Redstate
House
GOP Leaders Prepare “Hug It Out” Strategy to Fund Obamacare
By
Erick Erickson
September
10th, 2013
Eric
Cantor is always looking for new and imaginative ways to screw
conservatives. He has Pete Sessions (R-TX), as Rules Chairman,
helping him with his latest creative way to screw conservatives. I’ve
already well documented Pete Sessions’s increasingly bitter
attitude toward Ted Cruz and staggering contempt of his own
constituents who want to defund Obamacare.
Cantor
and Sessions’ latest idea tops even his most absurd shenanigans.
The plan is to pass the real CR that fully funds Obamacare, then pass
a fake bill that defunds Obamacare. The Senate will pass the CR, and
throw the defunding bill in the garbage. But, Cantor and Session’s
theory is that conservatives are so stupid that they will clap like
trained seals at the fake bill, and meanwhile not notice that the
House just fully funded Obamacare.
Let
me break down their plan for you. House leadership will pass a
continuing resolution in the House. It will fund Obamacare. Cantor
and Sessions will also make sure a separate resolution to defund
Obamacare gets passed that would amend the CR to defund Obamacare if
the Senate votes for it, which they of course will not…
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