Posted on 11/22/2011 5:09:20 AM PST by EternalVigilance
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) says that Congress is not going to cut off funding for Obamacare or Planned Parenthood because House Republican leadership is afraid of the threat of a showdown with Senate Democrats and the president – they’re afraid that Republicans would be blamed for a government shutdown.
King said the House GOP leadership, if asked, would say that they did pass a repeal of Obamacare – and would blame the Senate, which didn’t take up the measure.
But King also said House Republicans “didn’t use the leverage that we should have used.”
“We didn’t bring up the maximum leverage because the decision was made by leadership to avoid the prospect of a showdown with the president or Harry Reid that could result in a potential shutdown of government,” King told CNSNews.com in an interview.
“And that rationale – and it wasn’t my rationale – is what brings us to this point -- that we’re still funding Obamacare to the tune of $23.6 billion dollars in the first two years, we’re trying to find $1.2 trillion in cuts, there’s $1.379 trillion in cuts that are there automatically if we just cut off the existing programs within Obamacare and resolve the problem with the Super-committee,” he said.
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Republicans = Afraid
More backstabbing by the boehner cabal. They all need to go next year. Throw the bums out.
Cowards, all of them.
So let me see, rather than doing the right thing, they put their career jobs ahead of their sworn duty.
They win back the House - just to repeal Commiecare™ - and now they can’t do it? Replacements are needed.
Rino’s are obsessed by fear.
Conservatives are common sense oriented, work hard, fight hard and are FEARLESS.
Rino’s need to hunted down, destroyed and driven into extinction.
Rep. King is really one of our best.
Danged few of those in the Congress, sadly.
I’m having even more doubts that we are a center-right nation any more... seems more like center left. Cuts are all well and fine with the American people as long as it’s somebody else’s rice bowl.
All you have to do is drag the idea of cutting Medicare through Free Republic, to get a whole bunch of "conservatives" to start wailing about how they paid for it and how the Government promised them....
And if that's what Freepers think, you can imagine how the sheeple would react.
video of so called conservative voting with the democrats...
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/03/06/ryan-voted-by-mistake-for-unio
Hang in there—next time we will have enough Tea Party congressmen to boot out the RINO leadership. If Bonner survives the election, we’ll let him chair the “Committee To Determine What Ply Toilet Paper To Use In The Capital Building Toilets.”
Republicans = love ObamaCare
Unless we vote in Bachmann or Paul - Obamacare is here to stay.
Oh don't worry by next year right before the election Boehner will do something good and suddenly some here will be cheerleading him. It happens all the time. One minute he is a villain and the next a hero. I do think he needs to get rid of that planned parenthood money out of Obamacare immediately though.
I knew that we were toast the first time I saw boehner’s classic establishment rino face.
Unless we vote in Bachmann or Paul - Obamacare is here to stay.
I agree. Although Paul is too radical. Add Santorum and Cain to the list and I fully agree. Those three will abolish Obamacare especially Bachmann! It is her passion to rid us of that mess. That is one reason I am surprised that she is not doing better. Who cares that she tells it like it is with the other candidates.
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