Posted on 10/03/2025 5:24:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Early in former President Barack Obama’s second term, the Republican-controlled House, backed by outside conservative groups and some of the most vocal elements of the Senate GOP minority, sought to defund his signature legislative achievement, using a government shutdown as leverage.
Republicans had campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, from virtually the moment it became law. There was a straight line from what then-Vice President Joe Biden hailed as a “big f***ing deal” and what Obama later described as a “shellacking” in the 2010 midterm elections. Republicans toppled the Democrats’ huge House majority and seized the speaker’s gavel from Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) by gaining 63 seats, mostly by running on a pro-repeal message.
But Obama recovered and was reelected anyway, albeit with a smaller margin of victory than four years earlier. The window for repeal seemed to be closing. But then conservatives on Capitol Hill, and their tea party allies throughout the country, had another idea.
In late September 2013, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spent 21 hours railing against Obamacare on the Senate floor. He had previously identified the urgency of defunding the healthcare law right then and there. And he was going to hold up federal funding, triggering a shutdown, to do it.
“President Obama’s strategy is simple: On Jan. 1, the subsidies kick in,” Cruz warned. “President Obama wants to get as many Americans addicted to the subsidies because he knows that in modern times, no major entitlement has ever been implemented and then unwound.” Cruz was right, but that shutdown lasted 16 days, and Obamacare was still with us.
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Dumbass liberal ragbags can’t come up with any original ideas of their own. They sure are some morons.
When a political party stays in their bubble, they believe their own rhetoric, act on it, and fail.
Tea Party? More like a Fruit Punch Party.
Correct.
That’s right.
and the Tea Party is still correct. the GOPe (and Trump) still must repeal obamacare. in fact, imho, as soon as Trump failed to do that early in the his first term, he was basically done (and i said so on this site at that time); the leftist GOPe had his measure, and they then proceeded to successfully destroy his first term from there. if Trump ever gets control of Congress, i hope an ACA repeal is still in his plan.
as long as that ACA abomination remains in law, our gov’t run healthcare system will never recover.
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