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Fate of Obamacare Controlled by Republicans -- Period
Townhall.com ^ | September 25, 2013 | Terry Jeffrey

Posted on 09/25/2013 8:02:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

In the next few days, politicians in Washington, D.C., will do and say many things to make it look and sound as if they are against Obamacare when in fact they are ultimately planning to use the power that has been vested in them by the people of their districts and states to ensure that Obamacare is funded and implemented.

But make no mistake: If Obamacare is funded and implemented it will be because Republican members of Congress decided to do it.

This is not a debatable supposition. It is an irrefutable fact. The fate of Obamacare is controlled completely by Republicans -- period.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution says: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law." That means that President Barack Obama cannot spend a dollar out of the Treasury unless Congress has enacted a law authorizing him to spend that dollar. As of now, the law authorizing Obama to spend dollars expires on Sept. 30.

Both houses of Congress must pass a bill and the president must sign that bill for it to become law. If the House does not pass a bill authorizing Obama to spend money implementing Obamacare in the period after Sept. 30, Obama cannot spend money for that purpose.

Last week, the Republican-controlled House approved a bill to fund the government after Sept. 30 that specifically states that "no Federal funds shall be made available to carry out any provisions" of Obamacare and that prohibits all the new "entitlements and benefits" under Obamacare from taking effect.

As long as House Republicans insist on keeping this language in any legislation enacted to fund the government after Sept. 30, Obamacare is dead.

If House Republicans decide to remove this language, Obamacare will live. And, if House Republicans decide to let Obamacare live now, it almost certainly will live (or evolve into a single-payer health care system) as long as America itself manages to stumble along under the accumulating burden of it and all the other welfare-state programs that have been created in this nation since President Franklin Roosevelt first began building an American welfare state in the 1930s.

It will not matter if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., refuses to move a government funding bill through the Senate that includes the House language defunding Obamacare. It will not matter if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and the majority of Senate Republicans -- except Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Mike Lee, R-Utah, and a few other stalwarts -- decide to let Reid pass legislation to fund Obamacare by a simple majority vote. It will not matter if Obama vows to veto any legislation that includes the House language that prohibits funding for Obamacare.

Unless the Republican-controlled House passes legislation that permits funding of Obamacare, Obamacare is dead.

The strategic framework of this battle is simple: Every thing Obama, Senate Democrats and their allies in the liberal media are doing in this fight seeks a single end -- making House Republicans enact legislation funding the implementation of Obamacare.

If Obama, Senate Democrats and their allies in the liberal media cannot make House Republicans fund Obamacare, they lose and America wins.

So the question is this: Why would House Republicans abandon their current principled position and go ahead and fund Obamacare?

In general terms, this answer is also simple: They will only do it if they believe that for enacting legislation to fund Obamacare they will get something they value even more in return.

But what could that be?

To answer that it is first necessary to weigh the value of what the Republicans would get if they hold their ground and stop Obamacare. In that case, they would preserve a large measure of American freedom that is imminently threatened.

Under Obamacare, for the first time ever, the federal government will force American citizens to buy a product they do not want.

Under Obamacare, the administration will give tax dollars to insurance plans that pay for abortions -- the deliberate taking of innocent life.

Under Obamacare, the administration will force Catholics and other Christians to buy and/or provide coverage for services -- including sterilizations, artificial contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs -- that violate the teachings of their faith.

Obamacare will annihilate both freedom of conscience and innocent human lives -- in the babies aborted by its subsidies.

Could Obama and Senate Democrats and the liberal media offer anything of such great value that House Republicans should trade it for this?

No.


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To: Kaslin

SCOTUS didn’t follow the Constitution McCain. So the Repubs should vote this thing down!


41 posted on 09/25/2013 9:40:48 AM PDT by BeadCounter (Really? Syria?)
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To: Engineer1955

more specifics?

if obamacare is 100% self-appropriating, then there should be no battle now.


42 posted on 09/25/2013 9:51:24 AM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: SteveH

“This $23.6 billion is part of the $105.5 billion appropriated by the last Congress to fund Obamacare. The remainder (Think of it as post-dated checks for the other $81.9 billion.) automatically becomes available between now and FY2019.” - See more at: http://www.askheritage.org/has-obamacare-already-begun-implementation/#sthash.aP22sGvX.dpuf


43 posted on 09/25/2013 10:02:23 AM PDT by Engineer1955
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To: tumblindice

I would prefer a purge in the 2013 GOP of the spineless national (and some states) party leadership and a takeover by small government, personal liberty, states’ rights people.

However, our divide today is over similar issues to the 1856 blowup of the Whigs; tax slavery, regulatory slavery, debt slavery and immigration. Add in legislation without representation by the unelected bureaucracy having the force of law and today’s problem statement is fairly complete.


44 posted on 09/25/2013 10:09:57 AM PDT by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yes but far more Democrats will support Obamacare than Republicans.


45 posted on 09/25/2013 10:38:44 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: AppyPappy

The house has the power of the purse.


