DistrictDeacon
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Voting to defund Obamacare or avoiding a shutdown?
They're going to (or at least appear to) try like the dickens to do both. In the end they'll most likely just shoot themselves in the foot.
Obama will blink and they know it.
On Obamacare? No. Obama has the upper hand here.
I think if the Pubs could actually defund or otherwise overturn Obamacare they'd pay a tremendous political price in the end. For all the posturing the leadership has to do for the nutjobs I think they probably understand this.
If they don't like "Obamacare" they should amend the law to their liking...not pretend to want to destroy it. But they have to offer something arguably better. Something that offers better actual reformation of our mucked up healthcare system.
It's easier just to vote to defund it than make it better.
As is usually the case with Republicans, they will want both. Thanks to its Tea Party Overlords, compromise has become a dirty word in the Republicans Party. The problem is that they can't have both. If they add defunding ACA to a bill to keep the government running, the Senate will simply strip that part out of the bill and send it back to them....unless the Senate Republicans decide to block everything there first. In either case, the Republicans only have one option in the end: Pass a clean bill to keep the government running or be blamed for shutting it down.
And that in a nutshell is the Republicans' biggest problem. Obamacare sucks. Even Democrats know it. But all the Pubs want to do is play games and give lip service to defunding or repealing it. They would be much more credible if they were to propose a better solution. Although it's probably to late now for that.
Pubs want to ride Obamacare into a 3 piece majority at which time they could defund it. The don't want to amend it they want to use it for political pressure that they believe will turn votes their way. I don't know if but will work but that is the plan and the worse Obamacare performs the better for pubs. Turns out it was a pretty crappy law so their main job is to not save it from itself.
Pubs are deathly afraid people will like ACA once it's implemented. Once that happens people will start asking what the Pubs were doing for the past five years.
It seems like there's some truth to this. Pubs are desperate to win and in order to do so will lie and distort and fear monger. Obamacare is the greatest scourge imaginable and must be defeated or else...I mean for crying out lout it's OBAMAcare!!!! It's GOVERNMENT (that evil) DOING something (which is of course always bad unless it involves putting people in jail or bombing people somewhere).
Jesus. We've enough real troubles that are in need of solutions. Work on that shit please and maybe more people will take you seriously and even vote for you.