Posted on 09/18/2013 8:38:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Congressional Republicans have battled each other of late over which tack to take in handling the next showdown over the budget. The Tea Party wing of the party has refused to support any budget bill unless it kills ObamaCare, while the more moderate leadership, wary of the political fallout from such an all-or-nothing gamble, has resisted the plan.
It looks like the Tea Party just won round one.
House Republicans will soon stage a vote on a budget bill — known as a continuing resolution (CR) — that both funds the government and defunds the Affordable Care Act, according to National Review's Robert Costa. This means that far-right conservatives "have won a victory, at least in terms of getting the leadership to go along with their strategy," Costa wrote.
House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) spokesman said that "no decisions" have been made regarding the CR vote. But the fact that the bill is even up for consideration underscores how effective the Tea Party has been in bulldozing the rest of the party on such a fraught issue.
Assuming a CR bill defunding ObamaCare passes the House, it would surely die in the Democratic-controlled Senate. And even if it were to somehow pass the upper chamber, it has absolutely zero chance of getting past President Obama's desk.
Washington's fiscal year comes to a close at the end of the month. If there is no deal by then, the government will shut down all nonessential services. While that would be less calamitous than a previously floated idea to tie ObamaCare to the debt ceiling, linking a vote to defund ObamaCare to the budget would nonetheless be a bold line in the sand, drawn at the behest of a small, vocal corner of the party.
So how did we get here?
Sen. Cruz...
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Well we also are dealing with Obama executive orders.
We need the next one in to negate a bunch of those and the one by Clinton disarming our military on bases.
What a mess Obama is making. I have a little guy and really worry what the future in it’s current direction could hold for him.
Obamacare will not continue, not in its present form.
The RINOs will lose the congress if they blow this. The majority of the people want this communist monstrosity defunded, then killed!! Do not fund it!!
OK, we’ll see. Obamacare, though is just a symptom. Hilary and the Democrats have wanted this for half a century or so. We need to kill their entire party politically.
It will if The Republicans fold. In fact, it will get worse. Much worse. Single payer is up next.
I think and hope that we are watching the implosion of a bad idea that started during the French Revolution. Unless we take the Congress and hold it for a generation it will rear up again and again like a hydra.
We have to win and win big in 2014 or this is all a lot of hot air and wasted typing.
If the congress betrays the tea party after this big build up, they will lose in 2014.
What is betrayal? We have the most conservative House in generations. We’re winning Jim. This is liberalisms last gasp unless conservatives withdraw from the election and don’t vote.
For Obama to be reelected he had to use every trick in the book and use the levers of government against us. He’s desperate, keeping him on the ropes through 2016 is the best way.
Keep in mind that we go through this every couple of cycles. Overreach scares the mushy middle.
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