{First of all, is National Journal on the list?}

Periodic, current updates provided.

Looks like Mighty John Boehner (master stategist) is preparing to hand Senate Democrats the first really hard vote.

Isn't MJB wonderful?!?!

Now, the House has proposed a new CR that would delay Obamacare's invidual mandate for one year and strip health care subsidies for members of Congress, their staff, the president, vice-president, and political appointees. They're scheduled to meet on the bill in the Rules Committee at 4:15, and no vote is expected until later tonight.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/...-truth-20130930

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The message from House leadership was that no one -- not even the president, themselves, or their staff members -- should enjoy a special exemption from the health care law. By pushing this bill, Majority Leader Eric Cantor said, Republicans are promoting "the fundamental principle ... of no special treatment for anyone."

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The message from House leadership was that no one -- not even the president, themselves, or their staff members -- should enjoy a special exemption from the health care law. By pushing this bill, Majority Leader Eric Cantor said, Republicans are promoting "the fundamental principle ... of no special treatment for anyone."

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Won't this lead to a disastrous shut down just like Defund and Delay were going to do?

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Yes, but this one is really winnable!

{I also think the one year delay was winnable.}

On this issue the GOP House should plant its flag, hunker-down and wait for the Dems to blink.

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The message from House leadership was that no one -- not even the president, themselves, or their staff members -- should enjoy a special exemption from the health care law. By pushing this bill, Majority Leader Eric Cantor said, Republicans are promoting "the fundamental principle ... of no special treatment for anyone."

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Won't this lead to a disastrous shut down just like Defund and Delay were going to do?

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Disasterous? Don't know about that. But yes, looks like it will. That's the dems call though.

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OMG the Lyin King was just on all of the channels, lyin and blamin republicans. So..in other words..the republicans cant disagree with the democrats, but the democrats, who are also disagreeing..arent wrong? They are disagreeing with EACH OTHER..how does that make one of them wrong and not the other? Ask-hole.

Now they just had some other guy on..who was talking to the news people. They asked him if you have insurance..can you keep what you have? Stutter, stutter, stutter..well..well..if you have it, there is always the chance that your company will decide to no longer to provide it..but then..but then..but then..you will get a little more pay..so you can go out and buy it. They really think people are idiots.

I am so sick of this crap..they should shut the govt down...for good.

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On this issue the GOP House should plant its flag, hunker-down and wait for the Dems to blink.

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If they didn;t blink on the other stuff, why would they blink here? There is no evidence they are going to pass anything but a clean CR. I don't even see Dingy passing a week long extension like Miltch is pushing. Why would they?

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UPDATE: 8:17 p.m.--4 Hours Until Shutdown: The House Votes Again

The House is now voting on the budget proposal that would delay the individual mandate and strip health care subsidies for some government workers. It's a fifteen minute vote. From there, the bill will likely move to the Senate, where Senate Democrats say they will move to table the House GOP Obamacare amendment and send back a clean CR.

At that point, things get tense. (By Matt Berman)

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So pass a clean CR, embrace the suck, and admit you never really wanted to fight Obamacare. You guys are wimps.

The alternative is to stop negotiating with yourself, get into the shutdown, then dare the Democrats to refuse to continue to negotiate. Negotiating with yourselves is embarrassing.

h\t redstate

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UPDATE: 8:25 p.m.--3.5 Hours to Shutdown: King "Blame Cruz for Any Shutdown"

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) has openly broken ranks with his party's plan to again pass budget legislation attacking Obamacare, saying he would vote against Republicans' latest iteration of a continuing resolution—and blasting the highest-profile member of the "Defund Obamacare" movement. Chris Moody of Yahoo! News writes: "King [said] that if the government did shut down, one man would be responsible. 'Ted Cruz should be blamed,' King said. 'And anybody that follows him.'"

King needs to go away