127 Congressmen Sign Letter Pledging to Defund Obamacare

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127 Congressmen Sign Letter Pledging to Defund Obamacare

 

 

Posted by Daniel Horowitz (Diary)

Wednesday, July 18th at 8:07PM EDT

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Since the Supreme Court ignored the Constitution by upholding Obamacare, we have no choice but to use every legislative and executive tool at our disposal to kill this socialist monstrosity. One opportunity we will have to disrupt and impede its implementation will be through the appropriations process.

Last December, we incurred the ‘great spending betrayal’ under Republican leadership in the House. Sixty percent of House Republicans and 34% of Senate Republicans voted for a 1,200-page omnibus bill to fund the government for fiscal year 2012. Despite the pledge to cut spending, the omnibus actually appropriated $10 billion more than the previous year. The bill also violated the GOP pledge against bundled appropriations bills and the rule that all legislation be posted 72 hours before the vote. Moreover, the bill contained funding for all the unsavory things they pledged to defund; most prominently, Obamacare.

Back in 2011, many members figured that the Obamacare problem would easily disappear once the Supreme Court gets involved. Now with John Roberts’s betrayal behind us, we

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