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House conservatives: GOP leadership killed measure to defund Obamacare
http://washingtonexaminer.com ^ | march 10, 2013 | Byron York

Posted on 03/12/2013 2:53:07 AM PDT by lowbridge

As Republican senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and James Inhofe prepare to introduce a measure to defund Obamacare — and threaten to hold up a continuing resolution to fund the U.S. government if the measure is not given a vote — some conservatives are unhappy that the House, controlled by Republicans, did not do the same thing.

It wasn’t for lack of effort, at least on the part of some conservative Republicans. As the House prepared to consider its own version of the continuing resolution last week — it ultimately passed 267 to 151 — more than two dozen conservative GOP lawmakers signed on to an amendment that would have defunded Obamacare. They submitted the amendment and hoped it would receive a vote but were stymied when the House leadership declared that no amendments would be allowed.

“If that amendment had gone to the floor, far and above a majority of the conference would have voted for it,” said Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon, one of the supporters, in an interview Saturday. “I think everyone in the conference would have voted for it,” added Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis, another supporter.

Nevertheless, the Republican leadership did not allow the amendment to be considered. And that, Salmon, DeSantis, and other conservative Republicans believe, is a measure of the leadership’s uneasiness with continuing the legislative fight against Obamacare. Some Republicans — lawmakers who might have felt pressure to vote to defund Obamacare — believe privately that the fight is essentially over, and that the GOP should come to terms with the reality of national health care.

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KEYWORDS: healthcare; obamacare
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1 posted on 03/12/2013 2:53:07 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

P**sies!!!!! Fire them all then.


2 posted on 03/12/2013 2:58:13 AM PDT by dubyajam (t "Life is Hard ... It's Even Harder When you're Stupid" --- John Wayne)
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To: lowbridge

....before long, they will start to blame YOU, the American citizen for not stopping them


3 posted on 03/12/2013 3:06:20 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: lowbridge

Republicanleadership? Boehner...and who else?


4 posted on 03/12/2013 3:09:18 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Doogle

>> ....before long, they will start to blame YOU, the American citizen for not stopping them

bump


5 posted on 03/12/2013 3:10:11 AM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: Doogle
They certainly blame me for the fact that Romney was a terrible candidate and the fact that he failed to convince people to vote for him. In fact, I did vote for him -- but it's still very much my fault that Obama got re-elected. [???]

All I can say is: I have no plans to support the GOP in any future election. This country needs a new opposition party and the Democrats will not be stopped until we have such a new opposition party. I will do my part by trying to kill the GOP as soon as possible.

6 posted on 03/12/2013 3:16:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nobody needs to try to “kill” the GOP, they have done that all by themselves.

Soon, very soon we are hoping to see a new leader or two step up and “dethrown” those clowns once known ad “conservatives”. Perhaps when that happens (and there are signs it is happening), we can all make our shift to a party we MIGHT trust and actually represent “We, Te People”.


7 posted on 03/12/2013 3:28:07 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: lowbridge
I want the names of "the Republican leadership did not allow the amendment to be considered. "
Here's the Republicans Leadership Internet Page.
Click on the links to tell them what you think!
8 posted on 03/12/2013 3:28:51 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: lowbridge

Cowards! Despicable, belly crawling, dung heap cowards!


9 posted on 03/12/2013 3:31:34 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The biggest risk in letting the government decide where you spend your first dollar of income is that someday ~ probably soon ~ they'll decide they need for you to spend that money doing something else ~ then you won't have medical care available. There will be nothing you can do about it either.

Democrats are generally incapable of following that logic ~ every morning is a whole new adventure ~

10 posted on 03/12/2013 3:36:28 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: lowbridge
Some Republicans — lawmakers who might have felt pressure to vote to defund Obamacare — believe privately that the fight is essentially over, and that the GOP should come to terms with the reality of national health care.


11 posted on 03/12/2013 3:36:33 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: ClearCase_guy

This country needs a new opposition party

There’s the essence of our problem. We have no opposition party. Both parties are for big government, crony capitalism, and globalism. The only difference is who get’s the loot.


12 posted on 03/12/2013 3:37:31 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: who knows what evil?

McCarthy, Cantor, and their committee chairmen toadies.


13 posted on 03/12/2013 3:38:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: lowbridge

We are being led into the cattle cars by the people we elected. Or DID we?


14 posted on 03/12/2013 3:39:13 AM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: lowbridge

Some Republicans — lawmakers who might have felt pressure to vote to defund Obamacare — believe privately that the fight is essentially over, and that the GOP should come to terms with the reality of national health care.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

These are NOT Republicans. They are RINO progressives whose big government, anti constitutional vaues make them traitors to the People.

They are essentially traitors.The fight will never be over until Obamacare is repealed completely.


15 posted on 03/12/2013 3:50:13 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: lowbridge

“Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.”
Charley Reese


16 posted on 03/12/2013 3:51:26 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: lowbridge

Follow the money. The GOPe killed the bill in the House because of lobbying. Find out who benefits and find out with whom they met.. It’s time to purge and sanitize the den of iniquity.


17 posted on 03/12/2013 3:55:09 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: lowbridge

Membership in the Republican Party does not make you a Constitutional Conservative.


18 posted on 03/12/2013 4:05:29 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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To: Yosemitest

They are all smiling. What are they smiling about?


19 posted on 03/12/2013 4:15:44 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: lowbridge

Down with the Whigs! TEA Party today; Freedom forever.


20 posted on 03/12/2013 4:16:58 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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