GOP split over healthcare law boosts threat of government shutdown (LA Times)

[pinto]

GOP split over healthcare law boosts threat of government shutdown

House conservatives are cool toward Republican leaders' proposal to pass a government spending plan without explicitly eliminating funds for President Obama's Affordable Care Act.

By Lisa Mascaro
September 11, 2013

WASHINGTON — In the midst of an international crisis, the prospect of a government shutdown intensified Wednesday as House conservatives balked at Republican leaders' efforts to pass a spending bill that did not explicitly eliminate funds for President Obama's healthcare law.

Conservatives denounced the leadership's plan as "hocus-pocus." They held firm on using the threat of shutting down the government as a lever to stop the debut of the law's online insurance marketplaces on Oct. 1. A vote planned for Thursday was abruptly canceled.

The current fiscal year ends Sept. 30. Congress has failed to pass any of the bills to fund government operations after that date. Unless both houses pass a spending bill by then, a host of government agencies will have to close.

White House aides say Obama would veto any bill that cuts off funds for the healthcare law. Many conservative strategists contend that Obama is bluffing and say Republicans should put him to the test. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and his allies fear that strategy would harm their party, much as a government shutdown did in the mid-1990s.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-congress-shutdown-20130912,0,3058414.story

[Thinkingabout]

1. Our finest do nothing bunch failing again to do their job. I watched Amash actually laughing this

Morning talking and it must have sounded so stupid to him even he laughed. We face a lot of challenges and one is dealing with Congress. They have lost their way. If they are so deluded to think shutting down the government shows strength then they need to resign and get real people there. Just useless.

[pinto]

2. Yeah. It's what 40 House bills to defund the ACA at this point? A bill Congress approved.

I'd call it simple obstructionism. Blatant obstructionism. Not reasoned discussions / debate / votes. And it's about Obama, in large part. Not the American public nor their job to help run the federal operations.

[Thinkingabout]

3. If we can be a little stronger, wait a little longer and when the sign up period comes and it is

Proven American citizens wants health insurance, sign up quickly and see the benefits of having health care the GOP will not be able to keep their lies going. Their 41 attempts of repealing a popular
bill and their lies turning out to be a lie.

[King_Klonopin]

5. That's why they are desperate to kill it "in the crib"

Kill it now! Otherwise, they know it will be successful.

If there were no such thing as Medicare right now, and the
Dems passed a Bill creating Medicare today, the response
from the GOP would be the same -- kill it NOW! (which was
the response back in the 60's) So, they saturation-bomb
the media with endless lies and propaganda to sway the
public to think it's failing before it has even begun.

Once it takes root (like medicare) it will become obvious that it
is beneficial and that all the GOP criticism was just pure bullshit lies.

They know.

[cstanleytech]

4. Speaking of those 40+ votes I really hope the dems hammer the hell out of the republicans

acting like a needle stuck on a record over it because they deserve to be kicked out of office, each and every sob who voted aye to it after the 2nd time.