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What’s the End Game for Obamacare?
Townhall.com ^ | August 5, 2013 | Dan Holler

Posted on 08/05/2013 9:38:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

>Speaking “on the condition of anonymity,” a Republican lawmaker told one Capitol Hill newspaper last week that conservatives pushing to stop the implementation of Obamacare had “no plan B.”

Before diving into the substance of the criticism, let’s spend a minute on how that criticism was delivered. Folks in Washington love speaking “on the condition of anonymity.” In a meandering profile of NBC News’s Luke Russert, a reporter for the liberal New Republic wrote, “Fellow reporters related the meanest anecdotes they could think of—‘but not for attribution, OK?’”

For one reason or another, these reporters have decided criticizing Russert wasn’t a savvy career move. From that perspective, you can understand why this GOP lawmaker would not want to publicly denounce a strategy that has the support of folks like Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL). You can imagine this lawmaker running into trouble back home after saying Cruz, Lee, Heritage Action and the others have “a laudable goal,” but I ain’t gonna help them fight.

If Republican lawmakers are not willing to fight the implementation of Obamacare by actively defunding the law, they must have another plan to stop it, right? I posed variations of this question to numerous folks over the past week and the answer was nearly unanimous: stunning silence.

Yesterday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) cautioned against “swinging for fences” and offered “there are more effective ways…we think that we can do better by delaying this law.”

Delay. Defund. Repeal. Halt. Block. Stop.

Absent a legislative strategy, those are just words. In a must read piece, Heritage Action’s Russ Vought explained the political strategy:

“It is wonderful that Congressmen support repealing Obamacare, but it’s not enough. The House has had numerous votes to repeal Obamacare, but the chances of statutorily repealing the law decreased once President Obama won a second term. Conservatives cannot wait another three-and-a-half years to begin dismantling Obamacare; they need to leverage current opportunities to defund Obamacare on ‘must-pass’ spending bills.”

He also explained, contrary to the assertions of many people who should know better, the implementation of Obamacare could be stopped on a spending bill:

“Defunding Obamacare means attaching a legislative rider to a ‘must pass’ bill (debt limit, annual spending bill, etc.) that 1) prohibits any funds from being spent on any activities to implement or enforce Obamacare; 2) rescinds any unspent balances that have already been appropriated for implementation; and 3) turns off the exchange subsidy and new Medicaid spending that are on auto-pilot.”

Senator Cruz and Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) have introduced legislation that would accomplish those goals. If that is swinging for the fences, then sign me up because fighting to preserve the status quo isn’t going to inspire the American people or save the country.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what some are advocating – let’s wait until 2017. Charles Krauthammer wrote, “You can’t govern from one house of Congress. You need to win back the Senate and then the presidency.”

Let’s flip Washington’s conventional wisdom upside down.

Instead of proclaiming with certainty that President Obama would never sign a bill that harmed his signature legislative accomplishment, imagine the pundits proclaiming that House Republicans would never pass a bill that funds a law they were elected to reverse.

Right now, however, almost no one in Washington – and more importantly no one outside of Washington – believes House Republicans are willing to mount a massive assault against the implementation of Obamacare. Until they do, they’ll be on the outside looking in.

Over August, Heritage Action will be traveling across the country to make the case against Obamacare. The Washington Post noted “Democrat-aligned groups already are responding aggressively.” They are preparing to “go on the offensive” over August, “deploy[ing] every tool and tactic available” to defend Obamacare and put Republicans on the defense.

Obama’s allies understand the fight is now. Will our allies wake up before it’s too late?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clowardpiven; democrats; obama; obamacare; socialisthealthcare
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1 posted on 08/05/2013 9:38:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
What’s the End Game for Obamacare?

Single Payer....= CLOWARD-PIVEN!!!

2 posted on 08/05/2013 9:40:18 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin
a Republican lawmaker told one Capitol Hill newspaper last week that conservatives pushing to stop the implementation of Obamacare had “no plan B.”

The signers of the Declaration of Independence had "no Plan B" either.

3 posted on 08/05/2013 9:43:20 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: Don Corleone

You are exactly correct. The whole purpose and intent behind Obamacare was to make private health insurance prohibitively expensive and drive everyone eventually into a single payer government run healthcare system.


4 posted on 08/05/2013 9:44:23 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Kaslin

The GOP end game is to get fully behind it and make sure it is completely implemented.


5 posted on 08/05/2013 9:44:46 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Kaslin

A National Healthcare System like Britain’s, paid for by General Tax Revenue. It will break this country into oblivion.

