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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Defunding Obamacare Not 'Suicide' After All

17 Sep 2013
Beltway conservatives have been warning for weeks that the movement to defund Obamacare through the upcoming budget debate is a political loser. Even columnist Charles Krauthammer, often sympathetic to the Tea Party movement, recently called the move to defund Obamacare a "suicide caucus" because of the risk that their efforts would force a government shutdown just as Republicans were gaining an edge on Democrats.
However, a new poll by Rasmussen indicates that a majority of Americans--51% to 40%--would favor shutting down the government, at least partially, rather than funding Obamacare. Americans who now face the prospect of higher insurance costs, fewer working hours, and the loss of their health coverage or their jobs are willing to suffer a brief interruption in non-essential government services until those problems are solved.
In other worse, the conventional wisdom is wrong--at least about the politics of defunding Obamacare. GOP insiders had subscribed to the left-wing view that Democrats would benefit from any government shutdown, as they did in the 1990s. They believed, like NPR's Nina Totenberg, that "all" of the polling data showed that while people dislike Obamacare, "people don't want to defund it."
If that were ever true, it is no longer.....To Read More.....

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