GOP!!!!
Toast they are.
This is just theater. The outcome has already been determined.
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
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?
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.
The House should just submit a bill and tell the Zero King to sign it or not and stop having Ol’ Batty Harry running interference for the occupant in the WH. Then do what Reid did: announce any bill funding ZeroCare from the Senate is DOA in the House.
Kabuki theater anyone? The gop of course.