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Reid: Defunding Obamacare ‘dead on arrival’ in Senate
The Daily Caller ^ | 9-23-2013 | Alexis Levinson

Posted on 09/24/2013 6:02:23 AM PDT by servo1969

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the House version of the bill that funds the government and defunds Obamacare “dead on arrival” in the Senate, accusing Republicans of trying to hold the country “ransom.”

On Friday, the House passed a bill that funds the government through December 15, while defunding Obamacare. Reid moved to begin consideration of the bill when the Senate returned to session Monday afternoon, but made clear that it would be sent back to the House without that provision.

“Any bill that defunds Obama’s health-care plan is dead on arrival in the Senate,” Reid said on the Senate floor.

“We’re not going to bow to tea party anarchists who deny that Obamacare is the law,” he added.

The government is set to shutdown in seven days if Democrats and Republicans cannot come to an agreement and pass a bill to fund it. Reid, acknowledging that the clock is winding down, said his chamber would “act as quickly as tea party Republicans will allow,” a reference to Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who has said he will filibuster the bill that does not defund Obamacare.

Reid described that plan — to insist on defunding Obamacare — as a “Thelma and Louise style” plan meant to “drive this economy off the cliff.”

“Obamacare is the law of the land,” Reid said, “and will remain the law of the land as long as Barack Obama is president of the United States and I am Senate Majority Leader.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; obamacare; reid
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Suck it, b!tches.
1 posted on 09/24/2013 6:02:23 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

New casting for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy...

Eye of Sauron = Eye of Soros

Sarumon = Harry Reid

Legolas = Ted Cruz

Arwen = Sarah Palin

Witch King of Angmar = Obama

King of Gondor = Rand Paul

King of Rohan = Vlad Putin

Gollum = Dennis Kucinich

Mouth of Sauron = Nasty Pelousy

Lord Elrond = Rick Perry

Frodo, Sam, Pippin, Merry and the Hobbits = All of US


2 posted on 09/24/2013 6:03:21 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: servo1969

The Democrats are shutting down government. That’s the message you will never hear from ANY news source including the two-faced Roger Ailes’ employees at Fox.


3 posted on 09/24/2013 6:04:27 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood; All

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4 posted on 09/24/2013 6:04:35 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: servo1969

“Reid is so concerned for my healthcare and he doesn’t even know me!” This is the drivel that came out of my brother in laws pie hole. There are people that actually believe this!


5 posted on 09/24/2013 6:07:46 AM PDT by albie
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To: servo1969

Just try to pay for it without the House. There’s this constitution thing that still hasn’t been completely torn up.


6 posted on 09/24/2013 6:09:46 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: muir_redwoods

If you listened carefully to Harry Reid’s comments. before he caught himself he said tat “Obama, was the law of the land’.


7 posted on 09/24/2013 6:14:05 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Senators of the 113th Congress

8 posted on 09/24/2013 6:19:04 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: massgopguy
“Obamacare is the law of the land”

So was the Fugitive Slave Act

Things change.

9 posted on 09/24/2013 6:20:14 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

LOL i don’t think you will find anything nast enough to represent Pelousy in the LOTR’s trilogy (or quadrilogy now). Maybe In the Wizard of Oz...: )


10 posted on 09/24/2013 6:20:39 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: albie

> “Reid is so concerned for my healthcare and he doesn’t even know me!” This is the drivel that came out of my brother in laws pie hole. There are people that actually believe this!

Did he say it with a beer or joint in his hand at the time. Seems to be the norm for those types...


11 posted on 09/24/2013 6:22:52 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: servo1969

> “We’re not going to bow to tea party anarchists who deny that Obamacare is the law,” he added

Hey Henry, you’re the one who wants to impose socialist policies that strip away our 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendment right, side with the guys that spy on us and all of our communications and the homosexuals who want to sleep in tents with our children, supports a President who won’t show his birth certificate or credentials that supports terrorists and puts them in office at the White House, imposes healthcare that may require the implantation of a biometric identification chip into our bodies that may possibly have tracking capabilities wex’re not aware to recieve healthcare which we will be forced to pay for or be penalized...

AND YOU DARE CALL US THE ANARCHISTS! YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!


12 posted on 09/24/2013 6:28:03 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: servo1969

Kind of like the budget was for 4yrs. Some things never change in harry land


13 posted on 09/24/2013 6:29:20 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: servo1969

You will be sucking on satan harry... he has a special spot for you... in between saddam and ted kennedy.

LLS


14 posted on 09/24/2013 6:29:21 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: jsanders2001

Oh yes there is. She is the giant spider Shelob....


15 posted on 09/24/2013 6:33:31 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: servo1969

Dirty Harry, Obamacare is dead on arrival with me.

You and yours will never make me.

Ever.


16 posted on 09/24/2013 6:34:52 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: servo1969

Shut it down.

In fact, shut it down, burn the building down, and salt the earth where it was so nothing so Evil could ever take root there again.

Hang these traitors.


17 posted on 09/24/2013 6:40:01 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: servo1969

Harry is fully willing to own this. He’s proven the corrupt mob unions in Vegas can keep him in office no matter what.


18 posted on 09/24/2013 6:40:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: servo1969

As is your revision in the House comrade.

Pray America is Waking Up


19 posted on 09/24/2013 6:41:19 AM PDT by bray (Coming soon: The Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: jsanders2001

Mouth of Sauron... near the end of Return of the King at the gate of Mordor...


20 posted on 09/24/2013 6:50:29 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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