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Krauthammer: Obamacare defunding Kabuki, Kamikaze and GOP ‘will end up sushi’
The Daily Caller ^ | 9-20-2013 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 09/20/2013 4:47:26 PM PDT by servo1969

On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer mocked the Republican tactic of using the budget process to defund President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care reform law.

Krauthammer called the House’s vote to defund the law “Kabuki” and warned that it would come back to haunt congressional Republicans.

“I think the Boehner speech is what you would expect,” Krauthammer said. “He didn’t want to do it. He had to do it, so he had to defend it, and that’s Kabuki. I think it’s going to go to the Senate and if we end up with a shutdown, it’s going to be Kamikaze, and the Republicans will end up sushi — very thin slices. And everybody knows this. This is sort of a charade. Cruz is going to get a lot of airtime. He’s gotten a huge amount of airtime. There is nowhere to go on this.”

He did note the law was very unpopular and was fraught with flaws, but he said the Republicans could stand in the way of defeating it.

“The irony is as I have been saying for weeks, Obamacare is so unpopular even the unions are up in arms against it,” he said. “The AFL-CIO came within a hair of calling for its repeal. Right now they want all kinds of changes, which they are not going to get. You’ve got Democrats against it. It’s about to kick in and we heard today that they don’t even have the software that will enable the system to calculate what the subsidies are after hearing that they don’t have the software to ascertain what you say is your income and thus, your subsidy. It’s true, so it’s on an honor system. This is going to be a complete disaster. We’re on the threshold of that. As Chuck indicates, the Republicans were on the upswing of the issue and now this? It’s insane and it’s not going to happen.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charles; gop; gop4deathcare; gop4romneycare; insanityis; insanityisdoingsame; krauthammer; obama; obamacare; romneyagenda; romneycare; stupidity; stupidparty
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So, do nothing and hope it just goes away?

How's that worked out so far, Chuckie?

Maybe we should use that tactic on gun rights as well.

Is that how the Democrats get almost everything they want?

1 posted on 09/20/2013 4:47:26 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Too much thinking; not enough doing.

Happy Friday.

Pray for the brave ones. They’ve struck a nerve.


2 posted on 09/20/2013 4:49:22 PM PDT by stanne
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To: servo1969

sounds good... i like sushi... dragon roll, please...


3 posted on 09/20/2013 4:49:52 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: servo1969

I have a lot of respect for Dr. Krauthammer but he needs a little more fire in the belly.


4 posted on 09/20/2013 4:51:25 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: servo1969

Put a sock in it, Charles.


5 posted on 09/20/2013 4:53:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: servo1969

Krauthammer didn’t see the Reagan victories or the Tea party victories. His opinion is drivel.


6 posted on 09/20/2013 4:55:44 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: latina4dubya
i like sushi... dragon roll, please...

and a salmon skin roll...

Thank God we have folks like Cruz and Bridenstein. The Tea Party will save our Republic

7 posted on 09/20/2013 4:56:57 PM PDT by FatherofFive (MIslam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: servo1969

Why are so many “conservatives” predicting failure and criticizing the effort?


8 posted on 09/20/2013 4:57:08 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: servo1969

Smartest guy in the room attitude here.


9 posted on 09/20/2013 4:57:55 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: servo1969
Oh, well, if Krauthammer says it, it MUST be true! [eyeroll]
10 posted on 09/20/2013 4:58:08 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: servo1969

What does the great one,Mark Levin, have to say about this?


11 posted on 09/20/2013 4:58:12 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: smoothsailing
The voters can see in the House and then the Senate who is voting to keep this monstrosity, job killing law alive in their blind allegiance to Obama. Polls show people on both sides loathe this law. It will be an effective tool in the upcoming elections if nothing else. There may be some dem senators on the hot seat from their constituents.
12 posted on 09/20/2013 4:58:25 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: servo1969

the old saw...”Do or DIe” was never more fitting.

God’s speed to all of us who sense the need to DO whats being done.


13 posted on 09/20/2013 4:58:34 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: servo1969

Doing the right thing is always the right thing to do.

Obamacare (aka KrautCare) is a train wreck for We The People.


14 posted on 09/20/2013 5:00:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: servo1969

So basically, Krauthammer believes we should set zero as our initial bargaining point and fall back from there.


15 posted on 09/20/2013 5:00:29 PM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: G Larry

The fake Republicans a la Karl Rove are coming out of the woodwork for us all to see on this issue. They would much rather just “go along to get along” as usual and are having to buckle under our phone calls. Take note who they are.


16 posted on 09/20/2013 5:00:30 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: servo1969

If CK is right and if the government shuts down then a worst case scenario would be the dems taking the house and holding the senate in 2014.

I’m worried that the GOP could over-play it’s hand at some point.

You can bet “common sense gun control” will be their first agenda item.


17 posted on 09/20/2013 5:00:49 PM PDT by Aglooka (Just another day in the USSA.)
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To: servo1969
Is that how the Democrats get almost everything they want?

We lose every battle we don't bother to fight and the democrats fight every single battle.
18 posted on 09/20/2013 5:00:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: servo1969

He feels the same way about fighting abortion or fighting to lower taxes too.


19 posted on 09/20/2013 5:00:58 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The reason we are where we are today is the belief that posting on a website will fix the nation.)
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To: servo1969

He has a point, in the sense that it gives the Dems a “hammer.” At least according to this account, he provides no alternative. In that sense, he has nothing.


20 posted on 09/20/2013 5:01:02 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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