———Killing obamacare should be a no brainer.-——
Killing Obamacare is not really the issue. How to kill Obamacare is the issue.
Given the current balance of power, there is no effective method for doing so. There is simply not the political power to do so. I understand and am somewhat sympathetic to the argument that the Congress has the purse string power and can take away the money. Theoretically yes. Realistically no. again, There is not the political power to kill Obacare.
Even if the Senate passes the CR minus Obama care money, the President will certainly veto the bill. There is not the votes in the Senate to pass it any way.
There is no difference in the funding bill and the 38 or 39 House bills repealing the act. The Senate ignored them.
The same will be true of the funding curtailment except that everything will cease. The Democrats will never give in, they have the power.
So long as Obama is President, Obamacare is the law of the land. There will never be a veto proof majority.
The only solution is massive bureaucratic failure that induces the population to burn Washington if it the law
not killed. That may happen. The IRS scandal and the Bengazi scandal are far from over.
All that is more likely than winning by the defunding process.
Once more...... Conservatives lack the raw political power required to force the issue
Don’t try to talk sense around here. They think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
Force the issue? Pass the pared down budget and say ‘there you go. That’s our BARE min.’ The DEMS want to close it down, lay it at their feet w/ DAILY reports (hell, HOURLY).
Who am I kidding. This is the same gaggle of feckless jackasses that can’t pass the bills REQUIRED of them before Sept. (you know, actually doing their JOB).