The House may move to delay Obamacare’s individual mandate
I think it is quite certain that Mike Lee and Ted Cruz are going to fall short in their effort to defund Obamacare as part of the continuing resolution, due in part, to the timidness of the Republican leadership for they are afraid to take on Barack Obama and the Democrats on this issue.
At this point I am note sure if their timidness on this issue comes from the media reports that Republicans will take the blame for a government shut down, or whether Barack Obama has something on the Republican leadership that he is holding over their heads. Remember, Barack Obama is a master of dirty politics; this is how he won his Illinois Senate seat and he was indiscriminate toward all his opponents, both Democrats and Republicans alike, and I wouldn’t put it past him today. But that is not the subject of this post.
With the likelihood that the Obamacare funding will be put back into the bill and sent back to the House it appears as if the Republicans are readying a Plan B.
The new plan being floated would include funding both the government and Obamacare with one caveat–it would delay the individual mandate for one year.
If the effort to defund Obamacare fails, and I think that is all but certain, there is no way the Republicans are going to shut down the government so this might be the next best option. It isn’t optimal, but it may be the best we can do at this point.
Barack Obama has already delayed the employer mandate for one year but he has been unwilling to provide the same relief for individuals, which is interesting because I thought he promised to fight for the Middle Class over the moneyed classes.
If the House decides to take this route it would push the issue right back to the Democrats and force them to decide between shutting down the government over a bill which funds both the government and Obamacare, which is what they supposedly want, or accepting the bill as written and thusly give the same break to Middle Class America they already provided for their corporate buddies.
I do not see how the Democrats could possibly turn this deal down and it would buy us a little time in order to regroup and fight again, if the Republican leadership is up to it…..
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Thanks again!
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You’re welcome.
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If, and that’s a very big if, the Republican leadership has the backbone to stand their ground, at least partially, then maybe the deal you mention can stall the mandate and give us time to work out how to repeal the entire law. I’m just not sure the monkeys in charge have that much spine.
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I am with you Larry, I really do not think the Republicans have the spine or the will to fight this.
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Any republican proposals have the proverbial snowball’s chance. This exercise in futility has has shown we have a congress full of emporers with no clothes. Once again self preservation and chicken shitness has ruled the day when republicans of both houses could have made a statement heard across the nation.
Instead they, with so few exceptions , will go along to get along; Obama’s plan to morph the middle class into a dependency class continues to roll down the track. We should thank those select R representatives and seven R senators who have a backbone.
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Yeah, there really is no chance the Republicans will get anything they want for they are not really willing to fight for it. Meanwhile Obamacare gets closer and closer to full implementation and we are the ones who will pay the price. They feel no desperation for they will not be harmed in any way by this bill’s implementation.
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I have no hope that our current representation in D.C will actually do their JOB of carrying out the will of the People.
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I am with you 100% on that!
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I know this is off topic here, but I watched most of Ted Cruz, well, off and on thru the night (I do not sleep a lot), in general, he did a kick ass job, but Harry Reid, dismissed it the next morning as a “waste of time”. What pisses me off is John McCain! Well, he would piss anyone off, but, me, I so dislike that man (term used lightly). He once again tried to play it off that we have a democracy while he was trashing Cruz for what he was doing. Why is it that Democrats (I put him in that category, he is NOT a Republican in any sense of the word) always call our country a DEMOCRACY? I thought I would brush us up on the difference in case anyone stops by here and does not KNOW the difference:
http://www.garymcleod.org/republic.htm
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How can I put this gently? John McCain and Peter King are douche bags! Okay, I guess that wasn’t gently but these two individuals are a disgrace to the office they hold!
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One more point, IF we ARE in a democracy (not), and the high percentage of people that do not want Obama Care have spoken and do not want it, shouldn’t the majority rule (under McCains thought process) and we throw it out and stomp the hell out of it? I guess what makes me mad is that they throw out words and assign different meanings to them to fit what they are doing.
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You would think so Lou but apparently you would be wrong because there are not many in the Congress who give a damn what the American people want, that much is becoming all too clear.
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