Posted on 09/16/2013 1:42:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
In just two weeks, millions of Americans will become eligible to sign up for the Obamacare exchanges. It will mark the first time millions of voters will have the opportunity to opt into Obamacare, and they will do so with the expectation of receiving benefits in a few short months. Opponents of President Obama’s health care regime can argue about the quality and cost of that care, but entitlement programs are notoriously difficult to unravel once the money starts flowing.
To date, there is just one legislative strategy on the table that is geared toward stopping Obamacare before the exchanges open on October 1st — defund Obamacare on the year-end spending bill. The strategy is supported by Senators like Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT), Congressmen like Justin Amash (R-MI) and Mark Meadows (R-NC), and conservative voters all across the country.
First, it is important to understand what conservatives mean by “defunding Obamacare.”
Defunding Obamacare means attaching a legislative rider (think of the Hyde Amendment) to the year-end spending bill, which will be considered by September 30, the day before the Obamacare exchanges open for enrollment. The rider would prohibit any funds from being spent on any activities to implement or enforce Obamacare, rescind unspent balances that have already been appropriated and turn off the exchange subsidy and new Medicaid spending, the so-called mandatory spending. Fortunately, the language described already exists in the form of the Defund Obamacare Act of 2013 introduced by Cruz and Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA).
Second, it is important to understand defunding Obamacare is not a new idea.
In 2011, after Republicans took control of the House thanks to the tea party wave, they included a defunding provision on their continuing resolution when it first passed the House. Obviously the provision was jettisoned in subsequent...
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
I almost wonder if it is worth letting it just blow up in America’s face in all its wonderful inglory. If there is a God (or people acknowledge Him again, rather) the Democrat brand name should be Mud for a century, for what they wished on this place.
Make your calls emails folks. Stand with Cruz/Lee/Graves.
Now is not the time to sit idle!
I don’t see how a small band of patriots can get this turned around... The rino cockroaches that live in D.C. are oblivious ,, they are running the clock out... and I have to believe that even if we get the rider we want it will somehow be lost through a printing accident or some other procedural trick to make it ineligible.
This is starting to look like the beginnings of “We the Living” where they thought their lives were in tatters stepping off the train in Petrograd and had absolutely no clue how bad it would be a few years down the road. I myself have “tea party” on my voter registration which means I will be ineligible for any gov’t job or benefit and will not even qualify for antibiotics at the local hospital.
DEFUND! DEFUND! DEFUND!
Kudlow is wrong. Cruz is right.
Congress can't make a law that says Congress can't make a law. To do that requires amending the Constitution.
So, even though the CR is only supposed to be about discretionary spending, the Congress can still attach a rider expressly banning both discretionary and mandatory spending on ObamaCare. "Mandatory" is only a law, and laws can be changed. Actually, they could attach a rider repealing the whole damn thing outright!
Of course, in order for such as this to work, it has to get through the Senate, and Zero has to sign it. We know that's not going to happen. So then the government gets "shut down".
What happens next? Do Obama and the Senate get blamed for the shutdown? Or does the MSM manage swing public opinion towards blaming the Republicans for causing a shutdown in order to get rid of an overwhelmingly unpopular law?
What's the resolution? Obama caves? The GOP caves? Or more likely, a compromise: delay implementation a year or two, this time legally, since it's via legislation, not executive whim.
I would say that the first step would be to vote in politicians with the will to do it and vote out politicians who do not have the will to do it.
But I think we are of like mind.
I think that is the reason they do not want a shutdown. After a few weeks, when NOTHING changes, most working folks might decide we don't need so much federal government. Shutting down fedgov would show just how useless and wasteful fedzilla is. Most of it could cease to exist without anybody noticing.
That story is so American it hurts. That is how we did it for the first 150 years or so. Thanks for the nice story.
Thanks for posting that. Looking forward to researching.
Well for me... there’s a world out there that needs the gospel and all the political tomfoolery is but one symptom of it. I will share and preach the gospel by whatever means the good Lord lends to me. And if that gets a grip everything else will begin to come into place because there is an omnipotent Lord in charge here.
We got fat and happy with a “moral,” “Christianized” society and dropped the radical gospel power right on the floor. God had to let the former, “a form of religion but denying its power,” fail good and hard. Because God wants us to wake up to something better.
If you preach a gospel even remotely approaching that as powerful as what the 1st century had, people who have never seen that before are going to think you are full of yourself, because you will be so bold and full of God’s glory and full of faith. And it will be radical and there will be clear signs that God is blessing, and sin will wilt as people are radically saved.
Your welcome. I am happy with it.
We need to contact our congresscritters, especially if they are Republicans (as too many of them are weenies). Time is running out.
That's why I'm not relying on the Stupid Party. Don't participate in this. Don't pay the fine, don't sign up for the exchanges. Save your money, put it on a prepaid card, and get treated overseas. There are clinics in Hungary, Costa Rica, and Iceland, for example that have excellent facilities.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.