House Continuing Resolution passes with funding for Obamacare
March 7, 2013 at 5:03 pm in News, ObamaCare by Tea Party Patriots 13 Comments
Yesterday, as the political world focused on Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) filibuster heard ‘round the world, the House passed its version of the Continuing Resolution to keep the government running until the end of the 2013 fiscal year (FY).
The legislation, which passed with strong bipartisan support, deserves a mix of reactions. It included sequestration, which is good. However, it offered flexibility to the military part of sequestration, which some reports say may have added $7 billion to the military side of things.
More harmful is the funding of the Affordable Care Act the House included in the bill. Even this, though, has a bright side. According to a source on Capitol Hill, none of President Obama’s FY 2013 appropriations requests for implementation of Obamacare were included, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not receive $1 billion for funding of the Act.
The source also said a cut of $305 million from FY2011 to FY2012 in the IRS’ budget as well as a freeze in all non-defense discretionary spending the House put into the CR), leaves all these agencies at last year’s funding levels and will leave many agencies without the ability to implement Obamacare.
This source’s claim is backed by a floor statement from Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), who in opposing the House CR said:
Specifically, this bill will delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act scheduled to begin enrolling participants in October. Without IT infrastructure to process enrollment and payments, verify eligibility and establish call centers, health insurance for millions of Americans would be further delayed.
In short, the House CR is a deeply flawed piece of legislation compared with what Tea Party activists know is necessary to stave off a fiscal crisis. However, by holding to sequestration and moving forward with some efforts to not implement Obamacare, the House deserves credit for not letting President Obama bully and intimidate it into delaying sequestration and/or allowing Obamacare to be fully implemented.
Get off it! the House deserves absolutely no credit, period! All of those socialist RINOs should be put out to pasture w/o any retirement. What do they really have to be proud of? They did not keep their oath of office. they did increase taxes and that is shameful, despicable and anti-Republican in both nature and action!
It is refreshing to hear a more balanced evaluation. I wish I could bring myself to believe that there was intelligent design to thwart Obama in some sophisticated manner. Republicans have few real men.
RIDICULOUS! We were promised that the House would DE-FUND Obamacare… NOT fund it for the rest of the year. For it to fail it must BE DE-funded NOW.
I left the Republican Party about 3 yrs ago and have NEVER looked back. I’m so sick of the lot of them. As far as I’m concerned the fact that they’ve done this once AGAIN proves what a pack of lying, manipulative politicians they are! Time to prepare for ridding the House of even MORE of the ‘old guard’ in the next mid-terms. If that doesn’t happen we are DONE FOR (we MUST do the same in the Senate).
Honorable John Boehner: You are supposed to work for American’s not for Obama. What the hell is wrong with you anyway? You are a Rino and must go in 2014, we have had enough of your antics always agreeing with Obama. I am very mad and do not intend to take it any longer. Annie
When you “leave the Republican party” you give strength to the liberals, there is no if and’s or buts about it. You give support to the liberals when you leave the party that has any means of stopping the liberals. So don’t brag about leaving the party, stay and fight with the only good guys in the fight.
There are more than Demo and Repub parties. Just because you “leave” the GOP, doesn’t mean you empower the Liberals. By moving towards a more representative party, you strengthen yourself and your fellow countrymen. The GOP is a cancer in our country, one we need to remove, while the DNC is a tumor. Both are bad.
From what I see the Republicans aren’t the “good guys” as far as the Tea Party is concerned, they’re a lesser evil at best.
William Tecumseh you forgot to put The Anti- Christian Obama at the top of the evil list with the democratic party God off the platform voting yet having it forced back on lying liars who say we can keep our current insurance (knowing they couldnt compete with an unsustainable bottom line) and your taxes wouldnt go up while they parce word definitions as we see the tax amounts expand and new entitllements collected for. Does Obama think it matters if he lies with his fingers behind his back crossed or just count on a stupid public and shifty electoral process that are as crooked as his words
I tend to agree that leaving the party gives strength to the liberals. But maybe it is time to join another party. My beliefs lead me towards the Libertarian or, and more specifically, the Constitutional party. I have yet to actually change my voter registration because of the facts you mention and, unfortunately, the two minority parties I mentioned don’t have the muscle to compete with the two major parties. I will stick with whatever conservative party that has the numbers to defend the Constitution, but I am not overly impressed with the Republican party. I do have a small bit of hope, though, with members like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Allen West, Mia Love, and Marco Rubio. We need to stand behind these young and upcoming republicans. They can change the party back to the party of Constitutional conservatives. Pray and let your voices be heard.
Like he has so many times before chameleon Mike McIntyre, NC/7, slipped under the radar with his “Not Voting” disgrace on CR funding of the Obamacare abomination. He has scraped by so many times with his evasiveness on support of the liberal agenda, while talking like Jesse Helms back in his District. He was probably DOA for the 2014 cycle already, but this ought to polish him off. At least, I earnestly hope so. This latest disgrace will not go unnoticed.
I hear a lot of criticism about the different parties and how we need to get rid of them, but there seems to be very little conversation about cleaning up the elections. Until we get voter fraud under control, we can’t very well replace anyone. With the SEIU in charge of voter machines, dishonest pole workers sneaking in extra votes, states who don’t have required voter ID, etc., there’s not much chance of unseating our do-nothing leaders.
I like the set up that allows the tea party or libertarian party as Rand paul to wear a republican label. What I didnt like was the primary process that doesnt allow and could be constructed again to disallow candidates that arent handpicked by the republican elite Rhino’s as was the case in VA. and Fla to name a few cases that allowed Romney to become the Rhino candidate when it was evident we were an anybody but Romney. Keep in mind Romney lost and he didnt draw off many of the Christian left that several of the other candidates would have. Rhinos lose.Christian conservatives win thats why the Dem party forced God back onto the platform.
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