Charlie Bass promised to vote against Obamacare – did. That should have signaled the intention to kill it anyway possible or needed – so why didn’t he sign the Letter? Would he actually vote to defund Obamacare?
241 US Congressmen are Republicans. 127 of them have signed a Letter saying it was time to use THE power of the US House of Representatives – the Power of the Purse. They have voted to repeal Obamacare multiple times (33, by some counts) but given the Democrat leadership in the Senate, it died. And no one would ever think that a sober Obama would kill off his legacy namesake for the ages and sign a bill that would do exactly that. Thus, defund it. And then have the stones to stick with it. And that scenario would come up with the bills to run the Government – the Doomsday setup. The House vs the Senate, I think, in this case. Here’s the Letter:
Dear Speaker Boehner and Leader Cantor,
We are outraged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to rewrite and largely uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”), as we know you are as well. And we know that our sentiments are in line with the vast majority of Americans who believe that healthcare should be controlled by patients and doctors, not by the government.
We appreciate your willingness to schedule a vote on the full repeal of ObamaCare. We should continue efforts to repeal the law in its entirety this year, next year, and until we are successful. However, in the meantime, there is more we can do in Congress.
The US House just finished it’s work on HR1, cleaning up after democrats who in 2010 abrogated yet another obligation when they found themselves incapable of writing the budget they really wanted right before an election.