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Can Appropriations Bills Defund Obamacare? [Yes!]
Heritage Foundation ^ | Aug 14, 2013

Posted on 08/15/2013 12:16:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson



TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: appropriations; congress; defund; obamacare
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To: nathanbedford
Congress has also used its power of the purse to unilaterally cancel treaty obligations:


61 posted on 08/15/2013 8:15:07 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: wita

His record is a mirror of Obamas. Pro gay, pro Abortion, Anti gun control freak.

Before his election, Obama wasn’t a full blown tyrant either. But his record showd him to have that potential. Once elected, he realized that potential. So you think his twin would do any different? Not according to his record he wouldn’t have.

History can be a real problem for his apologists. And making excuses and what ifs is no different. He was and is a liberal and some here wanted him in office.

Conservatives do not make excuses for liberal disasters. If they do and thats the new normal here, then what else are you willing to compromise on so we can have this debate on clear footing?


62 posted on 08/15/2013 8:20:57 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

The issue is in comment 48. What you seem to ignore are the folks elected who do pay attention to the platform and who can be considered principled GOP. I don’t think you really want to throw good people under the bus to end up with a third party that will ultimately look exactly like what you dislike at present. You unfortunately reject everything when not everything is bad. That my friend is the democrat view of the Republican party, and it is a lie.


63 posted on 08/15/2013 8:27:22 AM PDT by wita
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To: wita

Name 10 actual conservatives who vote consistently with the written platform on the big issues.

From that number if you can reach it, how many of them are like McCain and Ghramm who occasionally vote right but ALWAYS screw the whole thing up Gang of Ocho style?

How many does that leave? 5? maybe? That is how Democrats get power, not by electing principled people.

God I cannot believe I am on FR trying to convince people that voting for principled leaders is good and that electing libs is bad.


64 posted on 08/15/2013 8:33:53 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Jim Robinson; All

“...political will...” ???

How about “political courage”!!!

Otherwise, my opinion of Congress remains the same...They are a bunch of feckless wastes of air...


65 posted on 08/15/2013 8:56:27 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: txrangerette

Be aware, there is a concerted effort by the opposition to turn Texas blue once again...They are succeeding...

They may not get it totally done this next election cycle, but the trend in the tea leaves is they have a good chance to do so by the time 2016 rolls around...

It is wayyyyyy past time to draw swords, put a line in the sand as far as I am concerned...


66 posted on 08/15/2013 8:59:37 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: stevie_d_64

The dems learned that they only need to get liberal/moderate Repubs elected to conservative areas to have their agenda passes without a fight. And they count on the compromise brigade of the right wing base to elect them.

But some here insist we help them. Proof is in the history of the post Reagan years.


67 posted on 08/15/2013 9:14:33 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: wita

The platform of the gop is not relevant in my view. It’s propaganda for the ever shrinking numbers of true believers. Whatever platform is agreed to will be promptly ignored less than 5 minutes after the convention ends.

Even if the gop were to wake up one morning and make a serious effort to reform itself along conservative lines, it would be doomed to failure. Why? Because trust has been broken. Once broken, trust is very difficult to regain, and the gop has broken trust with conservatives so many times that there just isn’t any reserve to fall back on. Very few people who don’t have a vested personal interest in the gop would bother with a reform effort, sincere or otherwise. It would be perceived, logically, as a waste of time and effort.

There is an old saying that goes like this: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The gop is up around 346 in fooling conservatives.

The time of the gop as an opposition political party is simply over. We have a one party system with two factions that differ little in their views of governance.


68 posted on 08/15/2013 9:27:08 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: Norm Lenhart

“God I cannot believe I am on FR trying to convince people that voting for principled leaders is good and that electing libs is bad”.

I’m giving you credit for your being a 98er, but you have no idea how ignorant your comment sounds to me. Mitt Romney was one of the most principled men running and unfortunately you nor I will ever know how he would have governed. Frankly I had very few questions regarding how Mr Romney would have governed, and I knew exactly how the other one would back when he was an Illinois State Senator.

“His record is a mirror of Obamas. Pro gay, pro Abortion, Anti gun control freak”. Total emotional crap based on what you may have been reading right on this very site.

Your choosing to ignore other principles completely opposite has me thinking you have been emotionally dragged into the fray.

Regardless of everything you mentioned above about Romney, it is the Congress that would have faced those issues, NOT Mr Romney, and as you and I hopefully both agree it is the Congress by and large that is the problem with government. They are abdicating their duty to keep the Executive and Judicial branches of Government in check and it isn’t all of them, just enough to make it seem like “they” are all against us.

As to your name ten comment, I would say 40% of the House Republicans could be counted on to vote right much of the time and the Senate pretty close to the same number. In both houses of Congress that is not a majority, but it is close. It may be all one can expect when you try to elect someone with principles from the North east or the West coast. Nearly impossible. Government is what it is and the voters are in charge. So you win a few and lose a few, and don’t throw the baby out with the bath water to use an overused statement.


