“To continue funding ObamaCare means that doctors will be able to ask their patients about guns and that health-related information will be used to deny guns to millions of citizens, just as more than 150,000 military veterans have already been denied.”
-- GOA statement in postcards landing on congressional desks over the past several weeks
Folks, this is another incredible victory for GOA members -- and
for any lover of the Constitution who has been working so hard to
defund ObamaCare!
As we told you last week, the postcards you receive in the mail from Gun Owners of America are an EXTREMELY important part of our strategy -- click here to become a GOA member and to start receiving yours.
These postcards have proved their usefulness time and time again, as it pays off for us to dump thousands upon thousands of postcards on congressional desks.
And now we hear the great news from yesterday, which amounts to an about-face from the leadership’s earlier position.
Finally, the House Leadership does an about-face on ObamaCare.
The House Republican leadership has (reluctantly) agreed to vote to send the Senate a government funding bill -- known as the “Continuing Resolution” or “CR” -- that defunds the anti-gun ObamaCare program for the next year.
According to Capitol Hill’s Roll Call newspaper yesterday, “House Republicans emerged from their weekly conference meeting Wednesday morning with a new strategy on the continuing resolution: defund ObamaCare in the stopgap spending bill.”
As such, the House is also planning to send the Senate a bill raising the debt ceiling that will delay implementation of the anti-gun ObamaCare program for the next year. And it has plans for a “prioritization” bill assuring that critical programs are funded first from incoming revenues, even if the government reaches its borrowing limit.
Not surprisingly, Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid has indicated he would rather shut down the government than not fund the highly unpopular ObamaCare program. Said Reid: “I’ve told the speaker personally…we are not going to have them hold the [spending bill]…hostage to ‘ObamaCare’…”
Fine.
If Reid is willing to shut down the government rather than defund his pile of corruption and bribes, let him. IT WILL BE REID WHO IS SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT.
There are a bunch of myths which have been perpetrated by Obama and his cronies, but we will deal with two today and give you our suggested responses to them.
MYTH #1: “Some Republicans in Washington are eagerly preparing to…shut down the government if Democrats…do not agree to defund ObamaCare…” [Manchester Union Leader, September 19, 2013]
ANSWER: This is simply incorrect. Under the Antideficiency Act and a series of interpretations by the Office of Legal Counsel and the Office of Management and Budget, all essential functions of the government will continue. If the House wants to send the Senate a bill specifically reinforcing that fact -- and explicitly keeping popular programs open -- it should.
The House cannot remain neutral on ObamaCare. It either funds a program that it then cynically says it wants to eliminate -- or it doesn’t. If Harry Reid is set on shutting down the government, rather than approving a bill that fails to fund his corrupt bribe scheme, that’s his problem.
MYTH # 2: The GOP, by opposing the funding of ObamaCare, is committing “suicide.”
ANSWER: If it is so suicidal for Republicans to fight to defund ObamaCare, why doesn’t Obama want them to do it? Why, instead, are Obama and his media terrified that conservatives will turn this into an issue?
The times conservatives have used government funding to enforce conservative principles -- in 1995-96 under Newt Gingrich and in July, 2011, over the debt limit -- they have benefited politically and produced huge policy victories.
Consider that in 2010, Republicans ran against ObamaCare and enjoyed huge electoral victories. But in 2012, they nominated a candidate for president who invented the prelude to ObamaCare (a.k.a., “RomneyCare”) and who ran against the high unemployment rate.
Let’s see, which strategy produced the better result -- electorally speaking?
As we told you last week, the postcards you receive in the mail from Gun Owners of America are an EXTREMELY important part of our strategy -- click here to become a GOA member and to start receiving yours.
These postcards have proved their usefulness time and time again, as it pays off for us to dump thousands upon thousands of postcards on congressional desks.
And now we hear the great news from yesterday, which amounts to an about-face from the leadership’s earlier position.
Finally, the House Leadership does an about-face on ObamaCare.
The House Republican leadership has (reluctantly) agreed to vote to send the Senate a government funding bill -- known as the “Continuing Resolution” or “CR” -- that defunds the anti-gun ObamaCare program for the next year.
According to Capitol Hill’s Roll Call newspaper yesterday, “House Republicans emerged from their weekly conference meeting Wednesday morning with a new strategy on the continuing resolution: defund ObamaCare in the stopgap spending bill.”
As such, the House is also planning to send the Senate a bill raising the debt ceiling that will delay implementation of the anti-gun ObamaCare program for the next year. And it has plans for a “prioritization” bill assuring that critical programs are funded first from incoming revenues, even if the government reaches its borrowing limit.
Not surprisingly, Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid has indicated he would rather shut down the government than not fund the highly unpopular ObamaCare program. Said Reid: “I’ve told the speaker personally…we are not going to have them hold the [spending bill]…hostage to ‘ObamaCare’…”
Fine.
If Reid is willing to shut down the government rather than defund his pile of corruption and bribes, let him. IT WILL BE REID WHO IS SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT.
There are a bunch of myths which have been perpetrated by Obama and his cronies, but we will deal with two today and give you our suggested responses to them.
MYTH #1: “Some Republicans in Washington are eagerly preparing to…shut down the government if Democrats…do not agree to defund ObamaCare…” [Manchester Union Leader, September 19, 2013]
ANSWER: This is simply incorrect. Under the Antideficiency Act and a series of interpretations by the Office of Legal Counsel and the Office of Management and Budget, all essential functions of the government will continue. If the House wants to send the Senate a bill specifically reinforcing that fact -- and explicitly keeping popular programs open -- it should.
The House cannot remain neutral on ObamaCare. It either funds a program that it then cynically says it wants to eliminate -- or it doesn’t. If Harry Reid is set on shutting down the government, rather than approving a bill that fails to fund his corrupt bribe scheme, that’s his problem.
MYTH # 2: The GOP, by opposing the funding of ObamaCare, is committing “suicide.”
ANSWER: If it is so suicidal for Republicans to fight to defund ObamaCare, why doesn’t Obama want them to do it? Why, instead, are Obama and his media terrified that conservatives will turn this into an issue?
The times conservatives have used government funding to enforce conservative principles -- in 1995-96 under Newt Gingrich and in July, 2011, over the debt limit -- they have benefited politically and produced huge policy victories.
Consider that in 2010, Republicans ran against ObamaCare and enjoyed huge electoral victories. But in 2012, they nominated a candidate for president who invented the prelude to ObamaCare (a.k.a., “RomneyCare”) and who ran against the high unemployment rate.
Let’s see, which strategy produced the better result -- electorally speaking?
ACTION: Click here to contact your representatives and senators.
Let them know that you want them to fight to preserve the House
position defunding ObamaCare on the government funding resolution.
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