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    Pat Buchanan: Fix Bayonets! Obamacare is not coming out of this House alive

    Fix Bayonets!

    Pat Buchanan | Sep 27, 2013



    After his narrow defeat by Gerald Ford at the Kansas City convention in 1976, Ronald Reagan was seen as a has-been.
    Came the Carter-Torrijos treaties of 1977, however, which gave away the Panama Canal, and the old cowboy strapped on his guns:

    "We bought it. We paid for it. It's ours. And we're gonna keep it."

    America loved it. Bill Buckley said we must recognize reality and transfer the canal. GOP Senate leader Howard Baker was the toast of the city as he led 16 Republicans to vote with Jimmy Carter. The treaties were approved.

    Reagan's consolation prize? The presidency of the United States.

    Voters in New Hampshire in 1980, remembering his lonely stand, rewarded Reagan with a decisive victory over George H. W. Bush, who had defeated Reagan in Iowa. When Howard Baker came in, he was greeted as "Panama Howie," and did not survive the primary.

    The Republican war over whether to bow to the seemingly inevitable and fund Obamacare is a Panama Canal issue. How one votes here may decisively affect one's career.

    Ted Cruz may have, as Richard Nixon used to say, "broken his pick" in the Republican caucus. Yet, on Obamacare, his analysis is right, his instincts are right, his disposition to fight is right.

    These are more important matters than the news that he is out of the running for the Mr. Congeniality award on Capitol Hill.

    If Obamacare is funded, the subsidies starting in January will constitute a morphine drip from which America's health care system will not recover. If not stopped now, Obamacare is forever.

    Senate Republicans should be asking themselves why Cruz and Rand Paul, two newcomers to the Senate of decidedly different temperaments, are being talked of as credible candidates in the presidential primaries of 2016?

    Answer: Both are clear in their convictions, unapologetic about them, and willing to break some china to achieve them. And that part of America upon which the GOP depends most is increasingly frustrated and angry with those who run the national party.

    Americans don't want a dignified surrender on Obamacare. They want someone to drive a stake through Obamacare.

    And the question that is going to be answered in coming weeks is: Is the GOP willing to shove its whole stack into the middle of the table, for a showdown over Obamacare? Or will the House GOP in the end cast the decisive vote to make Obamacare permanent?

    For, as columnist Terry Jeffrey writes, "[M]ake no mistake. If Obamacare is funded and implemented it will be because Republican members of Congress decided to do it."

    As Terry notes, Congress has absolute power over the public purse. Article 1 of the Constitution says, "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

    The law authorizing President Obama to spend more money for Obamacare expires Sept. 30. If the House refuses to vote for any bill that contains new Obamacare funding, Obamacare is dead.

    Thus the Republican House controls the fate of Obamacare.

    But if we don't fund Obamacare, comes the Republican wail, Harry Reid will let the government shut down, the American people will blame us, and all of our pundits say we can't win this fight.

    For sure you cannot win if you do not fight.

    But if a Democratic Senate refuses to pass the House-passed continuing resolution funding the government, because Obamacare is not in the bill, who is shutting down the government?

    If Obama vetoes any continuing resolution funding the government that does not contain Obamacare, who is shutting down the government then?

    Who is putting the U.S. economy at risk to protect a bollixed program the American people do not want and Congress would never approve if they voted on it today?

    What House Republicans have lacked is not courage, but a political and communications strategy.

    Having provided a continuing resolution to fund the government, except Obamacare, the House should next begin passing CRs -- one for each department. A CR to fund defense and veterans affairs. A CR to fund State, the CIA and Homeland Security. A CR for justice, transportation, energy, etc. One every day.

    Would Harry Reid refuse to fund the U.S. Army and Navy unless John Boehner's House stuffs Obamacare into the defense budget?

    Do Republicans really feel incapable of winning this argument?

    Are Republicans so tongue-tied they cannot convince America of the truth: They have already voted to fund the government.

    If Republicans capitulate and lose this battle, and this unwanted mess passes into law, there is something deeply wrong with the party.

    Two weeks ago, a brave Congress, listening to America, stood up and told Obama: Your red lines be damned; we're not voting for war on Syria.

    Now House Republicans need to tell the country: Come hell or high water, we're not voting to fund Obamacare. We will pass a CR on everything else in the budget, but Obamacare is not coming out of this House alive.

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    Telemarketing Calls and Spam Mail to Skyrocket Under Obamacare

    Taxpayer-funded workers are paid based on the number of Americans they enroll in gov’t health program

    Kit Daniels
    Infowars.com
    September 26, 2013

    Under Obamacare, unsolicited sales calls and spam mail will increase exponentially as taxpayer-funded workers are paid based on the number of Americans they can enroll into the government health program.
    Junk mail delivered to your door.
    Credit: Ant Jackson via Flickr

    The government is granting non-profit organizations millions of dollars to hire Obamacare “Navigators” and “Assisters” who will guide Americans in the federally-sponsored insurance exchanges.
    In a letter to HHS, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce mentioned that one Navigator grant recipient promised to make 240,000 ‘robocalls’ to encourage people to enroll in Obamacare.
    Typically used in telemarketing, robocalls deliver a recorded message to random phone numbers in a process well-described as “robotic spam.”
    Telemarketing by Navigators and Assisters has been labeled “inappropriate” by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yet the agency has not informed Congress or the American people about “any measures it has taken to prevent inappropriate marketing practices,” according to the latest staff report by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
    This report also acknowledged that in some states, Navigators and Assisters are paid based on the amount of Americans they enroll into Obamacare, effectively turning them into taxpayer-funded salespeople who work on commission.
    There is no doubt that this Obamacare “sales team” will want to reach as many Americans as possible and telemarketing will skyrocket as a result.
    Obamacare sales calls are already taking place.
    A member of the AR-15 message board, LurchAddams, said that earlier this month, a telemarketer called him trying to reach his pet dog to “inform” him about his new health care options under Obamacare.
    “Every time I place an order online, subscribe to a magazine, or anything that I fear is going to put me on a junk mailing or calling list, I give them my dog’s first name,” he said. “My dog gets all kinds of junk mail and telemarketing calls.”
    When LurchAddams told the telemarketer that “Fido” had no health insurance, the Obamacare “sales representative” responded by saying that under Obamacare, there would be plenty of opportunities for Fido to receive the health insurance he needs.
    Unfortunately it appears that LurchAddams is one of the first of millions who will receive unsolicited phone calls and spam mail encouraging them to “sign up now to receive the best deals” of Obamacare.
    This article was posted: Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 2:51 pm
    Tags: domestic news, healthcare

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