69 posted on 08/15/2013 9:47:56 AM PDT by wita
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To: Norm Lenhart

As I understand it, the Republicans had options at several points to stop OC from being passed. Options they did not utilize.

Why?

It was obvious to me that the leadership wanted it to pass, albeit on party lines, in the belief that the party would benefit at the polls in the next elections.

It was a cold, calculated decision to destroy the lives of millions of people for what they hoped would be political gain. IMO, this makes them as evil as the Dems.

Mitch McConnell is dirty as hell on this point & if he is successful in reaching the general election, he will not get my vote.


70 posted on 08/15/2013 10:03:16 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: wita

Are you remotely serious or as Ashton going to jump out and tell me I got punked?

Principled? The man that has cartoons in his honor showing him talking out of both sides of a dozen mouths? the guy that gave his own money to planned barrenhood? the guy that said he’d be better than Ted Kennedy for the homos? thee guy that had illegals working at his house?

I gotta tell you. I have seen some over the top outright lies about this guy but PRINCIPLED??

Really?

This is a joke right? Because if you are serious you are barking moonbat insane. The guy is a principled liberal in that he adopted the principles of liberalism. All of them.

He didn’t miss one I’m aware of. And please tell me that 40 percent number has some data to back it up. I know it doesn’t of course since we see Obama’s unchecked spending and power grabs daily.

Just amazing what people call conservative around here lately.


71 posted on 08/15/2013 10:21:37 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Jim Robinson
Rodney Alexander R La. member appropriations committee, has announced his last term.

Rodney turned coat about 15 years ago.

I look for him to sell US out! Take the money and run. Obey his master, and stomp the smurfs!

72 posted on 08/15/2013 10:43:46 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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To: Norm Lenhart; wita
The guy is a principled liberal in that he adopted the principles of liberalism. All of them.

He didn’t miss one I’m aware of.
Bingo!

And this has been proven by historical fact over and over and over again on FreeRepublic by Freepers.
73 posted on 08/15/2013 10:51:34 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: VerySadAmerican
>"Too bad the law doesn’t prevent the DOD from providing military equipment to city cops."

Or the DOJ from providing military equipment to Prohibition Created Foreign Drug Cartels.

74 posted on 08/15/2013 10:52:05 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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To: SoConPubbie

Got another lib demanding we stay on the plantation here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3055064/posts


75 posted on 08/15/2013 10:55:43 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: wita
I’m giving you credit for your being a 98er, but you have no idea how ignorant your comment sounds to me. Mitt Romney was one of the most principled men running and unfortunately you nor I will ever know how he would have governed. Frankly I had very few questions regarding how Mr Romney would have governed, and I knew exactly how the other one would back when he was an Illinois State Senator.

Principled my Ass!

The Father of RomneyCare, a Socialist Healthcare program principled?

The Father of Gay Marriage in America, Principled?

The supporter of Abortion, Principled?

The supporter of Gays in the Military, the Boy Scouts, and Allowing them to adopt innocent babies, Principled?

The supporter of Global Warming, Principled?

The Governor that wanted to ban Assault Weapons, Principled?

And he did not admit every, that his previous positions and actions were incorrect during this last election, so besided not being principled, he is dishonest.

Principled in comparison to who? Stalin? Nancy Pelosi? Barack Obama?

There is not an ounce of conservative principle, or even Christian principle in that Liberal loser's soul as HIS OWN HISTORY PROVES!
76 posted on 08/15/2013 10:56:45 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: jazusamo

Thank you. My congressman still thinks Obamacare is the best thing to happen since sliced bread. He’s one of those “I know what’s best for you” congressmen. And the idiots in my district keep voting him back in.


77 posted on 08/15/2013 10:58:26 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Norm Lenhart
And contrary to many idiots claims, we do indeed have a choice.


78 posted on 08/15/2013 10:58:33 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: RayChuang88
We must more than just defund Obamacare. We also need to create a viable alternative. And here's my suggestion: allow health insurance companies to offer policies across state lines on a regional basis. That way, there will be vastly more choice for health insurance plans, and with a lot more competition, that means lower prices overall.

A good idea. Let get-out-of-the-way free market entrepreneurial capitalism have a free reign. No government involvement. None. The only way that's going to happen is the eventual success of a third party or an armed revolution. Take your pick. 'Reforming' the republican party is not going to happen. Newt railing on about the republicans having no 'alternative' health care plan is a perfect example of how entrenched they are. The plan Newt is simple: free market entrepreneurial capitalism. Any questions?

79 posted on 08/15/2013 11:07:33 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Liz; jazusamo

” “The administration miscalculated how many states would support this law, so now they’re using the IRS to push through provisions that Congress did not pass.”

Nailed it!


80 posted on 08/15/2013 11:09:00 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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