Are Koch Bros GOP TP Threatening the Stability of our Government with GOP Shutdown to Stage a Takeover?

“We’re very excited,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). “It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.” 

Message to House GOP/TP Obstructionists and their supporters:  We are not going away, and we will not be defeated as many of us who joined Republicans for Obama stand firmly with Democrats and Independents who are standing with President Obama and for Obamacare.

We will be working 24/7 to defeat all Republicans in 2013/2014 who do not stand up for a clean Continuing Resolution Bill and Raising the Debt Ceiling with no strings attached.  The Koch Bros may have the dollars but we have the boots on the ground as more and more people are willing to work to take this Country back from the crazies.  Since so many what used to be normal GOP Congressmen have joined in with the Koch Bros Tea Party, they have lost our respect and our vote for Congressman/woman.  House GOP TP was giddy Saturday night coming out of the Conference to go to the floor to vote to shutdown government even know they knew their bill was DOA in the Senate which it was.

If you spend some time at the media outlets of the “true conservatives” you will realize that they are “giddy” celebrating the shutdown, and “ideally” want to keep the government shut down “through the 2014 elections” because people in government are “terrified that you might discover you don’t need them.”

I am proud I cast my vote for President Barack Obama and now stand firmly behind him in his demand for clean bills which doesn't seem to penetrate the brains of most of the GOP Conference.  Maybe it cannot get past the alcohol they have been drinking since according to reporters the alcohol stench is overwhelming.  There are votes in the House to pass a clean bill but Speaker Boehner refuses to bring it to the floor for fear of losing his job.  Putting your job over the Country means you are the biggest sell-out in history.  President Lincoln had to arrest people including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on his goal of ending slavery.

Now we have a bunch of people led by the Koch Bros who want an overthrow of our Government and want the Government to stay shutdown until after the 2014 election which they are stating openly. That is truly frightening but this Nation cannot give into the hard right demands no more then Lincoln could give into the southern states demand they leave the Union.  This is what today's hard right GOP TP conservatives are all about:

Suicide Pact
Have you ever wondered what is going through the head of a suicide bomber at the moment he or she hits the trigger button? Just spend some time reading conservative blogs and media as they encourage each other to blow up the government. Let’s hope this fever subsides before the debt ceiling is reached.

Reading these comments from the hard right Tea Party Republicans some of who are members of Congress and then watching this video of the President is quite a contrast.  You have a leader in President Obama who wants to do what is best for all Americans versus a bunch of hard right who are willing to see the Government fail to get their way and take over something they couldn't do at the ballot box in November 2012.  They are traitors to the United States in my book.


I am ready to go to the Board of Elections to change my registration to Democrat as I refuse to be a part of the Party of photo ops and stunts.  This shutdown of government over Republicans not getting the way has totally lost me.  I was already going to work for Democrats in 2014 but now I am going to become one next week.  Been a part of Republican politics most of my adult life except when I worked for the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB.

Over the years I have worked various campaigns from national to local races.  I have been the Vice Chair of my County, President of the oldest women's club in Oklahoma, and precinct chair more times then I can count.  I was part of Bush-Cheney and was in charge of a rally at the Capitol in OKC during the Florida fiasco.  If anyone asks what started my eventual break-up with the Republican Party would say it was the transfer to Oklahoma as part of the closure of Kelly AFB.  Was given a choice by my husband - Georgia or Oklahoma.  There was not enough money to make me move to Warner Robins, GA, in the heart of south so we choice Oklahoma and the kids and I chose Norman, the home of the University of Oklahoma.  My husband moved first and then we joined him in January 1997 after a move from the San Antonio area.  With the depot closing at Kelly AFB, we moved north.

There was one request on the move from me and that was season tickets to Sooner football which we were able to get and still have today.  Will be at Owen Field tonight yelling for the Sooners against TCU.

