House leadership has been forced to into defunding Obamacare. According to Robert Costa at NRO Boehner and Cantor will soon announce at today's Republican conference meeting that a continuing resolution that defunds Obamacare will be brought up for a vote. Score that as a victory for the Tea Party as the House leadership caved to the unrelenting pressure from Tea Party groups and the general public besieging the House's email servers and phone lines.
The CR should clear the House but once in the Senate it will be up to Cruz and Lee to round up the votes. Remember Minority Leader McConnell is facing a primary challenger and killing Obamacare would enhance his bone fides as a true conservative. For Democratic Senators Begich, Hagan, Landrieu, Pryor, and Shaheen this vote could be the make or break vote of their careers especially if Obamacare becomes the train wreck it is predicted to be.
Should the CR fail in the Senate it's expected the Republicans would revert to "plan B" which would continue funding Obamacare at the price of deeper cuts to the federal budget.
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