Last Call For Sort Of Shutting Down The Government

Sen. Rand Paul has a great idea, mainly involving not shutting down the government by the House GOP forcing defunding Obamacare, just the House GOP permanently delaying the insurance mandate, the exchanges opening, the subsidies for working class families, and everything else from actually going into effect.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that Republicans should “stand up and fight” against ObamaCare, but warned that forcing a government shutdown over funding for the law is the wrong strategy.

"I don't think shutting down the government is a good idea, but I do think that we were elected, conservatives were elected, to try to stop this overreach, this government takeover of healthcare," Paul told "Fox News Sunday."

Paul said Republicans should use the desire to avoid a government shutdown to squeeze concessions out of Democrats, predicting that a spending bill that headed to conference committee could see a delay of the individual mandate or opening of the insurance exchanges.

"People want us to stand up and fight, I'm willing to stand up and fight," Paul said. "We should use the leverage of controlling one-third of the government. We don't control all of the government, but Republicans control the House of Representatives, they should stand up, use that power to at the very least make that law less bad, delay it, do something we can to protect the American public from the law."

So defunding the law and then threatening to shut down the government is unreasonable.  Defunding all the other stuff that makes the law possible and threatening to shut down the government, totally okay!

 

And so it goes with our principled Republican moderates.