Norman is a progressive town and home to The University of Oklahoma so we have people from all the world living here in Norman.  We are also home to the USPS Training Center and the National Weather and Storms Prediction Center.  The research at OU under President Boren has been climbing every year in various fields.  OU has some of the oldest manuscripts in the world by authors in the earlier centuries.  It is an amazing place to live as academics, sports, culture, and saving the environment all are joined.

I had a bad feeling about the Tea Party and NEVER supported them from the beginning.  When AFP became a big supporter of their cause in 2010 I knew something was wrong because a lot of their people have no clue how Government works which I have seen up close and personal.  Never liked the Paulbots either and why I quit as a Republican precinct chair when our inept County Chair assigned a Paulbot to me.  BTW, when he was elected, two of his slate were not qualified -- one was still a Democrat and the other not registered in our County but that was okay because he was a social conservative.  (sarcasm)

Then my blog, DemocratsforSale, which was taking on Republicans more then Democrats kept getting taken off line by attacks.  It is still off line and will never reappear because in doing the research for the blog discovered that the people for sale were not the Democrats but Republicans who had sold out to the big donors.  After hearing all the rhetoric out of the GOP candidates and know I could never support Romney under any circumstance, I joined Republicans for Obama and found a home.  After that, I joined Obama for America which has morphed into Organizing for Action of which I am a charter member as I moved over with others right away to take up the fight on issues.

That puts me here today and I am still fighting for the President's issues against a group of cowards who are afraid to admit that Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare is the LAW of the land not a bill.  After 44 votes to destroy ACA, you would think GOP TP would get a hint that they have lost the battle and the war especially since so many Americans have already signed up.  They are finding their healthcare costs will go down and now Disney is moving people from part-time to full time so they can get ACA. Walmart is now changing their tune and going to do the same thing according to Forbes which is a huge shocker.  Walmart is learning the hard way that hiring a bunch of part-time workers with no benefits doesn't work as their shelves are empty in a lot of stores because there is no one to stock them.

There are changes that could be made to ACA to strengthen it but from Day One the GOP has been about killing ACA not working with Democrats.  Eighteen times, Majority Leader Reid in the Senate has asked Republicans to come to a conference committee on the budget but it has been blocked by Senate/House Republicans.  The biggest hypocrisy came when the House GOP attached a conference request to the CR when the President has said pass a clean CR.  Already the Democrats have agreed to budget numbers of the Republicans but that is not good enough, they now want more.  That is why you don't negotiate with hostage takers.

Can no longer be a member of a Party that puts their re-election over the American people and the economic health of our Country.  To the sellouts in Republican Party -- you can all sink together in the dustbin of history because the historians are not going to be kind for the crap you have pulled on America.  You have forgotten your oaths to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States of America in order to appease the Koch Bros.  Some conservatives are calling for the shutdown to last until the 2014 elections:

Although many Republicans claim Americans will not notice the effects of the shutdown and intend keeping it in place until the 2014 midterms to prove government is unnecessary, real Americans are already feeling the shutdown’s consequences. For example, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) halted its flu program just as flu season gets underway, over 2 million federal employees will have paychecks delayed and 800,000 may never be repaid, and food safety operations will grind to a halt. For disabled Americans their benefits could be interrupted, the Women’s, Infants, and Children (WIC) program serving 9 million poor women and children is suspended, and Head Start programs start closing soon. Millions of Veterans may miss the benefits if the shutdown lasts more than two weeks because the Department of Veterans Affairs said it may not have money to pay disability claims and pension payments. The shutdown could affect 3.6 million Veterans, so they had better start making poverty plans today because Republicans plan to keep government closed at least until the deadline to raise the debt ceiling in two weeks. The shutdown may last until the 2014 midterm elections when they hope to make it permanent because they claim the people will realize they do not need, or want, a federal government; even for national security. 

Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have been furloughed prompting the spokesman for the director of national intelligence to warn that “the intelligence community’s ability to identify threats and provide information for a broad set of national security decisions will be diminished for the duration.” It seems reasonable that the intelligence community would identify the Republican shutdown as a threat to national security, but without 70% of its workforce, it is likely many threats, including those posed by teabaggers and Republicans, will go unidentified “for the duration.”

