The Hawkins Strategy: Repealing Obamacare By Cutting Off The Funds

Written By : John Hawkins

The problem with doing a full repeal of Obamacare is that it will take a majority in the House, the presidency, and 60 votes in the Senate.

Were I a betting man, I’d say condition one is very likely by 2012, condition 2 is definitely possible, but condition 3 is basically out of reach given that we only have 41 Senators right now. By 2014? Maybe, but under any circumstances, getting to 60 Senators is always extraordinarily difficult. Of course, we may be able to peel off some Democratic votes, but there’s no guarantee that will happen.

So, how do we kill Obamacare?

I have an idea.

“The IRS might have to hire as many as 16,000 new employees to enforce all the new taxes and penalties the bill calls for! And that doesn’t include all the other government jobs from the 159 new agencies, panels, commissions and departments this bill will create.”

What does it take to fund all those government jobs, agencies, panels, & commissions? Tax dollars.

Now, who controls the purse strings? Congress. How many votes do we need via reconciliation to make budget changes? 51.

So, can we gut Obamacare by refusing to fund it?

YES.
WE.
CAN.

Is this a viable strategy? Yes, it is.

Now, what if Obama is President and we do this? He still has to sign a reconciliation bill. Will he do that? He’s certainly not going to be inclined to do it. But, if Republicans don’t back down, we’ve got a stand-off. At that point, it probably comes down to who has the American people at their back. I like those odds.

On the other hand, if we can replace Obama in 2012, then a Republican President will definitely sign off on reconciliation and we’ve eviscerated Obamacare.

Of course, the ideal is still to repeal Obamacare in its entirety — and that should be our ultimate goal. But, if we can defund it while we’re working towards that end, it’ll be like ripping the engine out of the car that drives the bill — and it’s very doable.

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http://norunnyeggs.com steveegg

If the Rs have a majority in both Houses, they should easily be able to write the repeal in such a way that it is a deficit reduction, which makes it qualify for reconciliation and thus a simple majority in the Senate.
Jack Schite

Dream on
dream on
dream on
dream until your mental illness is cured
Bildo

It’s a lot simpler than that.

1. Balanced Budget Amendment (An overwhelming number of Americans support this.)

2. Balance the Budget. This will mean cutting a huge number of Obamajobs, and entitlements as the American people won’t stand for a large tax increase.
http://deathby1000papercuts.blogspot.com mondoreb

Totally do-able.
smelvertising

Anything up to (and, for now, excluding) violence is OK if it gets this shit overturned.

After sunday, politics are no longer a question of scoring partisan points, as now-gloating liberals will soon witness on their own skin; it’s a question of the survival of society.
http://rightwingrocker.blogspot.com RightWingRocker

We’ll also have to repeal all the rest of the crap Obama puts through, then get started with repealing the stupid stuff Bush put through, followed by all the violations of the US Constitution dating back to FDR and, if we can find more, before.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
http://www.conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish/ reelman

THE TIME OF DISTRACTIONS

I maintain the secular socialists can only sell their poison via distractions, lies and smears. Since the HC nationalized bill has cleared the first hurdle its “distraction time”. The self-anointed mush-mouth moderate (and always fearful or fawning) Republicans are crying that somehow the Republicans “hurt themselves” by not caving. How do you do that when over 70% of the voters were and are against the bill? Is 70% of the vote in the next election not enough. Good grief! The compulsory victim parade is another lib-textbook distraction from the total cost and freedoms lost from their goofy new bills. Republicans SHOULD have their own victim shows as we sink further into a recession but they just don’t play that game much. Too bad. Their bad.

Then you have the demo-socialists and their lib-media diaper changers again pretending to give Republicans “advice”.
I am sick of these secular socialists giving advice to those they wish would “drop and die” as Hendrix said in a song.

Who gives a fig newton about advice from the lefty kooks? Just ignore or laugh at it.
They do this from time to time as a form of “caring manipulation”. Its toxic baloney.
Then we have the lib-media reveling in a charge that some unwitnessed and unfilmed person yelled slurs at black elected folks.

This is the “99.9% is not good enough” approach the left ALWAYS takes. Any threat to them must be smeared. That may take a day or month or more but they WILL be smeared if they are telling the truth about modern liberalism or presenting conservative ideas to the public. Mark it. It ALWAYS HAPPENS. Non-socialists MUST be smeared early on…its that distraction thing to get the voters off the actual debate. Usually the effective group is termed radical or nazi-like or tea baggers or racists or yada yada. Maybe a single person of 25 thousand yelled out a slur (maybe). This charge will be mentioned (at least) the rest of the year. This is what is ALWAYS planned…the fog of a smear to distract and discredit. No amount of apology is ever completely accepted either.

Real debate or access to the public ear must be stopped by the secular socialists. They have only 3 weapons as mentioned above: distractions, lies and smears. Thinking voters should be on alert and react accordingly.

http://conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish
CoolCzech

Well, of course we can defund Obamacare. Only thing is, that can change eith each election cycle.

Defunding has to be one part of an overall strategy:

1. Repeal the mandate.

2. Defund specfically the “advisory” (i.e., death, rationing) panels.

3. Paralyze the death panels by making members personally liable for the medical consequences of their rulings.

4. Enact Republican alternatives to socialized medicine: subsidized high risk pools, interstate insurance competition, etc.

5. Then, with a alternative in place, kill Obamacare once and for all.
Power_System_Oper

Hawkins Stategy:

John, what you are admitting is that our federally elected GOP politicians are comprised mostly of wimps who don’t have the guts to stand up for real fiscal conservatism. And you are correct. GOP Rep Paul Ryan had the backbone to develop a detailed plan of specific federal spending cuts which will balance the budget without having to raise taxes. How many of his GOP peers in the House of Representatives back his plan? About 10. Even Minority Leader Boehner who brags that “things will be different if he becomes Speaker” does not have the fortitude to back Rep Ryan’s plan. Yeah things will be different all right if the GOP regains control of the House. It will be Boehner and his cohorts dishing out the pork rather than Pelosi and minions. Fiscal conservatives still end up under the bus. The only difference is that the DEMS make no bones about trying to run over fiscal conservatives in broad day light while the GOP throws fiscal conservatives under the bus in the dark of night when it thinks no one is paying attention.

Debbie Spend-it-now is selling America’s future to the Chinese

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