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Redstate
Obamacare Will Not Crumble Without
a Government Shutdown
Republicans Must Move Beyond
Rhetorical Maginot Lines
By Erick Erickson
March
14th, 2013
There
are many naive fools who
think Obamacare will crumble under its own weight.
History
shows us that government
entitlements never crumble under their own weight. Rather, countries
crumble
under the weight of those entitlements.
“[Republicans]
speak against
Obamacare building rhetorical Maginot lines that they themselves intend
to go
around.”
Democrats
were willing to lose
their congressional majority to pass Obamacare. They lost the House.
They came
close to losing the Senate. Republicans have shown no such willingness
to
correct the Democrats’ wrong.
As
more and more Americans come to
learn the costs of Obamacare, the unpopularity of the law is growing
again. It
is one of the few issues that have shown consistent majority opposition.
But
Republicans have been unwilling
to fight to kill it.
Many
Republicans have said they’d
wait until the next debt ceiling fight to focus on defunding Obamacare.
But in
case these Republicans missed it, just yesterday Speaker John Boehner
said he
would not risk the full faith and credit of the United States to defund
Obamacare.
The
continuing resolution must be
the fight. The continuing resolution must be the vehicle by which
Republicans
draw a line in the sand. They must be willing to shut down the
government until
the Democrats consent to defunding Obamacare.
Paul
Ryan, John Boehner, Eric
Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and the rest try to obfuscate on what they can
and
cannot do with the present fight. They seem to think Obamacare, despite
all of
history showing us otherwise, will simply collapse under its own weight.
Ted
Cruz managed to get 45
Republicans in the Senate to unite to defund Obamacare. Democratic
Senator Joe
Manchin refused to go to the Senate floor to even take a position, only
to show
up a couple hours laters to vote on the procedural vote. It is a strong
signal
that the Democrats in states who both Barack Obama and John Kerry lost
could be
in a very tough position on this fight…
Read
the rest of the article with links at
Redstate
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