McConnell Shoots Down Ted Cruz's Plan To Risk Shutdown Over Obamacare

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) broke with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday, revealing that he won't filibuster legislation to fund the government in service of conservative goals to defund Obamacare.

The Republican leader's decision is a major blow to the push by Cruz and powerful conservative activist groups, who wanted Republicans to unite and filibuster a continuing resolution until Democrats caved agreed to gut funding for the Affordable Care Act.

"Senator McConnell supports the House Republicans' bill and will not vote to block it, since it defunds Obamacare and funds the government without increasing spending by a penny," McConnell spokesman Don Stewart told TPM in an email Monday. "He will also vote against any amendment that attempts to add Obamacare funding back into the House Republicans' bill."

we keep browbeating the republicans but if they are truly doing what their constituents want then do we want them as fellow Americans, do we want their states as part of The United States they are not with us in anything, let them have Texas and Arz. with no strings to gov't help or trade, 

they want what they want let them have it just they sign they have no expectation of any assistance from the USA unless they pay.

The decision clears a path for Democrats to pass a continuing resolution that funds Obamacare. Procedurally, Democrats need 60 votes (they have 54 members) to advance the House-passed continuing resolution.

But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) can strike the language defunding Obamacare with 51 votes, which frees up McConnell and every other Republican to vote against such an amendment. This way he never has to actually vote to fund Obamacare but doesn't force a shutdown over an unachievable goal.

"If and when the Majority Leader goes down that path," Stewart said, "Washington Democrats will have to decide -- without hiding behind a procedural vote -- whether or not to split with their leadership and join Republicans and their constituents in opposing the re-insertion of Obamacare funding into the House-passed bill."

i would like to say "yep that's gonna happen", but we have those who fear re-election in red states if they really care about the country they will not vote in favor of republican agenda, if they did what good are they to the party, hope they have or realize some character and step away rather then hurt us.