House Republicans will go down in ignominy, battered by a foul wind of metaphors, if nothing else.
The Hill reports on the effort to destroy Obamacare.
So far, a groundswell in favor of drawing a line in the sand over healthcare has yet to emerge. In interviews, several members cited a finding by the Congressional Research Service that because the healthcare law’s funding comes from mandatory spending, a continuing resolution wouldn’t stop it entirely.
“The difficulty I have with that is everyone that says if you do defund ObamaCare in a CR that’s going to solve ObamaCare and it takes it out. That’s factually not true,” said Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. “The law still stands. Nothing has changed about that.”
Lawmakers are also wary of rooting for a government shutdown. …TheHill
And Paul Krugman is no slacker:
In the short run the point is that Republican leaders are about to reap the whirlwind, because they haven’t had the courage to tell the base that Obamacare is here to stay, that the sequester is in fact intolerable, and that in general they have at least for now lost the war over the shape of American society. …Krugman blog
As Krugman points out, “Chaos looms.”