Posted on 08/17/2013 2:03:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Many Republicans who are eyeing a run for president in 2016 are backing an all-or-nothing plan to defund ObamaCare. More than half a dozen possible GOP White House candidates support that strategy while a handful are calling for a more nuanced approach to defunding or repealing the healthcare law. Another five are dodging questions and a couple others are not signaling one way or another.
[A detailed breakdown is outlined in the chart below.]
In short, some are willing to go to the brink and beyond of a government shutdown to defund ObamaCare. But it’s far from unanimous.
Still, the results of The Hill’s survey favors the shutdown-showdown strategy hatched by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), thanks to outspoken endorsements from GOP frontrunners, such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
The Florida Republican and three other colleagues also entertaining presidential runs — Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) — have backed Lee’s effort by refusing to support government funding bills that include money for ObamaCare.
The effort places immense pressure on GOP leaders and could result in a government shutdown if it prevents Congress from agreeing on a continuing resolution by Sept. 30.
Several top national Republicans have either been silent or agnostic on the threat, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
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My nose is still sore from holding it in 2010...NO Romney, NO Bush, NO more damned RINOs. No RINO or GOP elitist will ever defund or repeal Obamacare, that was my friends point. The way things look today, the elite GOP insiders like Cristie and operatives like Rove will make sure no conservative or libertarian gets the nomination, and thus the candidate will be a RINO-elitist, and who in their right mind believes one of those will repeal or defund?
Remember the old expression “It’s gonna get worse before it gets better”? I think that’s where we’re at....
My nose is sore from holding it since 2008.
If the GOP cannot defeat the likes of Rove & Christie it deserves to lose.
Don’t repeal it. It is a ticking bomb that even democrats are running from. Let the bomb go off; and in the fallout, repeal could be possible. It will be a mess. But having the GOP run in to try and defuse the bomb (defund); when it goes off, they will get the blame. Our leaders have the worst possible strategy; and no stones to boot.
Indeed. Buuuump!
Still, the results of The Hill’s survey favors the shutdown-showdown strategy hatched by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), thanks to outspoken endorsements from GOP frontrunners, such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)."Hatched"? Partisan Media Shills / Zerocare ping.
When was access to “health care” ever a Constitutional mandate? This is one of those “made-up” rights that has not the least penumbra nor historic basis anywhere. The only possible link would be to the inclusion of the words “promote the general welfare”, which in the 18th Century meant nothing at all like the phrase has come to be redefined in the 20th Century, and the original meaning has been all but obliterated in the Twenty-first Century.
The Federal government has the authority, though not the absolute supremacy, in determining what is the benefit to confer upon its citizens, in terms of reductions in diseases, promoting general safe conditions, and assuring the community has access to self-improvement. As this was not specifically spelled out in the Constitution, the actual responsibility falls fully on the STATE level, under the Tenth Amendment.
The direct administration of the responsibilities is further delegated to the local (county and municipality) levels of government.
Now, all this delegation of authority and responsibility takes money, which the Federal government has a monopoly in minting and defining, something the states are forbidden to do. What both the state and Federal governments share, however, is the authority to TAX various aspects of the economy, as defined by the relevant statutes.
Over the decades, the state and Federal governments have refined and perfected means of extracting tax revenue from the citizens, some bothersome, some unnoticed because of being hidden in the cost of doing business. All revenue from taxation, in the end, is a consumer tax on the individual, and there is no such thing as “taxing business”.
Yet the myth persists that the “rich” are going to pay all the taxes. Eventually the whole burden falls upon the poor schlub, at the bottom of the heap, or his children, or his children’s children, to pay the bill.
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