaking about their ‘plan of the week’ that are just more smokescreen distractions to divert attention away from the incompetent manner Obama has handled his day job.

The best indicator of a PHONY ADMINISTRATION is the number of its REAL SCANDALS.

Commie Tyrant Obama’s current talking points are thus smokescreen distractions for the products of Obama’s first 4 years in office:
* Refusal to close US Southern Border to Mexican illegal alien invaders
* No known un-forged records of Place of Birth
* No known un-forged records of University grades
* Benghazi Massacre
* Dereliction of Duty as CIC during Benghazi Massacre
* Cover up of Benghazi Massacre
* Destruction of Seal Team Six
* Cover up of Fast and Furious murder of US Border Agent by Exec. Order
* IRS-Obama’care” Commune Death Grip on Wealth and Health
* NSA-Gestapo Death Grip on all citizen’s communications
* Use of Courts against News Media
* Use of Supreme Court to install Un-Constitutional Obama’care’ Tax
* Destruction of the US Coal Industry
* Refusal to permit XL Pipeline construction
* Trillion Dollar a year Federal Overspending
* Monthly violations of the US Constitution by Obama
* Use of Exec. Orders to bypass Congress.

REPLACE sniveling coward Speaker Boehner with a FIGHTER!

It is time to IMPEACH Tyrant B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro.
_______________________

Tyrant B. Hussein Obama, (aka Barry Soetoro), continues his unopposed efforts to expand Totalitarian Obamanation in Liberty-based America.

Where are the Republican opponents of Tyrant Obama?

Why have the Articles of Impeachment for Tyrant Obama not been issued by US House Speaker Boehner, or Pro-Welfare Republicans Cantor or Ryan?

Have House and Senate Pro-Welfare Republicans formed a cave-in pact with Pro-Welfare Democrats to protect Tyrant Obama?

The main thing that Speaker Boehner is afraid of is being blamed for doing his job.

Speaker Boehner’s job now is to shut down the NON-ESSENTIAL parts of the US Federal Government until Obama’care’ is ABOLISHED, however long that takes.


17 posted on 08/23/2013 12:58:07 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Jim Robinson

That’s about right. I figure that conservatives hold about 75-80 seats in the House and about 15 in the Senate.

Playing my broken record once again, I note that the gop wing of the uniparty is just as keen to see owebamacare implemented as the ‘rat wing. And it’s going into effect in a little over a month.


18 posted on 08/23/2013 1:01:22 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Here's what's going on...posted this morning:

GOP Leadership Plan for CR/Obamacare: Meekness or Malice

19 posted on 08/23/2013 1:23:26 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler

This is the GOP we’re talking about. They are as useless as balls on a priest.


20 posted on 08/23/2013 1:54:18 PM PDT by huckfillary (qual tyo ta)
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