How to delay Obamacare: “Stand up and win the argument.”

36 Days to Obamacare : If you have not yet signed the online petition Don’tFundIt, go here. You will receive an email to confirm that you intended to sign the petition. As of 5 pm on Sun., Aug. 25, there were over 551,500 signatures, and counting. (And scroll down on the petition website for status updates on which senators are for, against, or uncommitted; phone numbers there also!)

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Good news:

Ted Cruz doubles down on threat to defund Obamacare, proposes alternatives

Those of us who joined the tele-town hall a few weeks ago learned that Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Bridenstine (R-OK) had a plan to defund and delay Obamacare. It’s a long shot, but it’s a plan. And Tea Party Patriots are part of that plan. The Obamacare exchanges kick in on October 1, so it’s now or never. We can continue to pressure the Speaker of the House and his fellow foot-draggers by calling them, sending postcards, faxing them and pointing out the looming deadline and the urgency of defunding. Don’t be misled by reports that Cruz and Co. want to defund the government and Obamacare by failing to pass a Continuing Resolution on Oct. 1. No, what they are proposing is that the GOP–majority House pass a Continuing Resolution that funds everything (including stuff patriots would otherwise not want included) EXCEPT Obamacare.

From The WashingtonTimes:

Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday doubled down on his call to arms in “defunding Obamacare,” even if Senate Democrats are highly unlikely to approve any short-term spending deal this September that impugns President Obama’s signature domestic achievement. 

Mr. Cruz, Texas Republican, said that if the GOP-controlled House could pass a continuing resolution that strips the Affordable Care Act of funding this September, a “grass-roots tsunami” of opposition to the health care law could force the Senate to relent.

The GOP, he told CNN, has to do something it hasn’t done in a long time: “Stand up and win the argument.” 

. . .On health care, Mr. Cruz said Mr. Obama’s law is a “job killer” that has forced businesses to drop coverage or shift workers to part-time status. He said these changes have an outsized effect on the most vulnerable, including minorities and single moms.

Rising to an oft-repeated challenge, Mr. Cruz offered three health care reforms that Republican[s] may support in lieu of Mr. Obama’ plan. 

He said that Americans should be allowed to build up health savings accounts in a tax-advantaged way, that health coverage should be “personal and portable” and divorced from employment, and that consumers should be allowed to purchase health insurance across state lines instead of quarantining policy options to the individual states.

Speaker Boehner’s details again:

Butler County Office  PH (513) 779-5400

Miami County Office PH (937) 339-1524

Clark County Office   PH (937) 322-1120

D.C. Office

PH  (202) 225-6205

FAX (202) 225-0704

And his mailbox (send postcards):

Speaker John Boehner

7969 Cincinnati-Dayton Road, Suite B

West Chester, OH 45069

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55 Days to Obamacare -- Waivers Galore - Action Plans

If you have not yet signed the online petition Don’tFundIt hosted by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), go here. You will receive an email to confirm that you intended to sign the petition. As of 2 pm on Tuesday, Aug. 6, there were over 214,800 signatures. We need to get that number into the millions.

Obamacare Waivers Galore

Big Corporations: Exempt R

Big Unions: Exempt R   and here  and here

The IRS: Exempt  R 

The state of Maine: Exempt R 

And now Congress and their staff: Exempt R 

From PJ Media a few days ago:

Republicans in the House and Senate are on fire over the news that the White House will exempt members of Congress and their staff from Obamacare’s exchanges. 

One pair of congressmen even have a constitutional amendment that would require members to live under the same laws as every other American, though they said Thursday’s introduction coinciding with the exemption report was just good timing. “Well, on the very day that Matt Salmon and I introduce a constitutional amendment prohibiting Congress from exempting themselves from the laws that they pass, we get word that the Obama Administration has created an administrative rule that will relieve members of Congress and their staffs from the higher health care costs that the rest of America will bear under the 2010 health care law,” Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) wrote on his Facebook page. [emphasis added]

This gets more and more outrageous. And why should we need an amendment to ensure equal protection when we already have the 14th amendment? 

Here’s the August and September plan: after you sign the online petition, start calling your congresspersons. And start sending postcards. We recommend postcards for several reasons: 1) they are cheap - 33¢ postage  2) you can buy a stack at the post office pre-stamped; saves time  3) you can type up (once) Avery labels addressed to your senators and congressperson, as well as any other members of Congress of your choice (such as Paul Ryan) and once you've done that, print out as many sheets as you need; it then takes only a few seconds to stick the label on and write out your message  4) your handwritten messages can be short and sweet; sign your postcard and affix a return address label, and off it goes. Also, postcards mailed to Ohio offices instead of DC offices arrive sooner – fewer security delays.

Your message to Senator Rob Portman could be something like

Vote FOR the CR to prevent a government shut-down.

DE-FUND Obamacare in the CR.

Contact info for Senator Portman:

448 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

Phone: 202-224-3353

1240 East 9th Street

Room 3061

Cleveland, OH 44199

Phone: 216-522-7095

312 Walnut St.

Suite 3075

Cincinnati, OH 45202

Phone: 513-684-3265

Contact info for wobbly GOP Speaker Speaker John Boehner:

Butler County Office  PH (513) 779-5400

Miami County Office PH (937) 339-1524

Clark County Office   PH (937) 322-1120

D.C. Office

PH  (202) 225-6205

FAX (202) 225-0704

And his mailbox (more postcards):

Speaker John Boehner

7969 Cincinnati-Dayton Road, Suite B

West Chester, OH 45069

Melt the phones and stuff the mailboxes! More to come.