Conservatives will use the shutdown and Obamacare rollout embarrassments to push for delaying the law.
Conservative groups and their allies in Congress appear to be rallying around a new strategy to refocus budget negotiations on Obamacare, the original point of contention that led to the government shutdown that’s is heading into its tenth day.
In a somewhat ironic development, support is growing on the right for a short-term debt-limit increase with relatively few strings attached. “We should raise the debt,” Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham told reporters Wednesday. “My tactic is to focus on the [continuing resolution].”
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But first, Republicans need to shift the conversation back to Obamacare. They plan to highlight some of the more embarrassing ways the government has handled the shutdown — preventing veterans from visiting the National World War II Memorial, forcing the closure of privately operated parks, and denying death benefits for veterans’ families.
“This is the inevitable result of a government that is too big and too powerful,” the aide says. “The government has shown a vindictive willingness to misuse its power to gain political advantage, the American people be damned. Do you want these people involved in the most intimate decisions about your health care?”.....
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