ObamaCare: A hill to die on
Townhall – David Limbaugh –
10/8/2013
Cruz . . . would not admit that the Republicans had shut down the
government or were obstructing a compromise. President Obama flat-out refused
to negotiate, and House Republicans have sent him bill after bill authorizing
the funding of government, with each one being summarily rejected by his First
Person-ness.
Sen. Rand Paul . . . would not permit her to
characterize the shutdown as the fault of the GOP or confess that Republicans
had failed to submit the dictatorial Obama a "clean CR." To the contrary, Paul
insisted that Congress had sent the Senate no fewer than six clean bills, which
it could have approved as is and sent to President Obama for his signature.
"We've been offering
compromise after compromise," said Paul. "But you hear from the
president and his men and his women, 'NO NEGOTIATION.'"
Paul . . . her in no uncertain terms that he does not like any part of Obamacare and that
his role is to provide oversight for legislation. His Kentucky constituents overwhelmingly oppose
Obamacare, and he intends to fight it. The compromise was in allowing the
remainder of the budget bill to go through as it was. Contrary to Guthrie's
implication, Republicans were not playing games, said Paul, by passing
piecemeal legislation and sending it to the Senate. This is the way Congress
used to work and is supposed to work.
"For hundreds of
years," Cruz said, "the way Congress is appropriated has been one
topic at a time. How is it blackmail to say, 'We think we should fund the
veterans? Do you agree?' That's a yes-or-no vote. Now, Harry Reid refuses to
let the Democrats vote on that. But how is it blackmail to say, 'We may not
agree on everything, but is there anything we can agree on?' We ought to agree
on supporting our veterans."
People are witnessing the
frightening rollout of Obamacare, with its exorbitant costs and its assault on
our liberties. The people are seeing firsthand that Obama has been dishonest
from the beginning about every aspect of this law. They are also aware that he
is not the nonpartisan he pretended to be but a dictatorial statist who is
driving our nation into bankruptcy. In addition to Obamacare, Obama simply
refuses to rein in government spending.
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