Thursday, October 10, 2013

Key Republicans signal willingness to back down on effort to defund health-care law -


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/key-republicans-signal-willingness-to-back-down-on-effort-to-defund-health-care-law/2013/10/09/865b9284-30f6-11e3-89ae-16e186e117d8_story.html?hpid=z2

Article PhotoKey GOP figures on Wednesday sent their clearest signals that they are abandoning their bid to immediately stop the federal health-care law — the issue that forced the government to shut down — and are scrambling for a fallback strategy.
Republican Party leaders, activists and donors now widely acknowledge that the effort to kill President Obama’s signature initiative by hitting the brakes on the government has been a failure. The law has largely disappeared from their calculus as they look for a way out of the impasse over the shutdown and for a way to avoid a possible default on U.S. debt.
if they were in charge would they be as tardy on their decisions, one we know they would not be "WAR".  those of you who were cheering them on to deny you and your family health care how you feel about yourself now, glad you failed when one in your family goes down i betcha?
well folks unless you vote them out 2014 prepare youraself for at least 41 more tries.  you willing to pay for that many more failed efforts suppose you get sick or your kid who you gonna call, Ted Cruz or ObamaCares?
Instead, they are regrouping for a longer battle over the health-care law. They also are trying to refocus the upcoming debt-ceiling showdown on fiscal issues, including entitlements and tax reform.
The strategy to defund the Affordable Care Act “needed a Plan B, and its authors, if they had one, didn’t share what it was,” said Heather R. Higgins, head of the Independent Women’s Forum and founder of a coalition of conservative groups seeking repeal of the health-care law.
let them stay and you will be calling your neighborhood ER. recognize