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Top Republicans Refuse to Sign Pledge to De-Fund Obamacare


September 10, 2013 - 5:55 PM

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(CNSNews.com) -- The Senate Conservatives Fund website shows that 1.2 million people have signed a pledge to defund the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. But a number of top Republicans apparently have refused to sign the pledge, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.).
No Republicans, in either the Senate or the House, voted to pass Obamacare, which became law in March 2010.
The senators’ website, which also features a stopwatch counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the end of the fiscal year and a proposed continuing resolution to keep the government funded – names the 11 Republican Senators who "won't pledge" to sign the petition.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Aside from McConnell, McCain, and Graham, the other Republican Senators who "won't pledge" to sign are Richard Shelby (Ala.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Orin Hatch (Utah).
The 13 Republican Senators who have signed the pledge are Mike Lee (Utah), Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Jim Risch (Idaho), Pat Roberts (Kan.), David Vitter (La.), Deb Fischer (Neb.), Jeff Chiesa (N.J.), Jim Inhofe (Okla.), John Thune (S.D.) and Mike Enzi (Wyo.)
The remaining Republican Senators are listed as not having signed the pledge as opposed to those who have said they will not sign it.
The senators in support of defunding Obamacare have said they will vote for a continuing resolution that will fund government operations but not the health care law.



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Awake yet????? Here is a good start for your "voting out" list!!!!

House postpones Obamacare vote; politicians running scared?

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Dr. Eowyn

Robert Romano writes for Netrightdaily.com, Sept. 12, 2013:
America’s grassroots awakens on Syria, Obamacare

In the face of withering public support for its agenda, the Washington, D.C. establishment was dealt two critical blows this week.
The first came when President Barack Obama asked Congress to postpone indefinitely plans for a Sept. 11 vote on military force in Syria. In his Sept. 10 speech, he began making the case for war against the Assad regime, but then placed his faith in a diplomatic solution proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Under the plan, Syria supposedly would surrender its chemical weapons stocks to the so-called “international community.” No word yet on how such an agreement might be enforced.
But it is very plain that the reason for the postponement was not Putin’s grand proposal per se, but the overwhelming public opposition to going to war right now. The vote was going to fail — miserably.
The second blow came as House leaders then postponed plans to vote on a continuing resolution funding the federal government for Fiscal Year 2014 until at least next week. Why? Likely, they didn’t have the votes for that, either.
On the right, free market and limited government groups oppose any resolution that allows funding for Obamacare to go into effect. On the left, organizations oppose it because it partially rolls back defense sequestration cuts and fails to do away with nondefense cuts.
Such a situation leaves House Republican leaders in a bind. Any effort to do away fully with nondefense sequestration, as Democrats are demanding, would cost even more Republican support. It would also create yet another example where House Speaker John Boehner could only find the votes to pass a continuing resolution with Nancy Pelosi’s help.
The sequester cuts to discretionary spending came about in return for the $2.1 trillion increase of the debt ceiling in August 2011.
In the meantime, Republican leaders remain opposed to any approach that would attempt to defund the health care law by attaching language directly to the continuing resolution. They fear a government shutdown.
One workaround they might attempt is an honest up-or-down vote on an amendment to the continuing resolution to defund Obamacare.

The deal would be: if conservatives can get a majority on board for defund, the House will stick with it, even if it results in a government shutdown. If not, then conservatives would be obliged to vote for the continuing resolution, even if it results in Obamacare being funded.
Such an approach however would put both the liberal and conservative wings of the GOP into tough spots. For northeastern Republicans in blue states, they would be required to openly cast votes against defunding Obamacare, which could spark primary challenges or cost them their seats in the general election.
For conservatives, losing a vote on defunding Obamacare and then subsequently voting for a continuing resolution that funds it likely would have the same result. The grassroots would be dispirited and blame them for selling out on the issue and letting the law go into effect.
Both sides of the issue might look to Colorado, where two state legislators were successfully recalled after voting to ban guns, as to what can happen when the will of the electorate is defied.
To avert these outcomes, House leadership might instead try actually attaching defunding language to the continuing resolution, and then using the ensuing government shutdown to achieve concessions.Sequester, after all, was a concession that resulted from the debt ceiling standoff. Maybe a standoff would work again.
As for Obama and his quest to go to war, he’s now placed all his chips on Putin and the United Nations to resolve the crisis in Syria. If weeks and months go by and Syria has not been disarmed, more than likely the weapons will have been transferred somewhere else. Obama’s policy will have failed.
That is, if the weapons have not already been transferred, as Syrian rebels are now claiming they were moved to Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist organization. Many reports a decade ago speculated that Saddam Hussein’s chemical and biological weapons were transferred to Syria.
Assuming Obama ever gets any good intelligence on the matter, we suppose then he’ll be asking for authorization to use military force in Lebanon, too. Although such an effort would appear likely to have even less support than an adventure in Syria would.
For now, expect the public’s discontent with the D.C. establishment to only mount.
Robert Romano is the senior editor of Americans for Limited Government.
H/t Robert K. Wilcox!
~Eowyn
Dr. Eowyn is the Editor of Fellowship of the Minds and a regular contributor to The D.C. Clothesline.



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(CNSNews.com) -- The Senate Conservatives Fund website shows that 1.2 million people have signed a pledge to defund the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. But a number of top Republicans apparently have refused to sign the pledge, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.).

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