People are dying while you fiddle. Defund it NOW. Who made you God?
“People are dying while you fiddle. Defund it NOW. Who made you God?”
That is hyperbole in the extreme. Calm down, take a few deep breaths, and get a grasp on realty. And please be rational.
Obamacare is bad because it is socializing medicine - another step down a wrong path. It will hurt the economy, and it will hurt the quality of medical care. However, it is not currently “killing” anyone.
Shutting down the federal government WILL NOT make Obamacare go away. The POTUS has too big an ego to ever let go. Until we have solid (large) unwaivering majorities in both the Senate and House....we cannot get rid of it...we can at best mitigate its damage. However, if we in engage in foolish gestures (shutting down the gov.) that will just piss off the public and hurt our credibility...we won’t even be able to do that.
We DO NOT have a united Republican Party, and you Tea Party types with your scorched earth extremism are not doing anything to correct that....you are just helping more crazed Democrats to be elected...or more liberal Republicans.
You have to win the public, and that cannot always be done quickly. Mr. Obama was on the ropes over his failed foreign policy and making us look like fools at the hands of Putin. Now GOP extremists have thrown him a life line by insisting on a foolish course of action on an issue we have repeatedly been beaten over...repeatedly. We cannot win Mr. Obama being emasculated if we act a bigger fool than him. Shutting down the Fed. is not how you solve anything.
We need to keep pushing and insisting on cuts to the size of the fed (and NOT DoD!) agencies. We might be able to get these, but we won’t - at this time - stop Obamacare in a way that is clearly obvious...Mr. Obama’s ego won’t allow that...and the Democrats won’t let him be tarnished.
We MUST be wise in how we do things. I think Tom Coburn has the right idea. At least on this issue.
By the way...by what morale authority do you have to say, “who made you God.” It is a terrible missuse of the phrase and an affront to the Lord.
Personally, I thing God is more concerned about the repeal of DADT...open homosexuality in the military....homosexual marriage in states....than He is about Obamacare. Show some outrage about things that have real significant potential to do long term morale damage to this country than economic (moral damage is far worse..and what God cares about). That is one reason I have problems with Tea Party types. Many (not all) are only “fiscal” conservatives. Being well off financially is useless if you have to live in a moral sewer. It chills me to my bones when I hear that many are fiscally conservative but morally/socially moderate. That tells me that folks priorities are totally jacked up.