Posted on 09/26/2013 12:45:56 PM PDT by xzins
Speaker John Boehner said Thursday the GOP-controlled House will not accept a temporary spending bill from the Democratic Senate if it is shorn clean of a tea party plan to "defund Obamacare."
"I don't see that happening," Boehner told reporters.
At the same time, the Ohio Republican said House GOP leaders would unveil legislation to lift the government's borrowing cap, but only if the new health care law is delayed for a year. He defended that measure's relatively modest spending cuts even as some rank-and-file conservatives pressed for more.
"It does not cut spending significantly. It does not fix the problem," Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said of the debt ceiling package. He said he was undecided about whether to support it. "We need to significantly cut federal government spending, or long-term have a balanced budget constitutional amendment," he said.
Obamacare: Massive New Rules Revealed for 2013
Pressure is building on fractious House Republicans as a partial government shutdown looms at midnight Monday if a bitterly-divided Congress can't send a temporary spending bill to President Barack Obama on time.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid immediately rejected Boehner's proposal. Meanwhile, the Senate trudged ahead toward a Friday vote on stripping the defund Obamacare provision from the House-passed stopgap funding bill.
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Once in full effect it will be impossible to repeal. Delay is better than implementation...for the good of our health.
I know I know......but its a good start! Remember two weeks ago????
They are listening folks. It wouldnt have come this far without folks like FReepers.
We called EVERYONE including Santa Claus!
Any delay they pass will be for until after the Nov 2014 elections. I know some people are taking "one-year delay" literally to mean Oct 1, 2014; but none of these guys want the citizenry clued in about the true horrors of ObamaCare until after the mid-terms.
Delay is a stupid idea. People need to suffer before they will want to change it.
(If they had the ability to understand without experiencing it, they would have voted Obama out in 2012.)
Delay is stupid as is any idea that comes to us from the liberals via Boehner like this one
delayed implementation is still delayed implementation.
And for the last few years we’ve been fighting implementation of ObamaCare.
We keep losing sight of the fact that what we want is REPEAL!
Defunding was a “delaying tactic” to eventually buy the time to get to repeal.
Delay is also a delaying tactic.
Anything to prevent implementation, because once a government program has ever been implemented it has been next to impossible to stop it.
So much for your lives, your fortunes and your sacred honor, eh?
Putting it off just delays the pain. Until after the 2014 election, so we can have more ill informed voters re-electing Democrats based on promises.
No thank you. Let's see it.
I know. And anyone that was paying attention could predict it.
But, the kneepad media will only repeat platitudes from Obama and the Democrats, even as more information is coming out.
The disaster will only become obvious and unavoidable when it happens. And the low information voters that believed Obama will finally realized he has been lying to them all along.
When they have to buy insurance or pay the penalty, they will finally understand.
Sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war.
I posted on another thread a few minutes ago, regarding this issue.
I called my congresscritter’s office yesterday and told the young man who answered the phone to ask him to vote against Blackburn’s delay amendment, or get her to drop it altogether.
They should vote on defunding once again, but as a stand-alone bill. Get everyone on record now.
The young man said I was the first to call about the delay tactic coming up and that he would tell DesJarlais what I’d said. He read back what he’d written down during our conversation to make sure he had it correct, which he did.
This may be the route to go since we know Reid is going to put funding back into the current CR. I just don’t know that there’ll be enough votes in the Senate to stop it. grrrrr! So we need to work on the House to stop the delay tactic, which I believe is the wrong way to go. We don’t need to give the dems breathing room next year, and that’s what a delay will do. Like it or not, I have the sinking feeling we’re going to be clobbered with Obamacare. People are going to be hurting and furious and they’ll remember who voted to hit us with it when they go to the voting booth.
bttt
Delay will save Obamacare. We have to defund. If we delay, the administration will be more ready for full implementation and not look stupid and inept like they do now. This will save the DEMS.
He’s working to 2016. The goodies go in effect 1 Oct. Next year we will have to take insurance away from people if we dont delay it.
Trouble is we can’t forget the law is primarily about subsidies and handouts for the “takers.” We don’t talk about that because talking about the mandate and tax sounds more onerous. But once this is implemented, there will be a lot of takers who will be getting free health care, probably many more people that understand they will be now. So once it’s implemented, the election will be another showdown between takers and makers, and we makers don’t have a good track record of winning those.
that’s my take too.
If this is delayed then all this means is that it gives cover to bozo and his regime.
Either defund the damn thing or be honest about it and state how you were not for it but now it’s in then you will just go along with it and don;t want to fight it.
why take the bad parts of it out?
That only gives the socialists cover and makes it look more impressive to the great unwashed masses
I’ll give Boehner some credit. When he’s backed against the wall, he isn’t a total *ss as are Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell.
delay only helps the socialists for 2014.
Boehner plays Major League Pattycake.
Hey, that would be wonderful if those of us who just got dropped are guaranteed to not have any coverage at all for a full year. Way to go, repugs. This all should have been done three years ago.
NYT poll: Practically no one expects Obamacare to go well which is precisely why RINOs reached across the aisle to help their good buddies omit the controversial affordable care act (CACA) from the 2014 election. That'll show Cruze and those damn teabaggers, the RNC establishment muttered.
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