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House GOP Mulls CR with Vitter Amendment (Sword of Damocles)
National Review ^
| September 28, 2013 6:39 PM
| Robert Costa
Posted on 09/28/2013 10:04:41 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:04:41 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
Touche. Vitter’s ammendment snookers Reid into looking like an elitist cryptkeeper.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:10:22 PM PDT
by
Viennacon
To: 11th_VA; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; Liz; ...
RE :”
Should that happen, the House will send another bill back. The leadership is mulling several options. At the top of the list is a revised CR that includes the Vitter amendment, authored by Senator David Vitter (R., La.), which would eliminate Obamacare subsidies for congressional staffers and members.
The leadership thinks that a final CR with Vitters language would put them on solid political ground, even if Senate Democrats resist. In that scenario, and the government shut down, Republicans would argue that Democrats shut down the government to protect their perks.” I been posting that they should do this for weeks. That must be why its brilliant HAHA. (Doesn't this CR just last to November anyway?)
This is the really low hanging fruit that Dems and Obama have no defense for.
How many in congress will oppose cutting off their own perks that they will even still get in a shutdown if nothing goes in to law?
Beat Dems
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:11:44 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: 11th_VA
Other than Manchin, what other sky-blue Democrat(s) could be peeled off?
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:14:39 PM PDT
by
gasport
(I ain't got no guns.)
To: Viennacon
Why is it I don’t trust this?
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:14:41 PM PDT
by
OneVike
(I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: Viennacon
Well, I’m very happy they’re still putting up a fight. Praying they come through for freedom.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:15:43 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: gasport
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:16:09 PM PDT
by
Viennacon
To: sickoflibs
Seems to be the best option at this point.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:16:28 PM PDT
by
Mygirlsmom
(Didja hear the one about the 3 Senators who went to sign up for Obamacare? Yeah, me neither.)
To: OneVike
Because it is good policy to never trust the GOP leadership.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:16:41 PM PDT
by
Viennacon
To: Viennacon
Must be it.
I have a nasty feeling whenever I read anything that says the Republican leadership has figured out a way to screw the Democrats.
It always ends up screwing us instead of them.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:19:00 PM PDT
by
OneVike
(I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: 11th_VA
But what if the Senate passes the one with the Vitter amendment? Does that mean we get full implementation of Obamacare, with that one modification?
That’s a disastrous deal for us, since the whole Congressional exemption thing is a trifle compared to the full impact of Obamacare.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:19:39 PM PDT
by
JediJones
(The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
To: Mygirlsmom
I would like to see GOP beat Obama and Reid once in a while.
GOP minority victory in 2010 was shaming Dems into adding to Obama-care a provision that forces congress and their staff to get their health care from Obama-care exchanges.
But the weasels got Obama to give them that subsidy to pay for it.
This is one I been posting for here for a month or so now.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:21:00 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: Mygirlsmom
Imagine Reid having to get the Senators vote for this.
I love it.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:24:16 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: 11th_VA
Vitter amendment with unanimous GOP opposition to cloture takes back the Senate in 2014. Period. But it will never happen with Progressive VietCong operative McCain on the job.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:27:04 PM PDT
by
montag813
(NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
To: 11th_VA
So they will abandon protecting Americans from disaster and will instead simply guarantee the elites will be afflicted along with the serfs.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:27:36 PM PDT
by
gitmo
( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
To: 11th_VA
I know the GOP has some end game in mind. The vitter amendment idea is as good as any. They are currently forcing the dems into defending Obama care on the record. Then it will be time to take their case to the voters next year. I sure wish we could back at Obama for illegally giving exemptions regarding this law. Heck, even if the senate passes the vitter amendment, Obama my still give the exemption. It already is the law,,
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:28:02 PM PDT
by
Mustangman
(The GOP)
To: JediJones
But what if the Senate passes the one with the Vitter amendment?I think they won't. Obama has already made it clear he won't sign anything but a "clean" bill. This amendment, while not what we need, puts the Democrats in an indefensible position.
On second thought, it's too soon for this. Shut down the government for a few weeks, then offer this.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:31:18 PM PDT
by
Steve0113
(I miss having a president who loves this country.)
To: gitmo
So they will abandon protecting Americans from disaster and will instead simply guarantee the elites will be afflicted along with the serfs""As the HHS Secretary may determine"... Obama will just tell HHS to give them the exemptions anyway
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:31:28 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: 11th_VA
Fine by me. they can’t spin that one.
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posted on
09/28/2013 10:31:44 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: 11th_VA
At the top of the list is a revised CR that includes the Vitter amendment, authored by Senator David Vitter (R., La.), which would eliminate Obamacare subsidies for congressional staffers and members.What's to think about? This should have been in there from the beginning.
Oh wait... Maybe it's because Boehner and Reid secretly colluded to get special treatment for congressional staffs back in April:
Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption
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