I don’t think that Dems in the U.S. Senate have the guts to oppose a one-year delay on the individual mandate being implemented, and oppose ALL federal employess being required to go onto ObamaCare.
If those two are tied to the CR in the next day or two, Dems will blink.
Is this a joke? When has the house leadership demonstrated a spine unless we beat it into them. Much less a plan. Past time far a constitutional convention to eviscerate their power over us.
I would add one more — if the Democrats won’t go for that, remove the authority of the ACA law which allows HHS to grant waivers, and eliminate all existing waivers except for the religeous exemptions, and expand the religeous exemptions.
Sometimes the best way to get rid of a law is to make people live with it.
When, predictably, the Senate returns the bill amended to provide the funds for Obozocare, the House should pass a new budget, removing all funding for Obozocare and refusing to fund some favorite Demonrat pork barrel (EPA?, Energy Departmenh? Edumakashun Department? Pick your poison). Make a solemn vow to significantly cut further in response to each act of insolence by the Senate and/or by Obozo in refusing to agree to a House budget.
Each and every time the Senate restores funding for ANYTHING defunded by the House OR Obozo vetoes a House budget, up the ante and remove another $50 billion in rank leftist waste (again and again and again and...) until Obozo and Reid surrender unconditionally. Let the MSM whine all they want but keep on course.
Also vote to repeal the automatic escalator in federal spending that adds alleged inflation or some such to last year's budget numbers. That provision of federal law has been with us for about 40 years now and is the major reason for our hideous levels of federal spending. Condition ANY budget's passage on repeal of that provision.
Money bills MUST start in the House. 800,000 fedgov "workers" (damn few of whom are even nominal Republicans much less conservative) depend absoklutely on that budget for their daily dole. Convince them that the GOP is serious for a change and they will force the Demonrats to surrender.
Other principles of such war against Obozo and his Congressional and Senatorial and media handmaidens should include: Absolute guarantees of timely conventional military pay and facilitation of military voting, border security, an end to sequester of military spending ONLY, and mnore conservative wish list items.
"Republican" dissenting Senators or House members: We're making a list and taking names. This means: Light Loafers Graham, John Cornyn; LAMAR!!! Alexander, Bob Corker, Richard Burr, John McLame, Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, Peter King ("R"-NY), etc.