It cannot be stressed strongly enough that the shutdown’s duration, according to many Republicans, is going to be at least through the Republican debt ceiling crisis at which time the solvency, or lack thereof, of the government may inform that Republicans succeeded in their goal of a permanent government shutdown. Americans need to comprehend that this shutdown tactic was not just about preventing 30-million uninsured citizens gaining access to affordable healthcare insurance; it was also about Republicans gaining leverage in the impending crisis over the debt ceiling and beyond. According to the National Review, “Boehner called groups of members to his Capitol office, and it became clear, members say, that Boehner’s chief goal is conference unity as the debt limit nears.” The Republican message has shifted away from defunding the Affordable Care Act to items Boehner talked about slashing last month including discretionary spending cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and concentrating on tax reform (cuts) for the rich and corporations. 

From the Chamber and its groups to Wall Street and CEO's and the American people who have asked you Republicans in the House to pass a clean CR bill and raise the debt ceiling with no strings attached, you have ignored all of us to support the Koch Bros agenda.  After the House GOP is ignoring all the pleas, now they are not sure what they want but they want something in exchange for their vote on a clean CR.  You don't negotiate with terrorists and these Republican House GOP TP members led by Senator Ted Cruz of TX who is plotting with the House GOP have turned into domestic terrorists as they want to destroy the Government because they lost the White House and Senate.

One huge voice is missing from the calls for a clean CR -- the Libertarian Koch Bros who want to go back to the gold standard and turn this Country into a Libertarian Utopia where the middle class and poor are there to do their bidding.  Koch's want to do away with healthcare, minimum wage, social security, medicare, anything for the poor, unemployment insurance, OSHA rules, EPA, Department of Education and turn us into a 3rd World Country.

IMHO this is treasonous to try and take down the Government through allowing the United States to default on its monetary obligations.  If I had my way, the Koch Bros and others like Glenn Beck, Rush, et al who want a takeover of Government would all be in jail for trying to destroy America.  Their hatred for President Obama is so racist in nature that I cannot comprehend there are people who think that way but they are on full display during this CR and debt ceiling fight.

This contrast of the two parties says it all:

Republican House GOP/TP Own the Shutdown of the Government

“Speaker John Boehner won’t even let the bill get a yes-or-no vote because he doesn’t want to anger the extremists in his party,” the president said. If the speaker allows a vote, Mr. Obama added, within minutes “we can get back to the business of helping the American people.” President Obama, 10/03/2012

I am so proud of my vote for Barack Obama for President last November as I have watched him stand up to the hostage takers in the Republican Party and not budge.  This was my first vote for a Democrat for President.  Today I feel like I hit the jackpot in getting the kind of President I have wanted for years who puts the people of America first.  I have been privileged to be on conference calls with OFA and have listened to some of the most articulate and knowledgeable people I have ever heard on a conference call.  It is a 180 from previous times on conference calls with the GOP.

This just in from Politicususa.com:

An open mic and camera caught Rand Paul discussing shutdown strategy with Mitch McConnell. Paul admitted that Republicans don’t want to be there, and their only hope is to look reasonable.

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Rand Paul admitted to the world the Republicans only hope of getting out of the government shutdown is if Democrats didn’t focus group test their talking points enough. It is nice to see Mitch McConnell confirm that there isn’t going to be a secret deal. Obama is telling Republicans privately the exact same thing that he is saying publicly. They are going to get nothing. 

However, Republicans are saying something publicly that they don’t believe privately. Publicly, the Republicans are talking tough. Privately, they are desperate for a way out of the shutdown that allows them to claim some little symbolic or token victory. 

After saying no to everything since Obama took office, Republicans aren’t going to be able to fool people into thinking that they are the party of compromise with a few well tested shutdown talking points. Paul has the mood of the country wrong. The American people want these games to stop. The Democratic message is a call for the American people to take a stand against these partisan games. Republicans don’t have a counter message to the actual mood of the country. 

