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Is it wise that conservatives press the House to vote to defund Obama care leading to a government shut down or does that play into the Liberal's hands?

The conservatives have an obligation to repeal Obamacare, not simply to defund it. That piece of legislation was voted on before anyone had the opportunity to even read it. Thus the Republication "establishment" is guilty of duplicity and owes it to their constituency to repeal it outright.

As far as the government being shutdown, it isn't going to have any significant negative effect on the country, if any at all. The only people that would possibly feel the pinch would be the government unionized workers who are way overpaid for the little they do. The politicians are the ones who have thrown this country to the wolves and gotten us in perhaps unrecoverable debt. If a privately owned business was in this much financial trouble, they would be forced into bankruptcy and the owners castigated for mismanagement.

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Agreed In reality I reckon your're correct, but the question here is whether this will play into the Liberal aganda. There is no doubt the media will play the negative up against the GOP , the question left is will they be effective. I've heard it will and it wont and I know for sure political strategies are not my thing. Its important we dont come out swinging for the fence but take a long term approach.

No, the question is... Will those serving the people do what is RIGHT, i.e., stand firm on PRINCIPLE and not concern themselves with some pragmatic concern, e.g., what the liberal media will write about them. The majority of the people of this country were openly opposed to Obamacare and it is about time the elected officals who represent them voted according to the wishes of the people on this one.

Some democrats and republicans who voted for stricter gun laws have been recalled and replaced already. I hope that if the "establishment" GOP doesn't do the right thing on this issue, they will be recalled as well. What is most needed at this hour is a thorough cleansing of Washington. New young blood with traditional, moral and Constitutionally conservative views need to take over... aka: pipe dream!

Sounds good and Im' of the mind in this instance it will prove effective, but then I never believed OBO would get a second term . That said I'm much more concerned with winning the Senate back in 2014 than this vote. I belive a scriptural point we tend to ignore applies directly to politics in general and this (Obamacare) in particular; Deuteronomy 7:22
And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. ]

Certainly its a pipe dream to expect such in one or two elections. God has all the time there is and so we ,above all others, should take a long term outlook.

From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:




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