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Filibuster the House CR? Cruz, Other Conservatives Say ‘Yes’ (Updated)

Updated 1:20 p.m. | Sen. Ted Cruz said Friday that Republican senators should, in effect, filibuster the House-passed continuing resolution in the Senate.
The Texas Republican is calling on his colleagues to oppose limiting debate on it, warning against what he calls procedural trickery.
 
“Step two is the Senate, where all accounts suggest Harry Reid plans to use procedural gimmicks to try to add funding back in for Obamacare,” Cruz said. “If Reid pursues this plan — if he insists on using a 50-vote threshold to fund Obamacare with a partisan vote of only Democrats — then I hope that every Senate Republican will stand together and oppose cloture on the bill in order to keep the House bill intact and not let Harry Reid add Obamacare funding back in.”
 
“Now is a time for party unity; Senate Republicans should stand side-by-side with courageous House Republicans,” Cruz said.

dont get your hopes up

Yeah, I think I see where this is going...

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health-exchange/2013/09/23/most-oppose-obamacare-defund-if-it-means-government-shuts-down-poll/
9/23/13
Most oppose Obamacare defund if it means government shuts down: Poll

A trio of articles indicating Republicans’ attempt to defund President Obama’s health-care overhaul may be futile are headlining health-care news as the week begins, including a survey that says most Americans oppose the defunding effort if it means a government shutdown.

CNBC said Monday that a poll it sponsored of 800 people finds that 59% of those surveyed are opposed to the Republican plan to defund if it means shutting down the government or defaulting on the nation’s debt. Another 19% are in favor of a government shutdown and 18% say they are unsure.

The survey, conducted by Hart-McInturff, also finds that a plurality of Americans are opposed to defunding Obamacare in general: with 44% compared to 38% in favor. CNBC’s poll also found that men are split on defunding in general, with 43% in favor and 42% opposed. But if defunding means a government shutdown, 56% are opposed to defunding while 14% are in favor. Women oppose defunding under any circumstance, 47% to 33%.

Republicans support defunding in general 51% to 36%, but also are opposed if it means a shutdown, by a 48%-36% margin. Independents oppose defunding in general 44% to 40%, but the percent of those opposed to defunding jumps to 65% if a shutdown is to occur, compared with 14% in favor.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg News is pointing out that even if there were to be a government shutdown, Obamacare would continue to be funded. An article from the business news service says that the law relies mostly on mandatory spending that can’t be stopped, putting it in the same category as Medicare and Social Security.

And the Washington Post says that, in a sign of concession, some Obamacare opponents are instead trying to reshape the law rather than repeal it.

“Why shoot for the moon?” the Post quotes Randel Johnson, senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as saying. The chamber has been a vocal critic of the law and Washington’s biggest spender on lobbying.

“There may be five or six things we can get done — those are the ones we’re going to focus on,” Johnson went on to say.