House GOP to attach Obamacare delay to CR

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

House Republicans will vote to pass a one-year delay of Obamacare in exchange for funding the government, a plan that drastically increases the chances of a government shutdown this Tuesday.

The decision was announced by the GOP leadership in a closed meeting Saturday afternoon, according to sources present. Republicans will also pass a bill to fund U.S. troops if the government shuts down, according to GOP lawmakers. The House’s funding measure will keep the government open until mid December.

This puts Senate Democrats and the White House at loggerheads with House Republicans, a standoff that could lead to the first government shutdown since 1995.

...snip...

“We’ve had enough of the disunity in our party,” Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told the meeting of House Republicans Saturday afternoon. “The headlines are Republicans fighting Republicans. This will unite us. This protects the people who sent us here from Obamacare.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/house-gop-budget-strategy-government-shutdown-97496.html

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Like lemmings following each other over a cliff...

[marshall]

1. It's balls to the wall tme!

Full speed with the counter measure!

[warrior1]

2. kiss of death

and never going to pass


boner needs to get what little republicans will go with him and the democratic party in the house and send the clean cr to the senate,


fuck the hastert rule.

how many would he need, like 18 or 19?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. It's too late

Unless the Senate is able to generate and send over a clean bill stripped of that nonsense - even with a 1 or 2-week funding provision done as a unanimous consent (where they can pass it quickly because they can suspend all the rules - which will never happen with Cruze Missile in there to block anything "unanimous&quot , then it's a shutdown.

Edit to add that if Boner creates a clean bill as an "alternative" and votes on that (with House Democrats) by or on maybe Monday and the Senate can suspend rules and do a unanimous consent (which Cruze Missile would balk at) or maybe limit debate, it might squeak (assuming they "suspend" the midnight clock which has been done before), but it's doubtful.

We'll see.

[totodeinhere]

7. They know it won't pass. They are just going through the motions to please their extremist base

and protect themselves from primary challenges. To them that's more important than keeping the government running.

[Kablooie]

3. They want a year delay because then they can repeat this extortion this time next year.

We get another chance to see how much steel Obama has in his spine.

Up to now the amount has been questionable. (The Republican sequester budget is in full flower.)

[Thinkingabout]

4. The GOP bunch in the House are playing games, now they can run home and tell they tried, BS, it

Is a game with them, dumb as a post.

[Blue Idaho]

6. 2014 is an election year.

The TeaPublicans desperately need something to get their psychotic base to the polls. Re fighting ObamaCare hands them a platform to run on.

Just say no Senate, just say no Mr. president.

[red dog 1]

8. Thanks for posting, brooklynite

The Republican Party doesn't control the House, the Tea Party does.

[jwirr]

9. The president needs to stand against them even if there is a shut down. It is time to stop this

nonsense. Everyone knows it is the fault of the rethugs in Congress.

[loudsue]

10. Obama will compromise.

He keeps pushing back certain aspects of the health care bill, and has accommodated the republicans at every turn. He won't stop caving now.

[bhikkhu]

13. I hope you are wrong, but that is exactly what worries me

Having pushed the employer mandate back a year, I'm sure the repugs are looking at that as a sign of weakness and willingness to delay things overall. I think it would set a terrible precedent and set them up better, going into the next election, for a "victory" they can run on, pushing toward an eventual full repeal.

I think the stakes are high enough and the timing critical enough that the president won't give in, but I am worried.

[kiranon]

14. Worried also. President got no benefit from delaying the employer mandate.

He must hold firm and not give in to the repugs blackmail. The game they play is simple - ask for something outrageous so that something less outrageous sounds somewhat reasonable. It's not reasonable to delay the Affordable Care Act. To delay it will only encourage the repugs to continue their destructive, nondemocratic game. Elections won't mean anything if the Tea Party repugs can get what they want through blackmail.

[TomCADem]

15. So, Should The President Be More Like Teabaggers...

...never compromise at all? I think the key is to point out that Democrats have compromised a great deal, and that it is Republicans who are refusing to compromise, rather than to act like Republicans and attack Democrats for having compromised in the past.

[Cryptoad]

11. GOP is Focused!

http://vimeo.com/72748850

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Another corpulent teabagger.

[blkmusclmachine]

16. This was built into ACA/RomneyCare. The GOPee is just exploiting it.

Like everybody knew they would.

Maybe that was the plan all along.