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GRAVES PLAN DELAYS AND DEFUNDS OBAMACARE
Human Events (excerpt - click for article) ^ | Sept 16, 2013 | By: John Hayward

Posted on 09/16/2013 2:50:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) made his bid to stop the ObamaCare train wreck by introducing the Stability, Security, and Fairness Resolution, which essentially funds every part of the government except ObamaCare for the coming year. The gigantic federal government is now funded by an endless string of emergency spending resolutions, a stack of fiscal Band-Aids high enough to reach the Moon. Rep. Graves is simply proposing to leave ObamaCare out of this year’s check-writing frenzy, which seems only fair, since President Obama already broke the law to delay the crucial employer mandate past the 2014 elections. Why not put the whole thing on ice until the employer mandate goes into effect?

“This plan is straightforward,” said Graves. ”We will achieve long-term stability by funding the government for the next fiscal year. Additionally, the resolution includes the three House-passed appropriations bills that affect our national security and our veterans. Our troops, their families and our veterans should not have their priorities put on hold. Finally, our plan will achieve fairness for every American by fully delaying and defunding Obamacare until 2015. This approach builds upon the Obama Administration’s policy of delaying portions of Obamacare and relieves taxpayers of the burden of funding a program that is not being implemented.”

Democrats, of course, not only want to pour gallons of red ink down the ObamaCare hole, they want to pretend sequestration and that silly Budget Control Act of 2011 never happened. Graves and his 42 co-sponsors are hoping to flip the usual “government shutdown” narrative on its head by putting a year’s worth of government funding on the table and daring the Democrats to shut down the government to protect ObamaCare, which hasn’t been looking any more popular in the latest round of polls. If the Republicans can work the constant drumbeat of horror stories about ObamaCare into a consistent narrative of failed government hubris that no fiscally responsible representative would vote to waste taxpayer money on, it will be harder for Democrats in the media to paint the Republicans as the ones eager to force a shutdown.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cruz; defund; graves; obamacare; teaparty; teapartyrebellion
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1 posted on 09/16/2013 2:50:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

if obama can decide which parts of the law are implemented and which aren’t, a citizen can decide which parts of the law to ignore.


2 posted on 09/16/2013 2:54:51 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Jim Robinson
I like the Fairness part.
That really sticks it back to them.
3 posted on 09/16/2013 2:59:18 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Jim Robinson
...flip the usual “government shutdown” narrative on its head by putting a year’s worth of government funding on the table and daring the Democrats to shut down the government to protect ObamaCare...

The real story!

Dems and the "news" media will spin, spin, spin that it's the Repubs shutting down the gub'mint, when in reality it will be the Zero King if he doesn't sign the bill. The "news" media, of course, will spin it as the Repubs sent him a bill he couldn't sign.

4 posted on 09/16/2013 3:00:11 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Jim Robinson

Whatever, Jim...throw sand in the gears...defund, do everything legally possible to stop this disgusting, vile law from taking away more freedom.

The thing has already destroyed job creation, I am sure it will do be even more disastrous for health care.


5 posted on 09/16/2013 3:03:57 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Jim Robinson

Whatever, Jim...throw sand in the gears...defund, do everything legally possible to stop this disgusting, vile law from taking away more freedom.

The thing has already destroyed job creation, I am sure it will do be even more disastrous for health care.


6 posted on 09/16/2013 3:04:00 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: jeffc

this makes sense....that way the ball is in the Demo’s court!!!!!


7 posted on 09/16/2013 3:08:55 PM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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Graves for Speaker!


8 posted on 09/16/2013 3:18:19 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Jim Robinson

“... pour gallons of red ink down the Obamacare hole”, and gallons of black ink will be poured out in the media against our guys fighting socialism/Marxism.

Fight this, we must, exhausted or not.


9 posted on 09/16/2013 3:31:38 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Jim Robinson

As Ted Cruz has said, “Let’s see if Obama is willing to shut down the government to fund Obamacare.”

Perfection in a nutshell.


10 posted on 09/16/2013 3:33:10 PM PDT by upchuck (The nobama regime: a string of omnishambles that stretches, seemingly, to infinity.)
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To: Jim Robinson

This is good political strategy. We need to bury the Democratic Party, but in a slow, gentle way. Nobody wants a revolution, but after we take over Congress and we get the economy going in 2015 we can hold it for decades.


11 posted on 09/16/2013 3:36:37 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Jim Robinson

Why not go for the entire enchilada and abolish some departments, agencies, and commissions while he’s at it?


12 posted on 09/16/2013 3:38:18 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: Jim Robinson

At least....this will out the GOP members who are ObamaCare supporters. If this is not taken up to vote...then all GOP leadership supports ObamaCare


13 posted on 09/16/2013 3:57:31 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (A person who does not want to tariff Communist Chinese goods has no problem with taxing you)
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To: All

Am I the only one getting page loading errors? I see a lot more double posts so I assume the glitch is back.


14 posted on 09/16/2013 4:06:22 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I love it when spell check highlights every single word.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Great!

Let’s go with it.


15 posted on 09/16/2013 4:10:28 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Pan_Yan

It’s back!


16 posted on 09/16/2013 4:12:09 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: VerySadAmerican

I for one am ignoring ALL of them. They can all go to hell.

If they want to challenge me, darken my doorstep. My dog loves fresh meat.


17 posted on 09/16/2013 4:25:30 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: jeffc
By Boehner worrying about political consequences and never standing up for principle, nobody respects conservative issues. Just defund the damn thing; the HOR has already voted against it over 40 times, and Obama just keeps implementing the parts of it he feels like implementing.

There is no compromise with Obama. We've tried it the RINO way and it's a joke. It's time for the RINOs to listen to the constitutional conservatives who actually give a damn about the US!

grrr...end of rant

18 posted on 09/16/2013 4:30:06 PM PDT by grania
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To: jeffc
By Boehner worrying about political consequences and never standing up for principle, nobody respects conservative issues. Just defund the damn thing; the HOR has already voted against it over 40 times, and Obama just keeps implementing the parts of it he feels like implementing.

There is no compromise with Obama. We've tried it the RINO way and it's a joke. It's time for the RINOs to listen to the constitutional conservatives who actually give a damn about the US!

grrr...end of rant

19 posted on 09/16/2013 4:30:13 PM PDT by grania
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To: Jim Robinson

Even if the entire congress voted for this, Obama would veto it. Then hopefully enough of them would have enough stomach to over ride the stinking veto.


20 posted on 09/16/2013 5:24:19 PM PDT by RetiredArmy ("As in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of Man." Come Quickly LORD Jesus!)
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