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Sharpton Battles Tea Party Head Over Obamacare, Shutdown: ‘You Lost, It’s The Law!’
mediaite.com ^ | September 20, 2013 | Josh Feldman

Posted on 09/20/2013 8:30:18 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

For the second time in two days, Al Sharpton battled a conservative on Obamacare and the threat of a government shutdown. Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer argued that Democrats are the ones who want to shut the government down, but Sharpton didn’t buy it, saying at some point, conservatives need to accept Obamacare is the law of the land and stop trying to take it down.

Kremer argued that even Democrats have said the health care law is “not ready for primetime,” so the goal right now is just to delay. Sharpton went through all the steps of the law being upheld, from Congress approving it to the Supreme Court upholding it to Mitt Romney losing on a platform of repealing it, concluding, “You lost, it’s the law!”

Kremer shot back that Democrats used a “parliamentary trick” to pass it in the first place, while Sharpton brought up all the Republicans who are starting to sour on the defunding idea. Kremer was a lot more bullish, saying the very fact House leadership brought it to the floor is a victory, and citing several red-state Senate Democrats she believes might end up joining the GOP.

Towards the end of the debate, Sharpton pressed Kremer to say that if the Senate rejects the House bill, Congress can go ahead and fund the government without the Obamacare defunding provision. Kremer hedged, insisting the Republicans have no interest in shutting down the government.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: obamacare; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: Tailgunner Joe

There IS no ‘Head’ or leader, or whatever in the TEA party... THAT is what made it so powerful.


41 posted on 09/21/2013 6:02:04 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: re_nortex

He is a boy to me. Brain of a child, body of a ..... well- I calls them like I see them. :)


42 posted on 09/21/2013 6:10:36 AM PDT by Truth2012
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To: Truth2012

The only interaction with race-baiter not-so-sharpton should be to ask him “why aren’t you in prison?”


43 posted on 09/21/2013 6:23:31 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Little Pig
Little Pig :" The ACA bill started in the House, as a measure dealing with military base housing funding.
When it reached the senate, it was eviscerated completely, becoming a “shell bill”, which was then larded down with the ACA language.
So technically, it did originate in the house as a funding bill and is therefore legal even though the language was changed completely."

So really what you are saying is that the original bill was changed in its entirety , and then larded down with the ACA, right ?
My question : How is this Obmacare/ACA bill then not a "BAIT AND SWITCH " ploy by the Senate ?
My Question : Why are we playing "Three-Card Monte " with a form of , what the FED now considers, taxation ?

44 posted on 09/21/2013 7:05:03 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Sharpton went through all the steps of the law being upheld, from Congress approving it to the Supreme Court upholding it to Mitt Romney losing on a platform of repealing it, concluding, “You lost, it’s the law!”

So was slavery, bitch. Still want that? Same thing.

45 posted on 09/21/2013 7:14:43 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

Oh, and in case you forget, Republicans freed people from slavery then, and they can do it now with obamascare.


46 posted on 09/21/2013 7:27:45 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

Republicans freed blacks from the cotton plantation and Republicans, if they do what is right now, can free Americans from the insurance company plantation.


47 posted on 09/21/2013 7:29:13 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Laws change every day.


48 posted on 09/21/2013 7:29:59 AM PDT by Vision (Trayvon Martin illustrates the bankruptcy of the modern civil rights movement.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Slavery was once the Law of the Land.
Republicans got rid of that law, too.
As a comedy gold moron once said to a national televised audience "Resist We Much"!
49 posted on 09/21/2013 8:27:53 AM PDT by Amagi (God Save the Republic.)
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Thanks Tailgunner Joe.
50 posted on 09/21/2013 4:48:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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