House Republicans pass test vote to defund Obamacare; shutdown edges closer

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[mandaladon]

House Republicans survived a key test vote Thursday on their plan to keep the government running while trying to halt the health care law, defying a veto threat from President Obama and inching closer to a shutdown showdown with Senate Democrats. Top Republicans say their party’s strategy is unlikely to succeed and not worth shutting down the government, but some rank-and-file lawmakers said they have to draw a line now and use the leverage of the spending bill to end the president’s signature achievement.

[Pietro]

"We will never get enough override votes"

Maybe so, but spending must be initiated in the house.

If he vetos it, send it back w/ greater cuts.

It going to take brass balls to get it that far but we've crossed the Rubicon--------------BURN THE SHIPS there's no going back!

[bray]

A vote for Freedom!

Pray America is waking up

[chris37]

So ****in’ what.

[LostInBayport]

Actually, it WILL work, because some D senator has to decide whether he or she is going to impale himself on this or support a guy willing to through anyone and everyone under the bus (except Assad and Putin) to achieve his ends.

Right. This is the fight to pass Obamacare in reverse. Then, it was a fight to get that last vote to push it over the top. Now, it is a fight to get those last votes to push it over the edge to its well-deserved death. The advantage here is that America has had years of studying this diseased law and living with its negative effects. A majority of its people hate the law. The winds are in our favor this time.

Obama could still veto it as we won't have 67 votes in the Senate. But he will own it lock, stock and barrel, and if we retake the Senate in 2014 we can try again. By then things will be bad enough that even lameduckbama's own fellow demonrats will provide a veto-proof majority if they want to keep their jobs.

[dadfly]

for the first time in decades, we take the offensive against the leftists. feels good.

[SeekAndFind]

[Old Sarge]

But I fear I’m excited in the same way those southern gentlemen in the early scenes of "Gone With the Wind" were excited about kicking some yankee butt. :-(

I'm more on the line of "GWTW" when Sherman was shelling Atlanta...

[9YearLurker]

I see where you’re coming from, but a direct fight with the media is always a dicey thing.

[mylife]

Obama just tweeted: “They actually did it.”

[Jane Long]

Who’s the 1 Repubie who voted NO???

[yield 2 the right]

Wait for the back-channeled deal(you know, the usual screw-you), this seems too good too be true.....

[Turbo Pig]

But I suspect our government will be shut down this time. I’m kinda excited about it, actually.

Last time the talk of a shut down rolled around, I was talking to someone who was a contractor with the Feds. he stated that they were planning on furloughing all "non-essential" workers; keeping those that were needed to keep things afloat during the "shutdown". I asked him that if there were people that were non-essential to the running of the government, then why were they on the payroll?

I got kind of a black stare.

[Phillyred]

“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.”
— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 7, clause 1

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 9, clause 7

[jimbo123]

Obama’s exchanges won’t be ready for the October 1st enrollment start date.

Yet he is going to be spending millions of taxpayer dollars on advertising for the exchanges that won’t be working.

The train is coming off the tracks.

[Graewoulf]

Bookmarked.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Obama just tweeted: “They actually did it.”

This could mean that he did not expect them to do it...

[yield 2 the right]

Obama may just be laughing at us, maybe.....something stinks, and since when does Obama plays by the rules.(E.O’s and other ways to skirt the Constitution.)

[LS]

Who cares what Obama is doing. FFS, people, you whine and whine about the GOP having no spine, then when they vote the right way, you claim it’s meaningless cause Obama won’t go along. BIG DEAL. He was NEVER going along. When did ANYONE think Obama would go along? sheesh.

[jimbo123]

Obama is crapping himself because the Federal Obamacare exchanges won’t be ready for the October 1st enrollment start date.

[mylife]

I agree.