Boehner is plotting to fund ObamaCare, but you can help stop him

By Dean Clancy on September 10, 2013

Apparently, House Republican leaders think we're stupid.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his leadership team are reportedly trying to pass a Continuing Resolution (CR) through the House this week that funds ObamaCare but looks like it defunds it.

If true, it's a brazen betrayal. And our best intelligence says it's true.

The CR is a spending bill intended to fund federal government agencies and programs beyond the 30th of this month. It will reportedly come up for a vote this Thursday, September 12th -- two days from now.

The new Boehner ploy, known in parliamentary jargon as "deem and pass," is designed to enable House Republicans to say they voted to defund ObamaCare, and indeed passed a bill out of the House that defunds it; but by a sly parliamentary device it enables the Senate to send a bill that FUNDS ObamaCare directly to the President to be signed!

"Deem and pass" means circumventing the traditional legislative process of working out a compromise between the two chambers. Instead, the leaders in both chambers rig the game to shut out the rank and file.

"Deem and pass" enables Republicans to ensure ObamaCare is funded while telling their constituents the opposite.

Very simply, if the reports are true, Boehner and Company are trying to cut grassroots Americans out of the legislative process.

Why? Why would they want to do that? Because they fear a budget standoff with Senate Democrats and President Obama might hurt them politically, even cost them their majority in 2014. These fears are silly, in light of past experience; but apparently they've convinced themselves their majority could disappear if they stand firm for their own professed principles.

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