Rand Paul is delusional if he thinks that Republicans are going to win this. They’ve already lost. The only things left to be determined are the size of the loss, and whether or not this will cost them control of the House in 2014. 

Rand Paul basically admitted that the Republican tough talk is empty. Paul probably thought he was being clever by speaking to McConnell in front of the camera and mic, but all he did was dig the hole a little deeper for the Republican Party.

Even now GOP are looking for words to dig them out of this hole they are in thanks to the hard right of which Rand Paul is a member.  Senate GOP wants to put pressure on the House GOP/TP, then vote unanimously in the Senate for a clean CR which the GOP Senators are refusing to do.  Backbones missing in today's Koch funded GOP.

My email today to my Congressman about this GOP/TP House Shutdown of the Government:

Tom
"Seventy-two percent of respondents overall disapprove, including 76 percent of independents and 49 percent of Republicans. Even among respondents who disapprove of the president's health care law, 59 percent disapprove of shutting down the government to force changes to it. More Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown than blame President Barack Obama and the Democrats, by a margin of 44 to 35 percent. Seventeen percent blame both parties." 

Would love to have seen the breakout of Republican women because most women I know believe there is a Republican War on Women.  You are the ONLY member of the OK delegation who voted for the VAWA so it shows you are not afraid to break ranks. 

The very fact that Boehner won't bring the clean CR to the floor for a vote to end the shutdown makes zero sense to the people who I know who have been around politics.  It also makes no sense that the GOP is lying when they say only 30-40 are keeping this from happening.  Even with the Hastert Rule  they could not keep it from coming to the floor.  I watch the video of the Saturday night GOP Conference going out in the hall and you were all giddy knowing you were going to be on the losing end by shutting down the government unless all the drinking made you all delusional and refusing to face reality.  I didn't see one Republican face that was sad but I saw you with thumbs up and talking about a good bill. 

ACA is NOT a bill, it is a law which some Neanderthal Republicans cannot seem to get through their heads.  Because you don't like a like law, you cannot pick and choose.   

Anyone with a brain knew the GOP tactics were going to fail and polls are starting to show that.  You and your buddies are putting our Nation's economy at risk for what? Trying to hold the debt ceiling hostage on October 17 since you have held the budget hostage.

When you attached a conference committee on the budget to the clean CR, you looked like fools as you have refused 18 times to send GOP Reps to a Conference Committee on the Budget.  I hear your members talking about the Senate didn't pass a budget but they passed one in March.  American people should be asked why the GOP stalled until the end of the fiscal year when the Democrats agreed to take your numbers.  It doesn't take a genius to know you did this on purpose thinking the President would cave but he didn't because he has the support of the American people like me to stand up to hostage takers. 

Over 10,000,000 Americans hit the site for ACA which crashed the site including a lot of them from red states which is ignored.  The very idea the GOP supports uninsured going to emergency rooms for care is stupid but then your lack of caring about the poor is even worse.  Talk farm and oil subsidies and the GOP/TP House is right there voting to keep which destroying food stamps.  Now in OK if you don't have a job, are single, and cannot find work, you cannot get any food stamps.  I would rather see one instance of fraud and feed thousands then be the judge and jury to make someone go hungry.

Passing a Veterans budget bill that calls for less funding then agreed to is nothing but a PR stunt and thankfully the Democrats have woken up to how underhanded the GOP has become over the years.  GOP/TP House is not dealing with a full deck and as the hours tick by you have lost the Chamber plus 251 organizations, Wall Street, and now CEO's but somewhere missing is the Koch Brothers and their vast minions of wanting to take down the Government. 

When I heard the voices of the hard right in the media and see them on line talking about an overthrow of the President, it is scary.  We elected him -- it wasn't any fraud and it wasn't ACORN which is out of business even if some members of Congress try to defund -- it was the American people.  Now the hard right refuses to acknowledge the results of the election and acknowledge without gerrymandering this would not have happened as votes for Democrats for the House were over one million more for the Democrats.  Yet your Conference decided to play with the continuing resolution for what?  It makes no sense to go down this path against the American people.  What is there to gain?  More money from the Koch's?

