...and in with something substantive...TheNewAmerican: A vote on a bill to continue government spending after September 30 offered by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) scheduled for Thursday was abruptly cancelled when it was clear that it would fail. Called a “trick” by some Tea Party conservatives, “hocus-pocus” by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and “chicanery” by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Cantor’s bill clearly wouldn't draw the 218 votes necessary for passage. Especially since some 80 House members have signed a letter drafted by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) demanding that any bill offered defund major parts of ObamaCare outright, before the law takes effect on October 1.
TheHill: Forty-three House Republicans on Thursday endorsed legislation that would keep the government open while defunding ObamaCare.Related links: 43 GOP Lawmakers Float Alternative CR That Defunds Obamacare
The sponsorship total reveals that there is a significant bloc of opposition to a plan from GOP leaders that would avoid a government shutdown by requiring that the Senate take a vote on the healthcare law.
Conservatives decried that plan as a "gimmick," forcing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his team to push back a vote until at least next week.
The new measure from Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) gives House conservatives the hardline approach they have been seeking by tying the extension of basic government funding to a one-year delay in ObamaCare.
Republicans introduce plan to stop Obamacare without shutting down government
And for attempting to save the people of America from the turmoil that Obamacare is certain to bring, you've got fossils like Harry Reid calling tea party-minded conservatives 'anarchists' (for at least the fifth time, according to a WeaselZippers' count), joined by equally entrenched cohorts Schumer, Durbin and Murray, resorting to similar tactics to divert attention and undermine all efforts to defund Obamacare.
Related link: Harry Reid Proclaims: "The Anarchists Have Taken Over"
CNSNews: Following a meeting Thursday with Republican congressional leaders, four Senate Democrats stepped up to the microphones on Capitol Hill to express their disgust with tea party conservatives who "seem to live in an alternative universe (and) keep demanding the impossible," in the words of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.So, where's the Republican leadership to counter this? What's the GOP Speaker doing to advance the defund effort? Undermining his own party every step of the way...the headline reads, 'Boehner Seeking Democrats' Help on Fiscal Talks'...comforting...NOT!
The Democrats marginalized conservative Republicans, using adjectives such as "rabid," "anarchists," "willful," "extreme," and "guerrilla" to describe tea party attempts to pass a continuing resolution that funds all of government, except for the health care law that passed without a single Republican vote.
Remarkably, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) admitted that "many of the public is against Obamacare," but he added that "just a small few" want to shut down government to stop it.
That bloc of 43 House conservatives derailed both the GOP Leader and Speaker's Democratic tendencies...but they need your support to continue putting pressure on Boehner and the GOP leadership, who have a real deficit in courage and principle these days.NYTimes: With Congress momentarily freed from the Syrian crisis, lawmakers plunged back into their bitter fiscal standoff on Thursday as Speaker John A. Boehner appealed to the Obama administration and Democratic leaders to help him resolve divisions in the Republican ranks that could lead to a government shutdown by month’s end.
In meetings with Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders on Thursday after a session with Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Wednesday, Mr. Boehner sought a resumption of negotiations that could keep the government running and yield a deficit-reduction deal that would persuade recalcitrant conservatives to raise the government’s borrowing limit.
Related links: Obama Lied, Your Health Insurance Died
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