Posted on 09/27/2013 11:54:54 AM PDT by Nickname
Today, I proudly voted to Defund Obamacare, and I am proud that every Senate Republican has united in support of the House-passed Defund Obamacare provision.
I only wish that more Senate Democrats, many of whom were responsible for Obamacares passage into law, would have voted with us. (NOTE: The amendment to remove the Defund Obamacare provision, which passed the House, was defeated by the Democrat-controlled Senate by a straight party-line vote of 44-54.)
With Democrats in control of the Senate, we needed Democrats to join with the American people who want Obamacare stopped in its tracks. Based upon the Democrats unanimous votes in support of funding Obamacare, they must not have gotten the message.
I fought and voted against Obamacare in 2010. Since then, I have tried to stop the law's implementation any way I can:
* Supported ending the special exemption for Congress from Obamacare; * Supported ending the special exemption for President Obama from Obamacare; * Authored legislation to allow states to opt-out of Obamacare; * Cosponsored legislation to repeal Obamacare; * Cosponsored legislation to prohibit the funding of Obamacare; * Cosponsored legislation which defunds the IRS' implementation of Obamacare; * Cosponsored a bill to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare; * Sent a letter with my Republican colleagues requesting the Obama Administration grant relief to all Americans by delaying implementation of Obamacare so Congress can adopt common-sense reforms; and * Offered an amendment to defund implementation of the individual and employer mandates required under Obamacare.
Obamacare is, has been, and will remain a financial disaster for our nation.
You voted for the bill on the only vote that counted, Linda.
Maybe, but there are a lot of negative comments on his FB page now responding to his disingenuous statement.
Because the GOPe agreed to roll over and show the bellies before they got one concession out of Reid. Not even a crumb.
This is NOT going to help your already losing and pathetic reelection campaign.
The strategy was that they would refuse cloture until Reid promised not to strip the defunding language from the bill.
He’s a liar. He knew the Senate asswipes would put funding back into the bill after it passed. I consider it defunded since they scammed it. Fake and phony vote.
Ted Cruz spent 21 hours on his feet explaining this to you. Weren't you listening? Or did you, like Graham, sleep through the whole speech?
I went to look at the comments. LOL He’s getting hammered.
Now they can strip out the ACA defunding part of the CR and pass it with 51 votes which the Dems have.
What I meant is if he had voted NO on cloture in the first place along with all Republicans in the Senate it wouldn’t have come to the vote he can NOW claim he cast against obamacare. Any vote these guys cast after the cloture vote is meaningless- to me.
You and me both. I am ready to make them miserable at the very least and trounce them at the very most. Cruz will be on Hannity in a few mins right when Obama is making a statement on tv.
Go to his FB page: page after page of comments all saying he is a liar etc. Reads just like here on FR!
Thank you for the list.
Bkmk.
In WW2, the French shaved the heads of those women that collaborated with the Nazi’s.
From Lee Bright’s FB page.
Senator Lee Bright
In spite of Graham voting to allow Obamacare to move forward today, he is doing his best to spin the story and trick voters into thinking the opposite. Just to be clear, voting “YES” on cloture = voting “YES” on Obamacare.
Don’t let Graham get away with this! Please support us today: https://rally.org/electleebright
FU fag boy... you are a traitor and I am going to give Bright the maximum allowed just to send your std infected bunghole into retirement.
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