Dunno if this is true or not, but slowing it down, making Obamacare anything BUT a done deal, will keep it foremost as an issue in the 2014 campaign and election, which should be good for our side. The more it seems like a done deal, the more we seem like sore losers, but as long as it’s an open wound and ongoing source of frustration, people are going to continue to turn against those who refuse to repeal or change it.
The article seems to be written to scam readers with a misleading headline and misdirection. I think we all know a government shutdown doesn’t stop Obamacare. That’s why we’re trying to DEFUND Obamacare. And the article says at the bottom, DEFUNDING would work. No one on our side EVER claimed a government shutdown alone stops Obamacare. That’s utter BS for the article to imply... Below they explain how defunding it does work...
Defunding the 3-year-old health care law and thus preventing its full implementation, as the House has voted to do, would be a different story.
“If you take away the money, the rest of the law isn’t going to work,” said Paul Van de Water, a former top official of the Congressional Budget Office, currently with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which advocates for the poor. Without subsidies to help the uninsured, the law’s requirement that virtually all Americans get coverage would be unreasonable.
OK....so here is an idea (and I admit it may be a bad one...but I'm just throwing stuff out there):
What if the GOP were to put forth a bill which actually implemented Obamacare, and funded it, but it restricted the funding to that which was promised?
In other words: OK dems....we will fund it...for what you promised us it would cost.
How could they argue against that?
I’m very tired of the so called Republicans and Democrats! I say it’s time to shut down all government benefits and then re-allocate them on a REAL need basis. Wow!, would that not be a deal-breaker for the Democrats! Would that not be a real shame...heh. Just how many could re-apply for benefits and actually get them these days!
Government bankruptcy is at hand folks!!
Yes, there are real needs, but I’d guess that it would be about 1/5th of the actual cost that is being spent today.
Until both parties get together and actually do something about it, we will continue to slide into bankruptcy.
I'd suggest AF1 and gov't golf courses first.
Does everyone know this?
So delay it for a year. /s
Allow the Kenyan Kronies to further it deeper. Killing off even more private insurers.
The GOP just cannot throw enough Darwin quicksand upon itself fast enough to better the nation, and knock themselves off at the same time.
Delaying socialism is appeasement, and that really sucks.
Idf the House eliminates all funding for Abamacare and obama proceeds he should be tried for treason, convicted and executed!!
Ricardo obviously doesn’t understand what “government shutdown” means. He thinks when it does, it just keeps right on going. English as a second language. Oh well.
I think it’s fair to say that Obamacare is a done deal. There’s no practical way to stop it.
The tipping point has passed, people. The takers are now over 51%. It’s over. The only way out now, is through... Just like they teach you in infantry school. The only way out of an ambush is through it. Into it.
The way out will be a few generations from now. After the crash. Far after the crash.
If that's the case, then the government wasn't shut down, was it?
Funny how the Secure Fence Act of 2007 isn’t among the “mandatory” programs that “must” be funded.
Shut it down and keep the funds away from Obamacare.
This is nonsense. If the ACA included such a provision, it was only because Congress wrote that language, and the U.S. House can remove such language.
If the debt limit isn't raised, he can't do anything - perhaps that's why he and the Dims are 'insisting" on a separate and "clean" debt bill.
BI is Dem party propaganda site .
So why is this crap posted ?
the BI owner is a radical leftist and this writer is a well documented obamabot.
so are these lies spread here ?