They like to say “single-payer” systems because that sounds so innocuous. What it really means is that every frigging tax payer who actually PAYs real, net taxes is gonna foot the bill for this abortion.


6 posted on 08/05/2013 9:45:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Kaslin
America.... bankrupt, weak and vulnerable.

RIPE for our enemies.... one inch at a time!

7 posted on 08/05/2013 9:45:26 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Kaslin

What’s the End Game for Obamacare?

Extermination of those who don’t fit in.


8 posted on 08/05/2013 9:46:29 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Kaslin

9 posted on 08/05/2013 9:46:29 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Where's my pressure cooker backpack wmd ricin laced al qaeda terrorist BASSELOPE?)
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To: Don Corleone
"Single Payer....= CLOWARD-PIVEN!!!"

Bring it on, let it burn. If, after five years of the Obammunist and several decades of increasing statism,, we as a nation haven't pulled our collective head out of our collective a**, then it's going to take a complete collapse to wake us up. The sooner we get there, the sooner we can get busy cleaning up the mess and rebuilding our Republic. Let it burn.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

10 posted on 08/05/2013 9:48:27 AM PDT by wku man (Amnesty? No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTUQ8yOI2c)
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To: Noumenon

Actually, it is a stepwise approach to have data/location/history of every man, woman, and child who is an American. The IRS has records on anyone who files a tax return. But now the IRS will have a file on every single registered American citizen. THAT is the purpose of Obamaroidcare. The elimination of ‘undesirables’ will follow as surely as day follows night and night follows day.


11 posted on 08/05/2013 9:50:17 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN

This is the Obamunist version of Aktion T4. We all know where that went.

There is only one way to stop them.


12 posted on 08/05/2013 9:54:18 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Personally, I think the whole purpose behind 0bamacare is much more perverse. The goal is to control everything we do by blackmailing us through the carrot of “health care”. Those who vote/donate/campaign for the dems will possibly receive actual health care. Those who are not DNC voters will possibly only receive health care if they are still in a position to pay taxes. Once a non-DNC voting person crosses from a net payer to the government to a net receiver, no health care will be available. JMHO


13 posted on 08/05/2013 9:57:06 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Kaslin

What end game? The public is too anesthetized to care. But when the big premiums and/or taxes/penalties hit the productive half of the country there will be an outcry.

Let’s hope that Republicans are in control when that happens.

Expect a big fight. 0bamacare is a massive transfer of money from producers to slackers who vote democrat. They won’t let go of the freebies without a lot of resistance.


14 posted on 08/05/2013 10:00:17 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There's no autocorrect for stupidity.)
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To: Kaslin

Turn us over the a One World Government.


15 posted on 08/05/2013 10:05:50 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Noumenon

Yup ... so I am preparing for the collapse of the society. Preppers, for the most part, have not realized yet that the armor being purchased and staged around the country is destined for the confiscation runs, gathering up food, etc. to feed the slug dependents in the cities. But the storm troopers have to exit the armor in order to load their trucks ...


16 posted on 08/05/2013 10:05:57 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Don Corleone
Single Payer....= CLOWARD-PIVEN!!!

You beat me to it. Exactly what I was going to post.

17 posted on 08/05/2013 10:09:37 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: Kaslin
The end game? Simple. When fully implemented the goal is to require a member of the great unwashed (that's *us*,boys and girls) to know...and perhaps even *donate* to...a politician in order to get a heart operation or to see a cancer specialist.
18 posted on 08/05/2013 10:10:00 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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To: MHGinTN

Every can has its opener. ‘nuff said.


19 posted on 08/05/2013 10:12:34 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Kaslin

PURGES!.... already the military is being purged..
The federal givernment has been being purged since the Clintoon’s..

The FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, and all manner of other agencys have been being purged for decades..

Voting died on Nov 6th 2012.. officially.. but it probably really died long before that.. The voting machines and even “the mechanism” has been broken for a long time..

AND damned near all conservatives and Rinos refuse to admit it...
Nov 6th 2012 showed up many “mistakes” of voter fraud.. that proved it..
Be assured the corrupt forces NOTICED IT TOO.. and will take steps to insure the public will not notice it in the future..

Voting it seems has been Kabuki theater for a good while now..
Even the republican primarys were RIGGED..

to Wit; Conservatives REJECTED harshly ALL conservative candidates.. and CHOSE a known famous collaborator with DEMOCRATS.. that “IS” if vote counts can be believed..

Republicans of all stripes STILL REFUSE to admit the scope and wondrous ruse of it all..
The JUNTA that pulled this off is brilliant..

A.K.A>- make them vote for a liberal- AND LIKE IT..


20 posted on 08/05/2013 10:13:41 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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