You have some of the dumbest people in the House I have ever heard talk but they follow instructions well as they came to DC to shutdown Government and that is what the members of the GOP in the House have allowed to happen.  You let Freshman takeover knowing full well they were loyal to Bachmann who is one of the worst members of Congress ever and right down there with stupidity and instead of working pulling stunts like the WWII Memorial.

Stop the stunts and pass a clean CR and a clean debt ceiling.  Start helping mold the ACA instead of acting like spoiled brats who lost the game.  As one person said on Twitter maybe Notre Dame should have asked for a redo so they could add 15 points to the score after they lost (to OU). 

One group is thanking you, the fundraisers of the Democrats because the GOP/TP House has handed them a bonanza of donations from small donors who all have votes something the GOP has forgotten while going after big donors. 

Pass a clean continuing resolution and debt ceiling or that number of 72% is going to continue to climb as ordinary people (those ones that the GOP ignores today) are starting to lose money and resources they count on to live.

Regards,
Sharon

Republican big donors have shut up their checkbooks to the GOP yet the House GOP continues down this road and ignore many of the big donors who have underwritten GOP campaigns -- makes no sense:

“I have been in politics for 45 years,” said Georgette Mosbacher, a cosmetics CEO in New York whom The Washington Post once called “the eccentric grande dame of GOP fundraising.” “Every time something does not work, it has to be blamed on an entity ‘out there.’ Well, I am sorry, but the Tea Party isn’t that powerful, and anybody who stopped to think about it long enough would know that.”

House GOP/TP could end the shutdown right now by bringing to the floor and passing a CLEAN CR but Boehner refuses to do that so the shutdown continues while spin that it is the Democrats fault for negotiating wears thin.  There never should have been any negotiation on the continuing resolution. Pass a CLEAN CR -- no negotiation.

Right now, Democrats and Republicans remain at loggerheads over financing the federal government. Some Republicans have suggested that a broader bargain, including changes to entitlement programs, might be one path forward. But the White House has insisted that Republicans not include the debt ceiling in any negotiations. 

Nearly 190 Democrats, including all members of the party’s House leadership team, have signed a letter circulated by Representative Peter Welch of Vermont supporting a “clean” debt-ceiling extension. 

Republicans “view the health care bill as an existential threat to the country, and they are willing to use all tactics, including blowing up the economy, to get rid of Obamacare,” Mr. Welch said in an interview. “If shutdown and default become legitimate tactics, any Congress in the future could use those tactics to get their way.” 

Wall Street “should be concerned,” President Obama told CNBC on Wednesday. “When you have a situation in which a faction is willing to potentially default on U.S. government obligations, then we’re in trouble.” 

He added that it was “important” for Wall Street “to recognize that this is going to have a profound impact on our economy and their bottom lines, their employees and their shareholders.”

After the meeting late yesterday at the White House, it is obvious that the Republicans are not budging from their hard right stance in shutting down the Government.  We were warned when the GOP came to Congress they wanted to shut down the Government.  What did the House GOP leadership do, bow down to the new Tea Party Representatives and put them on leadership and major committees.  They are now reaping the results of the stupid move and because of their lack of backbones, they have shutdown the government costing 800,000+ their jobs and income.  

WASHINGTON — An impassioned President Obama on Thursday kept up the pressure on House Republicans to end the three-day-old government shutdown, appearing at a small construction company outside the capital to challenge Speaker John A. Boehner to quit blocking a vote on federal spending. 

“This isn’t happening because of some financial crisis. It’s happening because of a reckless Republican shutdown in Washington,” he said, to cheers and calls of “That’s right!” from the assembled construction workers at M. Luis Construction, a company formed by Portuguese immigrants in Rockville, Md., a suburb north of Washington. 

