Will Grassroots Conservatives' Effort to Defund Obamacare Also Take Out McConnell?

By CHQ Staff | 7/26/13

The effort to stop the further implementation of Obamacare that Utah’s principled limited government constitutional conservative Republican Senator Mike Lee got rolling is starting to gather steam at the grassroots, with conservative commentator and talk radio superstar Mark Levin, the Club for Growth, Heritage Action and Freedom Works all weighing-in to support of Lee’s effort.

Yet the Senate Republican leadership, especially Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have been using every behind the scenes tactic they can muster to spike the effort of conservatives to defund Obamacare.

This ain’t rocket science, all it takes, as Senator Lee observed, is for Republicans to vote NO.

"If Republicans in both houses simply refuse to vote for any continuing resolution that contains further funding for further enforcement of Obamacare, we can stop it. We can stop the individual mandate from going into effect," Lee told "Fox & Friends."

Lee’s key point is that withholding money from further enforcement and implementation of Obamacare and would not affect the portions of the law already in effect, including provisions on pre-existing conditions and children being able to stay on their parents' plans until age 26.

Lee’s goal – and it is one we heartily endorse – is to take-out the individual mandate.

"We're talking about the individual mandate, the exchanges," Lee said according to NewsMax. "That's what Americans are afraid of. That's what's causing premiums to skyrocket. And that's what we've got to stop through this effort of don't fund it."

"This movement is going to continue to build because the American people understand the president is not following the law," Lee said. "The American people shouldn't be required to fund it."

"We already knew that Obamacare was going to be unaffordable. Now we know it's going to be unfair as well because the president is rewriting it not just once, but twice, by telling us that he's not going to enforce the employer mandate, but leave individuals on the hook," as NewsMax reported Lee putting it.

What we don’t understand is with a broad coalition of Republican Senators behind the idea – from longtime Members like Chuck Grassley, to establishment leaders like John Thune, to “boat rocking” conservatives like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz – why hasn’t Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell signed on?

The reluctance of the Senate Republican leadership to draw a line in the sand and join conservatives like Lee, Paul and Cruz to stand against Obamacare is even more puzzling when one looks at the results of the latest CBS News poll on the issue.

The new CBS News poll found that more Americans than ever want Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) repealed.

According to the poll, 36 percent of Americans want Congress to expand or keep the health care law while 39 percent want Congress to repeal it - the highest percentage seen in CBS News polls. The poll also found a majority of Americans - 54 percent - disapprove of the health care law, 36 percent of Americans approve of it and 10 percent said they don't know about it.

The poll also found just 13 percent of Americans say the health care law will personally "help me" while 38 percent said they believe the law will personally "hurt me."


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(Great article from the site of another old sage, Richard A. Viguerie!)

It's not fair for Obama to pick out certain groups of people that don't have to follow the law and insist the rest of us do.
For this reason alone, Mitch McConnell should retire and let the younger guys that don't belong to the elitist group in Washington take charge.

McConnell is in the same league with John McCain & Lindsay Graham. Would love to see all three of them pushed out.
There's no reason to go along with the democrats on this except for the "good ol' buddy network" that runs Washington.

Thank you for posting.

Quote: Cedric wrote in post #4

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A lot of conjecture and claims, absent proof.

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