Posted on 09/23/2013 7:28:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Another one.
No matter who blinks first, those that blink WILL be smoked out.
The RINO’s...the same group that caved during the government shutdown in 1995 and gave Clinton a win.
Lemme see now:
A.) Shut down the non-essential, spendaholic Federal Government until the sorry spendaholic Federal politicians give up; or
B.) Shut down and destroy America by approving the funding of America’s death knell Obamacare; or
C.) Be very, very fearful of what the Democrat’s Liberal Agenda Media MIGHT say and write about old-style Republicans who have always before caved in to Democrats?
Think, think, think - - - - .
With the defunding battle uncertain, maybe the BEST way to repeal Obamacare is to force those who passed it, forced it on us and now seem to want NO PART of it, to also participate in it. Sens. Paul, Cruz, Lee and all GOP, please offer an amendment to the CR, that if the Senate Democrats insist on funding Obamacare, they also SHALL be subject to its rules, and ALL OTHER laws they pass!
1. The GOP
2. The GOP
3. The GOP
4. The GOP
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5. The GOP
Even if Reid decides to strip “defunding” from the House Bill, he has to count on all Democrats (or 51 of them) to do so. Seems this is the real Pandora’s Box for the Democrats. If they vote to put funding back into ObamaCare, they are effectively saying “We want this to stay forever”. However, 23 of those Senate Democrats are facing voters next year and many of those 23 are in Red States that Romney won. The last thing they want is a recent record of their commitment to ObamaCare. These Democrats MIGHT have been able to feign ignorance about the consequences of ObamaCare when they first passed it and we didn’t know what was in it. With all of the law’s disastrous consequences now a matter of public record, no such ignorance is even plausible. They want NO part of debates with Republican rivals in campaigns where they have to defend the disasters they voted for - twice. The fact the House voted as it did was - in my opinion - the REAL reason the Senate Democrats and their Progressive Republican bedfellows - is the true source of the consternation all around. These elected officials are now going to be forced to deal with their constituents in real terms. They won’t be able to spin their vote for ObamaCare as an error, much less as something beneficial to hordes of voters who know otherwise. The Left & Progressive Right may concentrate on trying to trash Cruz, but it’s these 23 Senate Democrats who are in the box. They have to vote for this again to keep it alive - which could well destroy their reelect chances 14 months from now.
Ted Cruz never blinks. If they don’t know it it is probably just this that drives them crazy about him and what appeals to those who want them all to do their jobs
1) ALL 45 of them have already voted for it once, in March, 2013!!; and
2) It is almost certain the Supreme Court will take up this issue in the coming year and it is an entirely reasonable position for the feckless GOPe weasels to say that the 0bamacare funding should be put on hold pending the resolution of the case that will soon be before the SCOTUS.
meh...and then re-elected.
Just watch.
Blink? The Republicans in the Senate have their eyes tightly closed, hoping this will go away.
will?
the GOP leaders have ALREADY blinked.
McCain HATES AND LOATHES the rank and file members. He despises Cruz because it disturbes his officer’s club/country club.
The rest of the GOP “leaders” are suckers for the effete media. (perhaps because so many are in physical relationships with reporters)
I spoke to Rubio’s office and thanked him for support but ask that he GET OUT THERE.....girl on the phone was almost giddy?!?
When the gov’t “shuts down” they still take taxes out of my paycheck, so the definition is flawed.
We live without them on weekends and holidays....a few weekdays would be great. Longer the better.
Cruz rules!
The people who are not working to defeat Obamacare are standing in the Middle of the tracks and staring at the train bearing down on them.
There will be no jumping aside once it gets there.
Not only that but I remember the 1995 to 1996 shutdowns (there were three) ended with the CR that Clinton Demanded that included back pay for all those affected.
In some cases those same Fed workers were paid overtime to catch up on top of the back pay, it cost more to shutdown.
At the time I had a friend (Maryland) who got her GS job Fall 1995 and she got all three weeks off fully paid and a fourth for the January blizzard. And no she didnt get laid off later when 'Newt forced Clinton to balance the budget'. None of trhem were.
Newt and Rush conveniently forget that in their romantic re-telling of the drama, but it looked real bad at the time.
You need to call NELSON’S office also!! The Dems need as many phone calls as the Pubbies do!!
I did...cold reception LOL
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