"ObamaCare Checkup: Can We Pull the Plug on Dr. Obamastein's Monster?"



An ObamaCare checkup - what's the health of the health care law? Is there a chance that congressional action can pull the plug on Obamastein's monster?

We are fast approaching a moment of truth for congressional Republicans who are fighting to stop ObamaCare, especially for those establishment GOPers who claim they want to put an end to Obama's health care takeover scheme.

The defund strategy, championed largely by Senators Cruz of Texas and Lee of Utah, is showing signs of life. A rather impressive group of their compatriots in the House is taking a stand. Forty-three conservative Republicans in the House are endorsing a stopgap spending bill that would fund the federal government, while defunding ObamaCare for a year.

It's the kind of hardline, backboned approach that conservatives have long been pushing - a strategy to at least block the rampage of Obamastein's monster. And the kind of approach that gives Boehner and company serious heartburn. The Speaker is indicating he will now have trouble getting any spending bill through the House and over to the Senate in time to avert a government shutdown.

Government shutdown?! Couldn't that give Republicans fits in the upcoming elections? Wouldn't Democrats be able to call them names and blame them for all sorts of mean and nasty consequences of a shutdown? Well, there are at least some GOP lawmakers who believe that a shutdown - IF it occurred - is far preferable to the ObamaCare monster gaining strength and speed come October first.

For Democrats supporting ObamaCare, there's a different sort of monster rearing its ugly head...the nation's largest labor federation officially going on record as highly critical - highly critical - of the health care law it once supported. Despite reported pressure from the White House to keep its collective mouth shut, the AFL-CIO has approved a resolution saying that ObamaCare is bad medicine for its union membership. As you may know, this isn't the first time that unions have come out, publicly, against O-care.

And you might not be keenly aware of them, but there are significant legal challenges to ObamaCare still moving through the courts. Yes, the Supreme Court did rule the law constitutional - after going through some contortions of interpretation to get to that ruling. But there are still a handful of key anti-ObamaCare cases moving through lower courts, with dozens of other lawsuits pending.

And to wrap up our ObamaCare checkup, we put on the examining table a really sick statement from White House spokeskid Jay Carney. He actually had the nerve to tell reporters that the administration "will not accept anything that delays or defunds ObamaCare." Now that might just invite a diagnosis of mental illness for Carney to say that Obama will not accept delay when the White House itself has been behind at least five major delays.

Question! Is this defiant declaration about ObamaCare from the White House as a meaningful, as rock-solid, as take-it-to-the-bank reliable as Obama's Syria policy? And in the churning wake of team Obama's mad scramble to save face on Syria, is there an opening, a presidential vulnerability, a real chance for principled Republicans to move against ObamaCare with even greater confidence of success?


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