On
Monday, the House passed a GOP-written continuing resolution (CR) to
keep the government open, with two Obamacare-related amendments attached
to it that the public strongly supports. The first would delay the
individual mandate for a year. The second would override the Obama
administration’s lawless rule giving Congress and its staff special
treatment in the Obamacare exchanges.
The Senate promptly rejected the House-passed CR in a strictly party-line vote on Monday evening.
That’s right. No Senate Democrats supported the
latest version of the CR passed by the House -- not one. In the House,
nine Democrats supported its passage. This CR doesn’t defund Obamacare,
or even delay it for a year. All it does is delay the individual
mandate for a year and restore the originally-intended treatment of
Congress under Obamacare. In other words, every Senate Democrat –
including several from conservative-leaning states who are up for
re-election -- would rather shut down the government than give working
Americans the same one-year break from Obamacare that big businesses
have gotten from the administration, or be treated like other Americans
under Obamacare’s rules.
These are not popular positions to take, to put it
mildly. In polling, about four out of five Americans support getting
rid of the individual mandate. And there’s even stronger support for
making Congress and its staff go into the Obamacare exchanges like other
Americans who lose their employer plans.
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