“Any senator who votes with Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats ... has made the decision to allow Obamacare to be funded,” Cruz told reporters after his marathon speech ended Wednesday at noon. Cruz himself has predicted that is exactly what the Senate will do, and he’s already called on House Republicans to reject the bill when it comes back to them.
How ‘bout that so called “Supreme” Court and that John Roberts?! They sure made a mess for this country to have to clean up.
Obama picks and chooses what laws he enforces. It makes no difference what congress passes. Wake up Boehner!
Bone-us is doing this to give democrats cover for the elections in 2014, this way voters will not feel any pain before the election as the result of Obamacare.
Not good enough Boner, no where near good enough.
FIGHT coward!
That's because he plans on keeping his eyes closed when he signs off on it.
At the same time, the Ohio Republican said House GOP leaders would unveil legislation to lift the government’s borrowing cap, but only if the new health care law is delayed for a year.
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This is a good start. For Boehner at least. He was ready, willing and able to swallow what the Senate to him to and do whatever they told him to do.
Dammit!
Pulling Defeat from the jaws of Victory?
Just when we’re about to kill the whole thing, Boner is going to put it on life support?
Idiot!
Well. That’s encouraging. Even temporary would be good.
To ensure democrat victories in congress?
This man’s wimpiness is a danger or is it complicity. The Uniparty of big government where no one really works a lot?
I know I know......but its a good start! Remember two weeks ago????
They are listening folks. It wouldnt have come this far without folks like FReepers.
We called EVERYONE including Santa Claus!
Delay is a stupid idea. People need to suffer before they will want to change it.
(If they had the ability to understand without experiencing it, they would have voted Obama out in 2012.)
I posted on another thread a few minutes ago, regarding this issue.
I called my congresscritter’s office yesterday and told the young man who answered the phone to ask him to vote against Blackburn’s delay amendment, or get her to drop it altogether.
They should vote on defunding once again, but as a stand-alone bill. Get everyone on record now.
The young man said I was the first to call about the delay tactic coming up and that he would tell DesJarlais what I’d said. He read back what he’d written down during our conversation to make sure he had it correct, which he did.
This may be the route to go since we know Reid is going to put funding back into the current CR. I just don’t know that there’ll be enough votes in the Senate to stop it. grrrrr! So we need to work on the House to stop the delay tactic, which I believe is the wrong way to go. We don’t need to give the dems breathing room next year, and that’s what a delay will do. Like it or not, I have the sinking feeling we’re going to be clobbered with Obamacare. People are going to be hurting and furious and they’ll remember who voted to hit us with it when they go to the voting booth.
bttt
Delay will save Obamacare. We have to defund. If we delay, the administration will be more ready for full implementation and not look stupid and inept like they do now. This will save the DEMS.
Hey, that would be wonderful if those of us who just got dropped are guaranteed to not have any coverage at all for a full year. Way to go, repugs. This all should have been done three years ago.
NYT poll: Practically no one expects Obamacare to go well which is precisely why RINOs reached across the aisle to help their good buddies omit the controversial affordable care act (CACA) from the 2014 election. That'll show Cruze and those damn teabaggers, the RNC establishment muttered.
This is more than I expected from Bohner, this could get interesting.
See if this stands.
This is somewhat low hanging fruit as Obama delayed parts he wanted to. Rand suggested it would come down to this weeks ago.
the system is not ready for primetime, if it goes live next week we can expect all manner of turmoil.
Waiting a year may provide time to work out some of the bugs for a less rocky kick-off.
I'd rather see CRs issued one at a time for specific programs and just neglect to offer a CR for ocare.