Posted on 09/18/2013 8:16:09 AM PDT by xzins
There’s a rumor starting to firm into truth that the House Republican leadership isn’t going to fulfill its constitutional role to stand and fight to defund Obamacare.
It now looks like the preferred alternative of the GOP establishment is to look to the Democrats for the votes to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government and avoid any possibility of a government shutdown.
Of course the House Republican leadership denies this.
They claim the leadership is officially undecided. Their spokesmen have been very careful to tell everyone in the conservative media that, “No decisions have been made, or will be made, until House Republican members meet and talk” at their Wednesday House Republican Conference meeting today.
Here’s the scenario as the House leadership wishes it to unfold; the House will soon vote on a continuing resolution that simultaneously funds the federal government and defunds Obamacare. Most likely this will be “The Stability, Security and Fairness Resolution” (H.J.Res. 62) that defunds Obamacare while funding the rest of the government at sequestration levels sponsored by Congressman Tom Graves.
This makes it look like Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor deferred to the wishes of House conservatives and the demands of the conservative grassroots.
This will look like a conservative victory, at least in the sense that conservatives got Boehner to give the defunding effort a straight up or down vote.
But then here’s what happens once the House passes a “defund CR,” and sends it to the Senate to see what Senator Ted Cruz and his allies can do.
It will take every Republican in the Senate to vote for the CR, plus some Democrats, to pass it without Obamacare funding in it.
And many of the Senate’s establishment Republicans have already said they won’t stand and fight for a CR that defunds Obamacare if it risks shutting down the government.
And of course Obama has threatened to veto such a bill if it did pass.
When the “defund CR” fails in the Senate, as it is likely to, is when the real test of Republican mettle in this fight begins – because that’s when the threat of a government shutdown becomes real.
As Robert Costa writing for National Review Online put it, “…if Cruz and company can’t round up the votes, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejects the legislation, the House leadership will likely ask Republicans to turn their focus to the debt limit, avert a shutdown, and pass a revised CR — a stopgap spending bill that doesn’t defund Obamacare.”
After the CR fails the Senate, the Pelosi/Boehner plan is to pass a new CR with ObamaCare included.
They have passed that plan on to the media who have already begun yammering about Republicans shutting down the government....with even Brit Hume joining the chorus.
If the defund Obamacare rinos pass the lie and allow it to stand for the year, than why would any conservative trust the stupid rinos to protect America from the communist democrats?
The best way to fix a broken system is to SHUT IT DOWN, and THEN fix it.
Newt SHUT DOWN the US Federal Government in the 1990’s and it WORKED!
The Liberal Agenda Media and the Democrats boo-hooed to this day, but Newt achieved success.
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The only way to force a spoiled brat to behave is to punish, punish, punish.
The worst punishment that a Democrat, or RINO can imagine is to take away their ability to spend our tax dollars.
The best way to do that is to shutdown the non-essental parts of the US Federal Government, starting with mothballing Air Force One.
Can the Repubs pass a CR that 1/4 or 1/2 funds O-care or funds it for a short time? IOW, if we cannot block the entire implementation, can we bring this to a head every month or slow down the implementation?
I think a CR can be for any length of time that is agreed upon....a month, a quarter, a year...
This article suggests that Boehner will turn to Pelosi for democrat votes the next time around. He’ll say that he proved his point that “republicans get the blame”, and so he’ll not use the Hastert rule the 2nd time around.
I can't remember, but what was the DemoMarxist response to that move in the 90's?
“Zipper-Boy” Clinton magically began to take credit for balancing the US Federal Budget, FOR YEARS!
The part of that the Gingrich and Clinton won't talk about is that they passed a balanced budget then blew right by it with supplimental spending bills. They were also sucking off a nice Social Security surplus at the time.
I don’t agree. Boener et al are against Obamacare, but have a different strategy — leave it alone for now in order to use its unpopularity to take over the Senate, and then kill it.
Whether this is a better strategy than defunding part of it up front, or vice versa, is debatable.
Boehner will fold up like a plastic lawn chair.
Why not have the true Republicans request a BINDING, updated, “Federal Financial Impact Statement” for 2012-2013 for Obama”care?”
It should take a month or two to complete, allow for a vote to delay Obama”care” for a year, and then show the great financial harm to our Economy that the Statement’s numbers will document.
Wharton, Stanford, Michigan and Princeton could also file their independent Financial Impact Statements to compare to the Office of Budget and the Congressional Budget Office Financial Impact Statements.
As B. Hussein is fond of saying: “We need to get all the facts first.”
I wish I could say your statement is true, but it isn't.
The "government shutdown" gimmick was all Hillary and Tom Daschle, and it worked. It allowed The Clinton Media (TM) to scream all the way to re-election of The Quisling Felon in 1996.
So much of what they said was lies, it has to challenge the old Lie High-Water Mark of the 1840 and 1832 elections.
Two Reagan Democrats I knew, dependent on Social Security and government jobs, threw down their principles and ran when Hillary yanked their chain. To this day they deny hotly that they voted for Reagan and proclaim that they're loyal liberals going all the way back to the 1960's -- like any honest person would be. <barf alert>
It’s Conservative HQ not IQ.
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