The Senate Conservatives Fund website shows that 1.2 million people have now signed a pledge to defund the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. But it would seem that a number of our top Republicans have, apparently, refused to sign the pledge. And I’m quite sure that no one will be all that surprised when they hear the names of at least some of those individuals. Because the list includes such notable RINOs as Mitch McConnell, as well as John "The Maverick" McCain and his trusty sidekick, Lindsey "Prissy Boy" Graham. I find it odd that even though no Republicans, in either the Senate or the House, voted to pass Obamacare, they remain so apprehensive about defunding it. WHY?
The senators’ website, which also features a stopwatch counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the end of the fiscal year and a proposed continuing resolution to keep the government funded, also names all 11 Republican Senators who, at least up to this point, "won't pledge" to sign the petition. And here again, there are no real surprises, because aside from McConnell, McCain, and Graham, the other Republican Senators who "won't pledge" to sign are Richard Shelby, Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, Jeff "Amnesty" Flake, Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker and Orin Hatch. All guys who like to refer to themselves as conservatives, but very obviously are not.
There are, however, 13 Republican Senators, dare I say actual conservatives, who have signed the pledge. And they are Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Chuck Grassley, Mike Crapo, Jim Risch, Pat Roberts, David Vitter, Deb Fischer, Jeff Chiesa, Jim Inhofe, John Thune and Mike Enzi. The remaining Republican Senators are listed as not having signed the pledge as opposed to those who have said they will not sign it. The senators in support of defunding Obamacare have said they will vote for a continuing resolution that will fund government operations but not the healthcare law. And that’s the "red line" that MUST be adhered to by many more of our congressional Republicans.
To me, those who refuse to sign this pledge to defund Obamacare, are just as guilty, if not more so, as those who worked so hard to shove this abomination through Congress courtesy of every political trick in the book. And while the Republicans can lay claim to the fact that they had nothing whatsoever to do with forcing this disaster onto the American people, by choosing now to do absolutely nothing to remove this tremendous burden off of the backs of those being forced, literally, to contend with it, makes their inaction far worse than the original act of passing it. And their unwillingness to take any action, makes them deserving of retribution to be delivered to them at the ballot box.
Look, the entire purpose of pushing this thing through Congress in the first place had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with actually ‘fixing’ our supposed "broken" healthcare system. Having the government in complete control of what healthcare is available to the American people has long been a proverbial wet dream of the Democrat Party, going all the way back to the days of FDR. And you would think that preventing such a thing from occurring would be sufficient motivation for the Republicans to do all that they can to kill it. Instead they seem quite content to simply let things ride, attempting to pacify the people with vague promises that really have so substance.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Right now the number one priority of our members of Congress should be to gut, severely limited, or kill completely, this debacle that is Obamacare. We ‘need’ members of Congress who are not afraid and who are willing to do ‘all’ that is necessary to put an end to that which they claim to recognize as being so damaging. And if that requires a government shutdown, which we all know is not really a shutdown, then so be it. I feel that they are only taking the easy way out. Because rather than working on how best to articulate why Obamacare must be scrapped, they choose to do nothing while making it appear, through political trickery, as if they are.
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