“Remember, it was just five years ago that our economy was in a free fall,” Mr. Obama said, speaking on the fifth anniversary of Congress’s vote to bail out the nearly collapsed financial system. Since then, he said, businesses have added more than 7.5 million jobs, an improving housing market has helped construction companies recover, and auto sales have continued to grow. “We can’t afford to threaten that progress right now.” 

Mr. Obama’s appearance came just after the Treasury Department released a report arguing that a default could provoke a recession “comparable to or worse” than the one deepened by the financial crisis of 2008, which was the worst since the Depression.
Besides the well-publicized disruption of the shutdown for tourists, veterans, older people and children in Head Start, Mr. Obama added, “Companies like this one worry that their businesses are going to be disrupted.” The federal government provides $1 billion a month in loans to small businesses that now cannot be processed, he said.

Time for the Republican Party to stop all the hate rhetoric as anything that goes down is not going to be good if the chatter on line is any indication.

Sen Cruz (R-TX) Hurls Insults Minutes After Starting his Speech on the Floor of the Senate

Within minutes, he had compared President Barack Obama’s health care reform law to slavery during the Civil War and Nazis during World War II.  Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), 24 Sep 2012, Floor Speech, US Senate

When are the spineless Republicans in Senate leadership going to admonish Cruz for such a nasty performance on the floor of the US Senate?  I am not holding my breath because I don't see McConnell having the backbone to do a thing.  That is the problem with today's Republicans in Congress -- lack of a backbone to stand up to extremists except for a few like Senator McCain.  What happened to civility in the Senate where they used to fight like cats and dogs and go out to eat that night?  Looks like with the hard right takeover of the GOP, civility has gone out the window as we are left with a lot of malcontents who don't know when to shut up like Cruz.

If you want to see how far the hard right GOP House has gone, just take my word for it when I do a post from a Senator Schumer email.  Four years ago I would have bet that never would have happened but with the Republican Party moving to the extreme hard right, I find myself agreeing with Schumer not any Republicans.  

Conservatives today have jumped the shark and have going into the water to be eaten if they follow Senator Ted Cruz and the other Tea Party members of the Senate and House: 

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday announced that he would give a very long speech to oppose the the government budget over Obamacare “until I am no longer able to stand.”
Within minutes, he had compared President Barack Obama’s health care reform law to slavery during the Civil War and Nazis during World War II. 

Update (4:05 p.m. ET): Cruz’ speech cannot be officially considered a “filibuster” unless it delays Senate business. In this case, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has already locked in a vote for Wednesday morning. That can only be stopped if 41 senators object, which is highly unlikely.

Cruz took the floor at 2:40 vowing to talk until he cannot stand but has now yielded to Sen Lee (R-UT).  That didn't take long.

Cruz may be one of the despised Senators ever from both sides of the aisle.  Anyone want to ask Senator John McCain what he thinks of Cruz?  Better have earmuffs on because the language could get pretty salty.

“He fucking hates Cruz,” one McCain aide told the magazine. “He’s just offended by his style.” 

At the time, McCain had publicly referred to Cruz and other Republicans as “wacko birds.”

Agree 100% with John McCain -- he is right on when talking about the Tea Party people in the Senate who are a disgrace to the Senate.  Have never seen so many junior senators act like they own the Senate as I have with the Tea Party elected Senators -- doing the same thing in the House where they have backed leadership into a corner to do their bidding as they are took weak to fight.  These two men below are symbolic of a larger problem in the Republican Party -- Tea Party and wealthy donors have moved the Party too far hard right.

The unappeasables have all joined together to take down any common sense left in the Republican Party and installed their own brand of obstruction it its place.  You cannot deal with these people whose supporters are some of the nastiest people I have witnessed.  These two men below need to be held responsible for caving to the Tea Party immediately to keep their jobs.  They have zero backbone and helped speed the takeover IMHO!

