It is mandatory that key-information regarding the politics of ObamaCare Defunding be distilled.

Those CongressPeople who wish to sign-on to the Meadows Defund-Letter [joining 80 colleagues] will also have signed-on as co-sponsors of the Graves: Bill - 113th Congress (2013 - 2014) H.R.2682 [~180]; the distinction with a difference is that the latter is a generic defunding-bill, whereas the former is specifically tethered to the CR [which is the only vehicle envisioned that could defund it]. Therefore, Heritage Action is focusing on the 100 people who have yet to take what should be a minimal leap from Graves to Meadows, regardless of what may have been pledged publicly/privately during August [n.b., the media maliciously/falsely portray this effort as 80 HOUSE MEMBERS claiming SHUTDOWN BETTER THAN OBAMACARE, despite the fact that the House would fund all federal operations except ObamaCarea pesky-fact known bybut omitted by the A.P. author of this piece (Charles Babington).] Consider the just-received blast from the Independence Hall Tea Party Association which, it may be recalled, had directly communicated [to moi] that it had yet to have adopted a posture regarding the overall defunding effort [seeking unity, as a priority]; this was a shocker, for most everyone else nationally [in the TPM] had long-ago adopted a muscular anti-funding posture. Instead, it reported a potentially-desirable endpoint [In particular, on ObamaCare, Congressman Gerlach has suggested a compelling defunding strategy similar to one recently published in the National Review.]; problematic, however, is the disconnect between cited-literature [First, Republicans control the House of Representatives, the birthplace of spending bills. They should exercise their constitutional power and imminently consider language that funds everything but ObamaCare.] and the absence of his signature on Graves/Meadows.

This is why a steely-eyed effort is being promulgated to determine whether each and every senator and representative has committed to stand with mike lee [in the senate] and mark meadows [in the House]. That this is a national phenomenon is illustrated by the fact that the Louisville Tea Party Leader Endorsed Bevin Against McConnell due to fear that Constitution-based values have rapidly eroded. Indeed, ponder what was planned [Tea Party Group to Hold Event for Lindsey Graham Challengers] and then what happened in South-Carolina, where-Tea-Partiers-drafted a potent resolution making a damning [29-point] case-to-replace-Lindsey-Graham; one might argue that recognized capitulation on any one issue could create the perception that the representative had made him-/her-self captive overall to the whims of the TPM, but the focus is on this one votealthough the rest of the cited issues constitutes a panoply of deviations from classical conservatism [for which Graham is proudly notorious]:

Items highlighted by Tea Partiers include: Grahams support of providing weapons to Al-Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood Revolutionaries in Syria, how Graham [s]upported amnesty but not border control, how he supported NSA spying on private American citizens, abridging the First Amendment for those who criticize the government, restrictions on the Second Amendment, Obama's drone program against American citizens, subordinating American sovereignty to the United Nations, giving foreign aid to terrorist governments in the Middle East, granting members of the Muslim Brotherhood high level positions in the US government, giving taxpayer money to international organizations, giving taxpayer money for excessive foreign aid generally, not just to terrorist governments in the Middle East, restricting the First Amendment rights to criticize Islamic radicalism, Obama's radical appointments to the Supreme Court, liberal proposal to nationalize banks, Obama's energy taxes and Cap and Trade, bailouts for financial institutions (TARP), and bailouts for independent mortgage institutions (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). Other points include how Graham opposed principled application of free trade policies, making Bush tax cuts permanent, President Bush's conservative nominee from South Carolina to the Court of Appeals, and medical malpractice tort reform. The Tea Partiers also rip Graham for siding with Democrats on government regulation to combat climate change, having [p]raised Hillary Clintons prospects for higher office, having [f]ailed to fight for President Bush's conservative judicial nominees generally, and for criticizing the South Carolina GOP for defending the Republican platform.

