Posted on 09/29/2013 2:07:00 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
"If the Senate stalls until Monday afternoon instead of working today, it would be an act of breathtaking arrogance by the Senate Democratic leadership," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "They will be deliberately bringing the nation to the brink of a government shutdown."
In the event lawmakers blow the Monday deadline, about 800,000 workers would be forced off the job without pay.
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GOP!!!!
Toast they are.
This is just theater. The outcome has already been determined.
The question to be asked is: “If it is in the Nation’s best interest to shut down the Government, then why are there only TWO Federal Politicians, Obama and Reid, loudly advocating shutting down the US Federal Government?
Obama has MANY reasons to shutdown the Federal Government such as:
1.) A headline grabbing story that will distract attention from the Impeachable scandals of:
Benghazi Massacre Dereliction of Duty by Obama as CIC;
Obamacare Insurance managed by the corrupt IRS;
IRS harassment of political opponents of Obama;
Use of the NSA by Obama to spy on everybody in the USA;
etc, etc.
2.) The use of fear of a shutdown might help to protect defunding and eventual abolishment of Obama’s narrowly focucused ideological agenda of an European-style, failure-prone, Marxist, monopoly of the US Medical Insurance Industry.
3.) Spreading fear and blame might also preserve Obama’s power to increase Obamacare Insurance premiums on an annual basis.
*This would be highly advantageous to Obama as the increase in mandatory insurance premiums would not be a tax, as the “unexpected market conditions” would be given as the reason for the increase.
*Also there would be no need to ask for the “Advice and Consent” of Congress, as the IRS would be in complete control of all income and medical records.
4.) The last reason is the most important for Obama, personally: America would at last no longer be a Nation where the Liberty to choose ones own family destiny could ever exist again.
As for Reid, the best guess I have is that he wants a Government Monopoly of the Medical Insurance Industry. Well, to be fair, Reid calls for a “single payer” system.
My guess is that multi-millionaire Reid, nearing Federal retirement, owns a lot of stock in some companies that are tied to a “single payer” system.
Maybe the NSA, or the IRS can find out for us?
I’m going to as my US Senator from TEXAS, The Esteemed Senator John “To Hell with my voters” Cornyn to check on this for me - - - .
Considering how Reps turned on Reps, they’ll fold like an army cot.
Dems will push the country and it’s citizens to the brink for gain and power.
Shut the SOB down
If we get our 1 year mandate delay we get our 14’ issue. The rats know it.
A few million people have lost their private sector jobs due to Obama policies. Screw 800k federal employees that will get their backpay if there is a shutdown.
I have a big question about the latest GOP alternative.
From your linked article: “Republicans argued that they had already made compromises; for instance, their latest measure would leave intact most parts of the health care law that have taken effect, including requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions....”
The individual mandate was paired with that provision. If they continue to require coverage for pre-existing conditions but defer the individual mandate for a year, won’t people just not get insurance while they’re healthy, and sign up when they get the cancer diagnosis and need treatment running into the six figures?
And if that happens, won’t the insurance companies go bankrupt?
The GOPe are twerkers for the ‘Rats.
Don't bet your lunch money on that, I'd view Dingy Harry as one of those who goes from the floor of the Senate to the funeral home, about 2028. Those Mormons live a long time.
With the POP leadership of the GOP, I vote POP. “Whiz Our Pants” leadership at it’s worst...
We the people are represented via the House. We will not blink. Obamacare must go!!
The party of go along to get along. GOOP
Obamacare is a train wreck in progress. Work hours being cut to avoid insurance requirements. Employers replacing health care benefits with a (taxable) fixed payment. Unions trying to get out of Obamacare.
This week the online insurance exchanges start, so we can expect a train e-wreck when the new systems come online. And eventually a lot of people will find they’re having to pay more, not less.
If there is a government shutdown, Zero and his MSM minions will be able to shift attention from Obamacare problems to the shutdown. The shutdown will be designed to maximize the pain for the public — the govt has SOPs for that. And it will all be blamed on the Tea Party and the Evil Republicans.
The House has made its point. Avoid the distraction of a shutdown. Let the train wreck continue, uninterrupted, in full view.
Republican representatives, who function to explain the decisions of glittering Washington’s superstars to the poor benighted rubes and hicks back home, will explain that there was no alternative but to let the Democrats have everything they wanted. They will follow this up by asking for votes and campaign contributions so they can keep their jobs.
This is a teeth-clenching crisis for the Beltway crowd, but out here in flyover country the leaves are turning and it’s getting close to hunting season. We do have a ruling class intent on scaring the hell out of Grandma that her Medicare is going to be cut off and quite immoral enough to make sure that’s the first casualty, but what they’re really afraid of, I suspect, is that we’ll realize we can do without them.
Oh please. It'll be more like a vacation with pay, only delayed a bit.
LOL I just got my yearly ginormous 152 page “Medicare & You” from Evil Kathleen yesterday.
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