NEWSMAX: … The clearest signal came on Monday evening, when more pragmatic Republicans moved to crush efforts by a trio of tea party-backed Senators – Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio – to paralyze the Senate unless they get their way on the government funding bill that scuttles Obamacare, President Barack Obama’s healthcare law.
The tactic of using the threat of a government shutdown to defund Obamacare had already come under a barrage of public criticism from Republican voices. They include more than a dozen Republican senators, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, and strategists Karl Rove and Steve Schmidt, who advised Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign against Obama…
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called it a “bridge too far” to shut down the government if Obamacare is not defunded and said it could dash any hopes the party has of wresting control of the Senate from Democrats next year… (more)