This is why a meeting will be held tonight to discuss what to do about Mike Fitzpatricks reticence to be totally committed to upholding his campaign promise to do everything possible to block ObamaCare. Provided an out [coupling a GOP-themed replacement-bill only to HHS/Treasury appropriations], it is hoped that Mike will do the right thing; regardless, he should sign-on to Meadows/Graves and he should sign the Senate Conservatives petition [http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/?gclid=CKeliuXpbkCFah9OgodNBoAYA] which now had accrued more-then-a-million-signatures. It will be necessary for

a formal announcement to be issued immediately thereafter, noting the fact that Pitts got an earful during his appearance at a Berks medical practice and the impact of this truly-sad press-report: Rep. Scott Perry, R-York County, is among 80 House Republicans who signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner urging him to de-fund the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, so-called ObamaCare. But Perry said he won't vote against any appropriations bills based solely on his disapproval of the law, and his signature was intended to "convey the message that the American people are dissatisfied with the debt and the healthcare law."

There will be no obfuscation permitted, for the HOUSE MAJORITY is NOT AT-STAKE OVER DEFUNDING OF OBAMACARE, and this effort will constitute a republican-circular-firing-squad only if the GOP caves; the gop-can-deliver-a-crushing-blow-to-ObamaCare while ensuring the GOP [otherwise] funds gov't. For example, theories that Obama-Backed the GOP-Into-a Debt-Ceiling-Corner-With-Syria-Move are tangential, claims that BOEHNER VOWS 'WHALE OF A FIGHT' OVER DEBT CEILING are cinema, it is untrue that there is no-easy-path-for-divided-gop-in-ObamaCare-fight, people-support-defunding-ObamaCare, Rand Paul feels House Republicans Have 'Leverage' to Fix ObamaCare; delay is not better-than defund, as has been amply demonstrated by Heritage Action [delay-or-defund], Boehner cannot Avoid this Fight by deferring it [for he risks owning-BoehnerCare], after-six-budget-showdowns-big-government-ismostly-unchanged, and novel therapies have emerged by which ObamaCare may be gutted; to re-cap: HR 2009 [Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013] was passed by the House and could be appended to the CR covering the Treasury Department; HR 2300 [Empowering Patients First] could be appended to the CR covering the Health and Human Services Department; the remaining eight departments could then be amalgamated into one CR and passed [thereby envisioned to be passed by the Senate and signed by the POTUS]. In this fashion, the GOP would not be portrayed as the Party of NO! because it would have adopted [and funded] its alternative-plan, and the GOP would not be portrayed as having shut down government because it would have upheld its duties [per the Constitution, Article I, Section 7] to originate government-funding bills.

Conservatives have stomached republican-leaders-and-their-changing-stories for too long, for they have detected the gops-split-personalities. Patient/exhaustive explanations have been provided in the media [by Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben-Shapiro] and at rallies [cruz & paul-to-headline-rally-against-ObamaCare and cruz-takes-defund-ObamaCare-fight-to-texas]; momentum grew during the hastily-scheduled two-week defund ObamaCare town-hall tour which unambiguously advocated full-defunding, an approach shared by the aaps [Association of American Physicians and Surgeons]. Multiple iterations have been published debunking-the-defund-ObamaCare-myths focusing solely on-the-october-1-appropriations-bill; thus, regardless of whether the GOP-leadership is exhibiting meekness-or-malice, and regardless of whether a republican poll suggests the public is opposed to a government-shutdown to defund ObamaCare (including-republicans), and regardless of claims that boehner-and-cantor-are-confident-that-house-gop wont shut-down government over defunding ObamaCarethe meatloaf caucus [#defundit] of Chickens will be vigorously opposed, both in the House and in the Senate [noting that SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL remains vabue ON OBAMACARE, noting that mcconnell has claimed that shutting-down the-government-will-not-stop-ObamaCare, and particularly noting that FORAMERICA and TEA PARTY PATRIOTS have TARGETED MCCONNELL ON OBAMACAREclaiming 'YOU FUND IT, YOU OWN IT!'].