It really doesn’t matter what the senate does. Reid’s senate will never go along with Republicans. That’s a given. But the senate doesn’t even matter on this one, nor does Obama.
The real strategy is to have the Republican controlled House NOT fund Obamacare under any circumstances whatsoever.
They must reject whatever the senate sends back to them that enables Obamacare to go forward. Then they should begin passing “clean” bills to fund the legitimate and essential departments of government, one at a time.
If Reid and Obama block each one, you just continue with the next one. Let Obama/Reid say hell no we will not fund the military or whichever department the house chooses to fund next.
Keep rejecting the senate’s obnoxious attempts to amend the bills. The people will recognize and understand who the real villains really are.
But at the same time, keep reminding the people over and over again that Obama/Reid cannot unilaterally block military pay, or social security checks, or medicare payments, or funding for the post office, or the courts, or the air traffic controllers or any other “essential” government service.
If Obama/Reid carry through with THEIR threats to shutdown the government, the main thing that will happen is a whole bunch of federal employees will get laid off. Big deal.
The Republican House controls the purse strings per the constitution. Draw them up taut!!
Let Obama/Reid howl like the petulant spoiled children they are.
The Reaganite Cruz is just the guy who can take the message directly to the people and explain it in terms that will unite the people against the spread-the-wealth-around Marxists. The people do not want this job-killing, nation-wrecking socialist obamacare system. They do not want the government controlling their healthcare.
If the House Republicans hold the line they will be heroes to the American people and the Republicans will be swept into office in landslide victories in 2014.
If they listen to Tokyo Rove and the GOP-e statists and cave, they fail. If they go ahead and fund Obamacare after the majority of the people have told them not to, then I sure as hell would not expect them to be re-elected.
The longest filibuster by a lone Senator went to Strum Thurmond, but evidently a team of Senators were able to filibuster for 57 days.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/28858/5-longest-filibusters-in-u-s-senate-history
“Thurmond was not the only lawmaker to filibuster on the issue, however. According to Senate records, teams of senators consumed 57 days filibustering between March 26 and June 19, the day the Civil Rights Act of 1957 passed.”
Rove will be living on Fox News every chance he gets, stabbing us in the back.
The Republicans had better get off their lazy butts and fight back publicly.
Momentum is there to be had for the taking.
The bum in the White House has never been weaker.
If there's anything left to them, they need to follow Ted Cruz's example, FIGHT!
Going to be a long, tough, dirty fight against MSM, Rat and Rino lies.
Absolutely!
IIRC, about the worst that will happen is they will get paid retroactively (paid vacation, only it doesn't count against their vacation time). I believe that happened before.