Should the GOP's Shutdown Happen - I hope So!

GOP senator: We'll shut down government to kill Obamacare

by Joan McCarter
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) must be having a big ol' sad that he can't be in the House voting to repeal Obamacare every other week. So he's getting in on the act, and one-upping the House. He's not just willing to destroy Obamacare, he's ready to take down the whole government to kill the law.

Speaking on Fox News, Lee said Republicans determined that refusing to fund Obamacare was the "last stop" before the individual mandate and the law's health insurance exchanges are set to go into effect at the beginning of next year.
“Congress of course has to pass a law to continue funding government—lately we’ve been doing that through a funding mechanism called a continuing resolution," Lee said. "If Republicans in both houses simply refuse to vote for any continuing resolution that contains further funding for further enforcement of Obamacare, we can stop it. We can stop the individual mandate from going into effect.”
Lee added that his effort, which he said was backed by "13 or 14" Senate Republicans and a host of House Republicans, wouldn't target popular Obamacare provisions that already had gone into effect, like a measure that allows children to remain on their parents' health insurance until the age of 26.​

Hell, what's one more hostage? We've got the budget, we've got the debt ceiling, and now we've got the mechanism Congress has had to use to keep the federal government's lights on—the continuing resolution. It's sort of shocking that they didn't already get there: It is the surest way to finish the job they've started and to reach their ultimate goal of destroying the federal government.
All because a lot more people will now be able to get more affordable health insurance.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...l-shut-down-government-to-kill-nbsp-Obamacare

 

Yep, they don't get the government they want so they'll make it insolvent. Good plan. I hope they enjoy the riots that'll come soon after as more and more people get desperate.

Isn't that the republican way of making people do things though, by making them desperate? You know: "Hey, old person, you need to work! Get out of your wheelchair, you lazy bum!"

 

You’re Not Conservative Enough

It's a common refrain among some Republican elites: the GOP is rejecting conservatism. Unfortunately, this matters—the hard right is where the enthusiasm is, writes Jamelle Bouie.
It’s become an article of faith among some Republican elites that the GOP doesn’t have an outreach problem, it has a turnout problem. During a recent interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News, for instance, Rush Limbaugh boiled down the argument to its core. It’s not that the GOP has an issue with racial minorities or that most voters—whites included—have no interest in its policies or approach. Its problem is that it isn’t conservative enough. “The people that sat home,” he explained, were “mostly white Republican voters,” who were “dissatisfied with the Republican Party’s rejection of conservatism.”

Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh advises the GOP to move further to the right. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Now, to most observers, the GOP has done everything but reject conservatism. Mitt Romney may have made his name as a moderate governor of Massachusetts, but his platform as Republican presidential nominee was a grab bag of proposals from the wish lists of conservative activists: large tax cuts for the wealthy, larger cuts to the social-safety net, prohibitions on abortion, opposition to same-sex marriage, and a hardline stance on immigration.
And indeed, in the nine months since Romney lost the presidential election, Republicans have only moved further to the right, falling deeper into the “fever” of intransigence and obstruction. Just this past week, for example, House Republicans had to give up on appropriating funds for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Why? Because their right-wing members demanded massive cuts to key programs, and less doctrinaire Republicans wouldn’t go along.

 

Rush's core audience is right-wing loons, so he stands to make more money if more people go further right. He's being self-serving, and doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself...just like the right-wingers of the republican party, which includes conservatives who don't call themselves "republicans", btw.

 

Had Obama drafted a healthcare bill in partnership with Republicans, we wouldn't be in this mess. Don't blame the Republicans for trying to protect America.

 

Here is what will happen if it is not stopped

http://news.yahoo.com/-harry-reid-says-obamacare-will-lead-to-single-payer-system--174601028.html

 

From what I understand, the plan is to FUND every part of GOVERNMENT except Obamacare.....therefore if a shutdown happens.........