House Republicans Really Believe Democrats Will Cave On Obamacare To Avoid A Government Shutdown

[cali]

House Republicans may appear to observers to be pushing the government toward a shutdown, but that's not even remotely how they see it.

The GOP rank-and-file still believe that the Senate might accept and the White House might sign a one-year delay of Obamacare in exchange for two months of sequester-level spending to briefly stave off a government shutdown.

"How dare you?" Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said when reporters asked how the House would respond when the Senate rejected its offer. He grew angrier as he continued to question how one could assume the bill was dead on arrival in the Senate.

"I have never foreseen a government shutdown and I continue not to see a government shutdown," said Rep. Rob Woodall (R-Ga.), who was a senior Hill staffer before being elected to Congress in 2010. "The Senate has plenty of time to deal with this. This is good, common middle ground that is in this package. I think we're gonna get a big bipartisan vote in the House. I think we're gonna get a big vote in the Senate too."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/29/house-republicans-obamacare_n_4013595.html

[The Magistrate]

1. They Are Using Their Product, Ma'am

I seriously doubt they understand the situation which actually exists....

"This war was got up drunk, but will have to be settled sober."

[cali]

3. I agree. From what I've read, they really don't understand the situation.

It's kind of breath taking.

[geek tragedy]

5. Getting high on their own supply.

Never a good business model.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Repugs are, apparently, riffing on this magazine cover:

[Rex]

4. Never negotiate with terrorists.

The GOP is clearly a domestic terrorist organization, instead of using guns to kill thousands - they use the pen. Still same results, thousands homeless, thousands without healthcare and thousands dead from lack of medical attention. Might as well be bullets.

[Turbineguy]

6. Maybe after the shutdown and especially in the case of the debt ceiling

could they be charged under the Patriot Act?

[Old Codger]

7. If they do

They might as well shut down as they would no longer be a government....

[johnd83]

8. The filibuster cuts both ways

I highly doubt there are 60 senators who would vote to delay.