46 posted on 09/25/2013 11:03:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: ConservativeDude

As Cruz said on Limbaugh...the GOP govern by fear, fear that they will lose their congressional power in 2014 elections if they are blamed for shutting down the government.

they underestimate conservative Americans and think we are incapable of critical independent thinking.

Republicans will lose because they have alienated the true patriots left in this country who will rally behind a candidate who remembers and preaches the values that founded this country...

acting on fear always leads to defeat...and defeated they will be especially if they manage to avoid a government shutdown by abandoning conservatives to the death panels of Obamacare.


47 posted on 09/25/2013 11:42:13 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: longfellowsmuse

well said!

(Would that politicians would fear the loss of OUR freedom...rather than the loss of their privileged jobs....)


48 posted on 09/25/2013 11:52:58 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Kaslin

Since there is ample evidence that years ago our elected representatives cease to represent the “will of the people” .... is there any way to put this whole mess up for a public vote?


49 posted on 09/25/2013 12:14:44 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Kaslin
I posted this yesterday or the day before....

1) If the Senate votes to fund Obamacare, and/or

2) If the House brings up a bill in response to Senate Amnesty bill,

then here is the result for 2014 - take it to the bank. America is fed up with the wussified "do-nothing" GOE Congress.




50 posted on 09/25/2013 12:28:56 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Kaslin

“Unless the Republican-controlled House passes legislation that permits funding of Obamacare, Obamacare is dead.”

Yup. The fight is and remains in the House. The focus has been on the Senate for the past few days but the House is where mcconnellcare succeeds or fails.


51 posted on 09/25/2013 12:52:31 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: ConservativeDude

Great question. Why aren’t the democrats screaming “We do have the votes in the house!”


52 posted on 09/25/2013 1:27:38 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: HiTech RedNeck
This looks like a “people are overawed by evil” problem to me. Sometimes it takes a school of hard knocks to get through people’s heads that yes, when you stick with God, you get hurled into some nasty battles but you also win. And sometimes dire necessity is the only thing that will get people to try that approach. To put it in a more purely spiritual plane... the fear of hell can’t get anybody to heaven, but it can get them to the point where they endeavor to make amends with heaven (at which point they find it surprisingly easy... the cross already did the tough stuff). Anyhow, Obama “care” is the political hell that God has set up here to inspire people to look for heaven again. IMHO.

NOPE! The only thing that is going to happen is that the idiot masses will become enraged and, like good little Obama soldiers, they will massacre the chosen scapegoat...you. Then they will slaughter the families of the opposition down to the last child. Then America will be as filthy, bloody, and miserable as the worst fourth world fecal dump for the rest of time.

Hell is coming to America but ONLY the innocent will suffer. The evil ones will prosper and delight in their destructive sadism. God will not save the helpless. If you aren't planning to leave the country yet then get crackin!
53 posted on 09/25/2013 1:53:03 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: Paladin2
No longer the case as Bammy continues as a Dicktater.

Watch his DICKTATER skills when the Congress does not raise the Debt Ceiling (I can hope can't I?).

He will clearly be operating outside the Constitution when he continues borrowing money. If the pubbies do not have the stomach for a little defunding fight they sure as hell are not going to go against him on anything - THE GOP IS CLEARLY THE SURRENDER MONKEY PARTY AND NEED A NEW MASCOT AND SHOULD BE RETIRING THE ELEPHANT.
54 posted on 09/25/2013 2:01:21 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Defiant

“Obama, Pelosi and Reid, we told you not to pass it and you did anyway. It’s our money.”

And then we as a free country, voted all 3 back into power.

Shame on who?


55 posted on 09/25/2013 2:18:23 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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56 posted on 09/25/2013 2:26:12 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Wanderer99

Sorry you are still missing the big picture... in fact you are yourself a bit overawed by hell. If you actually got true confessions from the devil... the devil would tell you that being the devil sucks. And the same goes for the vaunted delight of the evil.


57 posted on 09/25/2013 2:26:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Wanderer99

Let me be a little more specific in fact, if you are doubtful.

Heaven is based on love and God’s glory.

Hell is based on pride and vainglory.

Love is immensely durable and so is the glory that fills it.

Prides are so easily dinged. For every gloating pride the evil get they “pay for it” in dozens of narcissistic injuries that they have no metaphysical way of getting away from... because God did not build them to work that way.

Take courage and stand for the One and love and glorify Him. It will make all the difference in the world, in fact in eternity too.


58 posted on 09/25/2013 2:32:03 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

LOVE IT!!

(at which point they find it surprisingly easy... the cross already did the tough stuff)

And the “GUY” who rode it!!


59 posted on 09/25/2013 3:52:15 PM PDT by Lurk-know-more (The administration is causing the battle lines to be formed. Defend the US Constitution.)
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To: Kaslin

“Why would House Republicans abandon their current principled position and go ahead and fund Obamacare?”

Because only about 45 of them don’t want it, and Obama, Reid, and Pelosi all know that.


60 posted on 09/25/2013 3:56:08 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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