29 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 4 pm on Sun., Sept.
1, there were over 993,200 signatures, and counting. Let’s get that number over
a million and then start on the next million.
AND IT'S WORKING!
While on a phone
call with Jenny Beth Martin (Co-founder of Tea Party Patriots) discussing the
upcoming rally, she shared with Marianne Gasiecki (Ohio Co-cordinator) some of
what she's being told on Capitol Hill. Marianne reports:
According to the
insiders that she spoke with last week, our calls, emails and town hall
attendance are working. Congressmen that are normally silent are pushing
back against Boehner, telling him that they cannot support a continuing
resolution that does not
defund Obamacare.
Because of our
efforts here in Ohio and across the country, these Congressmen are saying that
if they do support Boehner's position, they will not be able to run for
re-election.
Now let's turn up
the heat!
Our message is
this:
Defund Obamacare, period.
No More Excuses.
Just Get it Done!
And if they do try
to give you excuses, this is what you can tell them:
The RNC adopted a
resolution this past summer to defund Obamacare. If the "Party"
wants it, and the majority of Americans want it, why aren't you getting it
done? Click here to see the resolution.
If they try to
tell you they can't affect mandatory spending, The National Federation of
Republican women have this to say:
Can ObamaCare be
defunded through an appropriations bill? Yes.
By refusing to
appropriate funds to implement and enforce ObamaCare, the law would remain
intact but the processes required to implement the bill's provisions, like the
exchange marketplace, could not continue being implemented and the various
mandates the law created could not be enforced.
What about the difference between mandatory and discretionary spending?
A defunding
measure in an appropriations bill can stop discretionary spending and some
mandatory spending, and there are two good examples of this being done
recently: one, the Hyde Amendment bans federal funding for abortion by amending
the Medicaid entitlement program and has been attached to appropriation bills
since 1976; second, Congress already defunded the co-op health insurance
program which was part of ObamaCare in section 1857 of the Continuing
Resolution passed in April 2011. The Heritage Foundation states that,
"Congress routinely enacts changes to mandatory spending as part of its
annual appropriations process....the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
recognizes these changes when analyzing spending bills and scores them as
CHiMPS--changes in mandatory program spending."