Senator Schumer is correct about the hard right Republicans who don't care about damaging the economy as they just want to get their way even though the American people don't support defunding Obamacare or they will shut down Government threat.  Vast majority of the American people want some common sense in DC as we are seeing none from the GOP leadership.  This email from Senator Schumer says it all:

Sharon, In all my time in the House and Senate, I have never seen a group of people more bent on damaging the American economy than the hard-right Republicans in the House right now.
Not only did House Republicans just pass an extreme spending bill that would defund Obamacare, but they've said if we don't go along, they'll shut down the government or even default on the bills our country owes -- either of which would be devastating for our economy. 

But the hard right doesn’t have the numbers to run the show on its own. That means House Republican leadership's refusal to stand up to them is what's opened the door to gridlock and potential economic disaster. 

As these fiscal deadlines approach, we Democrats are standing strong, we’re standing together, and we will not blink. We will not let House extremists' "my way or the highway" approach strip 30 million people of health insurance or deny coverage to people with preexisting conditions. 

We are not going to be held hostage. Help show House leadership the American people are standing strong with Democrats and against defunding Obamacare. Sign my petition today. 

A clear majority of supporters voted earlier this week to use any damage Republicans cause to the economy against them in the 2014 midterm elections. But if enough moderate Republicans will work with Democrats in the next several weeks, we can show the hard right in the House for what it really is: a small number of obstructionists. 

Democrats want that, the White House wants that, and in their heart of hearts, Republican leadership wants it too. They know this is a fight that's bad for their party, a fight that's dangerous for the country, and a fight they will not win. 

But Republican leadership will take the path of least resistance. 

The hard-right House members are standing strong, so we must stand even stronger. We need to go beyond elected officials in Washington -- we need voters throughout the country to pledge their support for this stand, too. 

Sign my petition today. Pledge your support for Senate Democrats' stand against House Republican efforts to defund Obamacare or devastate our economy with a shutdown or default. 

Extremists are playing politics by trying to defund Obamacare when they should be focusing on protecting our economy. We must take a stand. 

Thank you for your support, 

Chuck Schumer

There are a lot of us who have never seen a group like these hard right Republicans who are now in Congress.  Koch Bros picked a real bunch of nasty people  to support.  How much do the Koch's hope to gain off of a shut down of Government which is what we should all be asking.  

Why is the House on Recess Next Week? Coming up with New Ideas to Defund Obamacare?

The source added that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is “shopping an idea of passing defund through the House with the CR, but with a mechanism that would allow it to be decoupled in the Senate, defeated, and then the base CR be passed without coming back to the House.”  

That is now dead to be replaced by a vote on the continuing resolution with a much trickier defund Obamacare package which would be harder to decouple according to the Atlantic Wire below.  Looks like after the vote, the House GOP plan to leave town so the Senate can figure out how they handle this mess created by the House Republicans who are bowing to their hard right Tea Party base risking the full faith and credit of the US Government to get reelected.  The very idea that the House is not working next week according to their schedule I just got from the House.gov website should make every one's blood boil.

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Would someone like to explain to me why the House is on recess again next with with continuing resolutions and an upcoming debt ceiling looming?  Are they really this stupid to stay out of DC to allow the Federal Government to default on 1 October 2013 since they have not passed a continuing resolution?  

Their hair brained scheme to defund Obamacare risking the full faith and credit of the United States to appease the Tea Party and wealthy donors should get every last Republican supporting it thrown out of office in November 2014.  These bunch of clowns don't deserve the title of Congressman with their antics and threats to shut down the Government to get their own way to defund Obamacare. Sound like a bunch of spoiled brats who need to go sit in a corner until they can behave.

Those spoiled brats have struck according to The Atlantic Wire article that just broke with a new GOP plan to defund Obamacare or shutdown government with NO decoupling mechanism in the Senate.  Is it me or does Speaker Boeher look like he has a total dislike of this President?  Is it because the current Republican leadership cannot stand having a minority as President and from what I hear from the hard right a Democrat woman would face the same obstacles.  Bottom line is the current GOP cannot stand not having a Republican in the White House.  This picture does Boehner no favors!

