Maybe the people we need to be calling (in addition to our senators, or the senators who claim to be ours) are our representatives. We need to tell them to take Reid’s amendment out and send it right back to the Senate within minutes of getting it.
Or even better yet, pass a resolution right now telling the Senate that anything that comes back with Obamacare funded is DOA so it is all on the Senate to decide whether they’re gonna fund the government (minus Obamacare) or not. If this is all about who has the last chance to get the CR passed before the clock runs out, then the House could play ping pong easily in this game of chicken. Send it back to the Senate as many times as they try funding Obamacare.
What John Roberts said in his crappy Obamacare ruling was that elections have consequences. Well, the people voted to put R’s in control of the purse, and it’s time for that election to have consequences. Right, John McCain??? Right, Tim Kaine?? Right, Dick Durbin???
As for Harry Reid, by saying there was nothing said in those 21 hours that they didn’t already know, he’s telling every person who Tweeted and every person whose letter was read that he knows their pain and farts in their general direction. Should make a good ad somewhere down the line...
Good post. Just to expound slightly, the House has already compromised giving the Dems everything they want except Obamacare. If they stick to that, Reid is in the hot seat. If the Senate folds, which I think it will, Obama will veto and the House rolls out the same argument - we have compromised and there ain’t no more to give. You can’t have 100% so you have to give up something.
If the repubicans weren’t so spineless they could do it. They need to grow a backbone, like yesterday!