Proposed Government Shutdown Ahead Just for Giggles

Obamacare will not be defunded. Not by the Senate and definitely not by Obama who’ll veto any legislation that even looks like it will defund Obamacare. No matter, House Republicans want a shutdown anyway — because, you know, it’s fun. Even John McCain has said they’re all a bunch of delusional weirdos.

Nonetheless, the House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill Friday that will shut down the government unless Democrats agree to defund President Barack Obama’s much embattled health care law. Not gonna happen. The bill would continue funding for the government at current levels for almost three months, but would gut Obamacare, meaning it would likely be vetoed by the president – should it pass the Senate — and it’s not passing the Senate.

As the Huffington Post reports, “While some tweaks have been made to the program, the Senate has ignored nearly everything the House has pushed for.” Number one mustache twirler and boxcar villain, Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has made clear that the main point of the law, which Republicans say will keep the lights on in our government, is to block the health care law. Good God. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in opposition claims that it’s just a law meant to shut down the government — and she’s right. “The continuing resolution would not only permanently strip the Affordable Care Act of its funding, but would lock in government spending at sequester levels that conflict with the budget passed in the Senate,” says the Huffington Post.

“It could have no other intent. Its purpose is clear,” Pelosi said. “It is a wolf in wolf’s clothing.”

“Either you don’t know what you are doing, or this is one of the most intentional acts of brutality that you have cooked up, with stiff competition for that honor,” she added.

Other Republicans have called the move “foolish and dumb.”

“In the United States Senate, we will not repeal or defund ‘Obamacare,’ ” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, said Thursday on CNN. “We will not, and to think we can is not rational.”

So there you have it, John McCain throws out the idiot jab.

There will be no filibuster; it’ll be a majority vote, so the Eric Cantors, Ted Cruzes and Mike Lees of the group(s) shouldn’t even get out the comfortable shoes. Nobody wants to hear it.

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