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It’s up to you to stop ObamaCare
By Dan Spencer
August 4th, 2013 

At the RedState Gathering in New Orleans on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz called for a grassroots effort to persuade Republicans to eliminate funding for President Obama’s health care law. Or as he put it, the “biggest and the most important battle 113th Congress is going to face” — the battle to defund ObamaCare. 

Senator Cruz told the gathering of Conservative activists that the best way to defund ObamaCare is with the continuing resolution needed to fund the federal government after the current continuing resolutionexpires on Sept. 30, 2013. 

Senator Cruz and other like-minded Senators have vowed not to vote for any continuing resolution that funds ObamaCare. To be successful 41 Senators or 218 Members of the House must stand together and likewise refuse to fund ObamaCare. 

Don’t Blink

This is how Senator Cruz said this could work: 

The House passes a continuing resolution that funds the entire federal government and includes language that explicitly prohibits spending even a penny of federal money, discretionary or mandatory, on ObamaCare. 

The next step is that President Obama and Harry Reid will yell and scream that those mean Republicans are threatening to shut down the government. At that point we have to do something different than we’ve done before. We have to step up and win the argument. 

Senator Cruz explained that those opposed to ObamaCare must tell the American people they are not shutting down the government — they are voting to continue funding the entire federal government except for ObamaCare. They must ask why President Obama is threatening to shut down the government in order to force ObamaCare down the throats of the American people? 

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