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Senate set to strip out ObamaCare delay, send CR back to House

By Dan Calabrese ——--September 30, 2013

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No surprise, but just to keep you up to speed. The Senate will use a simple majority vote to strip out the ObamaCare delay language, while approving the funding to run the government. That, it will send back to the House, at which point the dopey media meme of the day will be that the "political hot potato is in Boehner's court" or some such thing. Reuters:
Republicans are not backing down, Boehner said on Monday morning. "The House has done its work," he said on the House floor, referring to the bill passed by the House on Saturday that would continue funding the government while delaying the health law known as Obamacare for one year and repealing a tax on medical devices. He urged the Senate to pass this bill. There were no sign of negotiations after a quiet Sunday marked by the two parties trying to pin blame on each other for a looming shutdown. The recriminations continued early Monday, as Republicans accused Obama of ignoring their pleas for negotiations. "This president hasn't been involved at all with the leadership or with the Congress," Representative Matt Salmon, an Arizona Republican, told MNSBC's "Morning Joe" program, adding that Obama has not contacted Boehner in more than a week.
What happens at that point depends entirely on whether House Republicans fear the media. They know they're going to get "blamed" for the shutdown, which will portrayed as the end of society and will become the basis for nonstop stories about people starving to death, heartbroken children not being able to get into parks, confusion in the skies, rotten meat being sold at your local deli . . . I have a theory about a government shutdown. For the first week, Republicans will get clobbered by the constant shrieking hysterics of the media. If it goes into a second or third week, people will start noticing that they're not really missing anything by virtue of the government not operating. It could be illuminating for a lot of people. But I'm not sure the GOP has the cajones to get through the first week and find that out.

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