Republicans Vote to Fund Obamacare

The US Senate just played a little parliamentary trick today. There was a Continuing Resolution bill that passed in the HoR that had funding for the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare or AHA) stripped out of it. Nearly all of the Senate Republicans ran in the previous couple of elections on vowing to #DefundObamacare. They said they would do whatever it takes.

The bill passed to the Senate. Many of you have probably heard of Senator Ted Cruz and the 21 hour filibuster (speech) that he gave in opposition to Obamacare. Many of you won't know the reason.

It has been well known that once they vote cloture on the bill (cloture will end debate, and bring up the actual vote for the bill) that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was going to place an amendment on the bill, reestablishing funding to the AHA. He also was refusing to let any other Senators make any kind of amendments to it. So, in other words, when they voted for cloture on the bill, Harry Reid placed the amendment on the bill, and they voted for it. That vote was a straight party-line vote, allowing the "republicans" in the Senate to claim they voted against the funding of Obamacare. The problem is, there needed to be 60-vote majority to end debate on the bill, which several "republicans" voted to do, knowing what would happen.

Either the Senators that voted for cloture were too afraid of the democrats and their smear tactics, blaming Republicans for "shutting down the government" just to defund Obamacare, or they really don't have a problem with Obamacare because they've been exempt from it.

The argument stating that it would be the republicans shutting down the government is invalid. The republicans passed a bill that continued funding for EVERY OTHER THING IN THE BUDGET, including all of the pet projects and wasteful spending, EXCEPT Obamacare. It was Harry Reid, President Obama, and the rest of the progressive democrats that wouldn't budge - even though the president has (illegally, by the way) delayed many aspects of it, and given exceptions to the law because of major issues with it.

To sum it up, voting for cloture on this bill was voting to fund Obamacare. There were several Senate republicans who voted this through. For us here in Missouri,Senator Roy Blunt was one of them. This is unacceptable. We already have one terrible democratic Senator, Claire McCaskill, we don't need another.

So, since I'm not 30, and not eligible to run against Senator Blunt, I'm asking if there are any true conservatives out there that has a spine, and will stand up against Roy Blunt and fight to replace his seat in the Senate. If you do, I will back you in any way that I can. I'm sick of the politicians who say they're doing what their constituents ask of them, and use shady tricks to claim they have while doing the opposite. Enough is enough. If the AHA goes through, we're in trouble. It has already led to many job losses, and countless jobs reduced to 29 hours a week.

Please, someone stand up. Stand up like Senator Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and others. Do what the senators are there to do, and represent the people.

Please, if you're unwilling to do this yourself, pass this around and ask with me for those that might stand up against the dirty tricks played in our government.