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politics and politicians Title: Mike Lee defends push to defund ObamaCare There has been significant push back in from the Republican establishment over efforts in Congress to defund ObamaCare. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has been leading the effort in the Senate to cut off funding rather than delay parts of the law, which could lead to a government shut down. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) panned the plan to defund ObamaCare, telling a talk radio host that it’s the “dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of.” Karl Rove, who is no fan of fiscal conservatives, recently tried to stoke fear in Republicans, writing in an op-ed that a government shutdown could cost the party the House of Representatives. In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Lee defended the push by fiscal conservatives in the Senate to defund ObamaCare, noting that it’s “not about liberal or conservative,” but rather “Washington versus everyone else.” “[W]e always knew ObamaCare was going to be unaffordable. We now also know that it’s going to be unfair. The president has said that he’s not ready to implement this law. And because he’s not ready to implement it, he’s going to selectively enforce it,” Lee told Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday. “He is going to, you know, give a big pass to big business while simultaneously telling hard working Americans, individuals that they have to comply with these laws demands or else they’ll face stiff penalties under federal law.” “So, what I’m saying,” Lee continued, “is that if the president is not ready to implement the law, if the law is not ready for prime, Congress shouldn’t fund it.” Lee did downplay the prospect of a government shut down, telling Wallace that “we all know that the government is going to get funded.” But he questioned the wisdom of funding a law to force it on Americans when implementation seems dysfunctional. “The only question is whether the government gets funded with ObamaCare or without it? And what I’m saying is that the president has said he’s not ready to implement the law, he said that the law isn’t ready for primetime,” said Lee, a Tea Party Republican elected in 2010. “And so, if he’s not ready, if the law is not ready, we can’t fund it.” Though his plan may be unpopular in Washington and the Republican establishment, Lee noted that ObamaCare isn’t popular with the public and pointed out that a delay of the employer mandate is unfair to hardworking Americans. “The fact is that we can delay this bill, maybe we can’t repeal it right, but we can delay its funding. And if we can delay it, we can stop its consequences, at least for now. And we have to do that,” he explained. “There are many of us who were elected specifically with this mandate, that we’ve got to stop this law. We have an even stronger reason to that now because the president has said he is not going to enforce it. He is not ready to enforce. And so, he is going to selectively implement the law.” “Holding hardworking Americans to the fire, subjecting them to these horrendous fines, while simultaneously exempting big business, that’s not fair,” he added. “It’s not right, and we shouldn’t fund that effort.” Republicans still have bad dreams about the government shut down in 1995. They lost eight seats in the House the following year, which many commentators attribute to the the political fallout over the shut down, a result of the budget battles between then-President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich. As counterinuative as it may sound, others believe the losses House Republicans took in 1996, which was also a presidential election year, was the result of bad candidates on the ballot more than a result of the government shut down.
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Rove should have been shot by the secret service a long time ago.
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