The Moderate Republicans are finally revolting.
A collection of centrist House Republicans are threatening to torpedo Boehner’s plan to send the Senate a third continuing resolution that attacks Obamacare, National Review reports.
Peter King, a leader of the group:
“If Obamacare is as bad as we say it’s going to be, then we should pick up a lot of seats in the next election and we should win the presidency in 2016,” King said Monday. “This idea of going through the side door to take something you lost through the front door—to me, it’s wrong.”
No fucking shit. But the reason why Speaker Joe McCarthy, er ah, I mean Calgary, no I mean Texas Senator Ted Cruz and all his teabag radicals have been freaking out this past year since they lost the 2012 election in a relative landslide is because they know Obamacare is going to work, and they know once it works, it will never be repealed, just like Medicare, just like Social Security. And that is the way our democracy is supposed to work. A party proposes something, wins a national election, enacts their policies that they were elected to enact through the proper constitutional process, and then faces the people gain for their verdict. Guess what? That election was held. Guess what the verdict was. A reelected President with over 330 electoral votes, with over 51% of the vote. Democrats in the Senate gained two seats. Democrats in the House gained 10 seats, and won the popular vote in all House Districts by 2 million votes. So, Obamacare will go into affect tomorrow and nothing will stop it. Nothing. If it fails, then Peter King is right. The Republicans will have their issue to run on in 2014 and 2016. And they might win those elections. And that is the way this is supposed to work.
Peter King is a moderate now?
Republicans in Congress are lawless anarchist, engaging in kamikaze politics, aimed at undermining and destroying our constitutional democracy based on the rule of law.
OBAMACARE is the law of the land. It must be obeyed and implemented.
Republicans still do not get it. They can NEVER WIN against President Barack Obama, neither in the polls, nor in the Supreme Court, and certainly not with the public. Jim DeMint knows that, hence his resignation from the Senate, having tried every tactic possible to attempt to stop President Obama from carrying out his lawful and rightful agenda.
When Democrats controlled both the Senate and the House, with George W Bush as President, they did not like TARP. Ideologically, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid did not want to bail out the banks. But they silenced their personal and Party ideology, and because of their love and loyalty for America, they put their country first. And with President Obama ‘saved’ America from falling into a deep depression.
Now we have a group of Republican Senators and House politicians who stand for nothing noble. They have neither love nor loyalty for America. They have voted against every job creating policy, that they themselves used to support to make ‘Obama a one term President’. They did not succeed. And still they continue to do the same old things, again and again.
Albert Einstein said that “Insanity is doing the same things over and over again, and expecting different results.” The sane things for Republicans in the Senate and House to do are to put America first, swallow their pride, and begin to work with the Democrats and President Obama for the good and welfare of all Americans, but especially the poor, children, jobless, elderly, and the disabled.
Looks like the revolt fizzled. At least for now, after the first vote today.
The conservative Republicans have always been revolting. (,,,get it?)
1/2 hour ago…
Cruz aid floats.. Boeher about to fold rumor:
“Hearing Boehner will offer clean #CR vote after Reid refuses, once again, 2 compromise. #shutdown #MakeDCListen
8:37 PM – 30 Sep 2013 from Washington, DC, United States”
Could be just Cruz trying to yank Boner’s chain.
And down it goes. Congratulations Tea Party.
Too bad you took the wrong hostage…
BREAKING: Democrats don’t cave
If the Teabaggers are so afraid of being primaryed then the moderate Repuk’s if you can find one they should primary them.
I don’t think teabags are worried about primaries. It is the company-men, life long moderates that are worried. Think of the eminence gris Orrin Hatch. He should be on a victory lap now, but the teabags have him by the balls.
DD wrote:
No, actually. Rather, we know that it will fail, but will, if not taken down now, be in existence long enough to establish the principle that the federal government is ultimately responsible for your health care coverage, and when Obaminablecare fails, the “answer” will be, “Well, see, we tried it the ‘conservative’ way, using the existing private insurance system, and it didn’t work, so single-payer is all that’s left.” The idea of the government not seeing to it that everybody is covered will simply be off the table.
It works in Massachusetts — like we keep telling you — there isn’t much reason for it to not work every place else. Besides the efforts of teajadis to sabotage it.
This time, the elephant must go down. And if possible, it must be so wounded it does not get up for a long time to come.
Andrew Sullivan says Muerta! to the GOP.
It will fail just like Medicare and Social Security. lol.
Sullivan nails it. Thanks for that link Cassandra. Everyone should read the whole thing, but here is a glimpse:
I don’t regard the President as illegitimate: he was elected, twice, by the Electoral College, as specified in the Constitution, and the electors were chosen to represent their states by the votes of the people. That’s how we define legitimacy in this country.
But the fact that he was legitimately elected does not mean that he’s right, or a good President.