If the Atlantic Wire is correct, the House GOP is getting ready to throw a monkey wrench into their vote on the continuing resolution with their new scheme trying to back the Senate and Obama into a corner risking the shutdown of Government over Obamacare.  Petty bunch of Republicans.

House Conservatives Will Get an Anti-Obamacare Vote After AllABBY OHLHEISER6:16 PM ET 

The Republican House leadership will give in to their conservative charges and stage (another!) vote to defund Obamacare as part of a continuing resolution to keep funding the government, according to the National Review. The internal GOP fight about an anti-Obamacare provision in the resolution has played out to the side of the main stage drama over Syria, but with Congress facing a September 30th deadline to keep the government funded, Boehner, Cantor and co. need to do something to get the fight over what the next few months of government funding will look like at least out of the gate.  

Here's the National Review, who note that the leadership will announce the vote Wednesday: 

This means the conservatives who have been urging Boehner to back a defunding effort as part of the CR have won a victory, at least in terms of getting the leadership to go along with their strategy. But getting such a CR through the Senate and signed into law will be very difficult — and many House insiders say the vote may be just the first vote in a long series of legislative ping pong. 

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But it looks like the measure the House ended up with won't provide that easy separation — the measure will simultaneously fund and defund, without the opt out amendment structure.  It's the latest iteration of a conservative push to refuse to continue to fund the government unless Obama agrees to defund Obamacare. And while this round is likely just as symbolic, and doomed to fail, as every previous attempt, we now know more about the line conservatives see between too much symbolic opposition, and just the right amount.
Excerpt:  Read More at the Atlantice Wire about GOP shenanigans on using the continuing resolution to defund Obamacare

From Paul Krugman, New York Times, 11 Sep 2013:

What Defunding Means 

As some of us have been saying, financial markets are way too complacent about the debt ceiling — which we’re going to hit in as little as five weeks. Everything Republican leaders are actually saying suggests that they intend to go full-on blackmail, holding America’s full faith and credit hostage to the sacred goal of crippling Obamacare before it gets going. Assumptions that they will in fact blink are entirely faith-based. 

And this article about the plight of the near-old — those close to, but not yet at, the Medicare age — shows what it is the GOP is willing to fight for, indeed to endanger the stability of world financial markets:

THE sweeping federal health care law making its major public debut next month was meant for people like Juanita Stonebraker, 63, from Oakland, Md., who retired from her job in a hospital billing office a year and a half ago. 

She was able to continue her health insurance coverage from the hospital for a time, but when she tried to find an individual policy on her own, none of the insurers she contacted would cover her because she was diabetic.

Yes: Republicans are willing to push the economy and the financial system to the edge of disaster in order to deny people like Ms. Stonebraker coverage. Awesome, isn’t it?

What makes these House Republican leaders tick?  Never have witnessed anything like this with their hatred of the President who has taken to joking about if he is for something they are automatically against.   They refuse to show respect to the Office of the President now but  demanded all Democrats respect Bush-Cheney even when they were lying -- bunch of hypocrites on top of obstructionists, rude, obnoxious, dishonest, and a few other choice names that are unprintable.

Bottom line no matter how many conservatives think President Obama is going to cave, I would be willing to bet he won't cave on delaying Obamacare and the Republican Party will be blamed if the Government is shut down come 1 October 2013, the beginning of the fiscal year.  American people need to understand this is the fault of Republicans in the House who have refused to meet with the Senate on budget resolutions.  We kept hearing the Senate never passed a budget.  When the Senate wrote a budget that was passed in the spring, the House GOP has refused to acknowledge that budget and send negotiators to work out a deal between the two Houses so the Government can be funded.

This is not the way Government is supposed to work but House Republicans keep pushing ahead going over the cliff.  Now it is time for Americans to wake up to the kind of people who are members of the House GOP caucus who put their own re-election ahead of the Country.  Let's get rid of the obstructionist GOP in 2014 and elect Democrats who want to move the Country forward.