Posted on 05/12/2014 7:12:16 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
Well, it is official.
Eric Cantor and John Boehner particularly Eric Cantor have decided they dont need or want conservatives and, more troubling, do not have any intention of trying to win at the polls by forcing Democrat hands on Obamacare.
Our leadership is behaving badly.
Last week and on Monday I mentioned Rep. Steve Kings effort to repeal Obamacare and start over. Hes filed a discharge petition. If he gets 218 signatures, Nancy Pelosi must hold a vote
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
It pains me to say you are right. I am going to vote but I have no hope it will do any good. We are now beyond the ballot box.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
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