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INTERVIEW: Sarah Palin talks Ted Cruz and ObamaCare defunding with Cavuto. Then, if he so-desires, he can read the rest of this summary of events that have occurred during the past day and, if that burden is excessive, he can start with the [surprising] points that have been IDed in red. {Shes now on Hannity, and its probable that she will reiterate these comments.}

This is an amalgamation of recently-acquired e-mails [and Facebook wall-writings] regarding the GOPs Senatorial-Strategy split regarding the strategy as to how to fight ObamaCare. [Because some report that lobbyists-cheer-plan-to-jam-dems-by-linking-debt-hike-to-tax-reformbecause, With No Talks on Debt Ceiling, Risks MountHouse GOP leaders may delay ObamaCare fight until the debt ceiling talks; note that conflicting polling depending on how queries are framed [e.g., Most against defunding ObamaCare if it would yield a governmental shutdown and some opposing it claim its too conservative]. The focus is trained on Cruzs filibuster [/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/], which has prompted the rnc-to launch-a stand-with-ted-petition [gop.com/stand-with-ted] and has [as detailed in a prior blast] prompted republicans-to-snipe-at-cruz [including prominently, putative competitors such as Rep. Peter King]; also, note this tweet from Donald J. Trump: Its a shame the ruling class of Republicans dont attack Obama and the Democrats the way they hit Senators Cruz & Lee. [(@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2013]. This process may be explained thusly [as per Tea Party Patriots]: Senators like McConnell and Cornyn are likely going to let Harry Reid strip the measure to defund ObamaCare out of the Continuing Resolution that the House passed last week. Then, rather than putting up a fight to keep the measure to defund ObamaCare in the bill - or at least fight for a requirement of 60 votes in order to remove the defunding language they will likely vote for cloture to end debate on the Continuing Resolution. This will allow the Senate to pass the "clean" Continuing Resolution with a simple 51 vote majority. Then they will vote against the "clean" continuing resolution and campaign that they did everything they could to stop ObamaCare. This simply will not be true. These points illustrate, also, why cruz-excoriated-his-fellow-senators over this issue, and why conservative-group-targets-mcconnell-cornyn-over-cruz-filibuster; this is also why theteaparty.net is encouraging congress to stop ObamaCare before it gets to the floor and why cruz likened defund ObamaCare skeptics to those who deferred to the Nazis.

The Tea Party Nation leader just announced that this is the time to rethink support for Mitch McConnell [even as the NY-Times notes that, often-at-the-forefront,-mcconnell-seems-to-step-back due to politics] and others satirically note that GOP SEN. JOHN CORNYN FOUGHT TO DEFUND OBAMACAREBEFORE HE FOUGHT TO FUND IT; on the other hand, the Senate GOP may speed up CR to give the House more time. Although some feel the time to analyze the database has passed, others have complained angrily that this 'law of the land' does not apply to all of the land [refuted by rushwho notes so-was-slavery, another-democrat-institution] and, regarding the borrowing-ceiling issue, that the Sequester Doesnt Cut Agencies Year-End Spending Sprees. To weigh-in on this issue, check the system of Colin Hannas LET FREEDOM RING for their ACTION ALERT OF CONTACTING SENATORS [LFR's Rally Congress feature]; know that, from the Conservative perspective, who-needs-democrats-when-we-have-karl-rove?. Already established is the fact that Employers keep workers under 30 hours/week to avoid ObamaCare penalty; heres another ObamaCare glitch that is costly-for-families: A glitch hidden in one of ObamaCares 10,000 pages of rules could increase some families health insurance costs by thousands of dollars and leave children uncovered. To qualify as affordable under the federal health care law, employer-provided health insurance must cost no more than 9.5 percent of the employees salary. Otherwise, the individual is eligible to receive subsidies for the purchase of health insurance through the ObamaCare exchanges instead. But this measure applies only to individual employees, not families. The result will be a drastic cost increase in cases where affordable employer-provided insurance doesnt cover the whole family. Undeniable is the fact that the Ds are solely responsible [legislatively and administratively].

Prior-reference to yesterdays phone call regarding efforts to Defund ObamaCare [c/o Heritage Action] prompts provision of the following summary thereof; it gets into the weeds only so far as to help the reader appreciate the major forces-at-play and anticipated-tactical-uncertainties being debated: Last week, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (CR) to defund all of ObamaCare by a vote of 230-189. All but one Republican (and two Democrats) voted to defund. This was a major victory for Sentinels across the country who labored for months to make this happen. Senate Situation: The CR is now in the Senate, and it's important to remember the words of the longest serving member in the history of Congress, Rep. John Dingell, who once said, "If you let me write the procedure, and I let you write the substance, I'll [beat] you every time." Our goal in the Senate is to either pass the CR with the defund language or prevent any effort to strip the Cruz-Graves defund language. To do that, we need to ensure that any Reid amendment needs 60 votes to pass (not a simple majority), which is routine in the Senate. 41 Republican Senators (there are 46 currently) could then ensure that the defund language stays in the CR, putting pressure on Reid to move the House CR without amending it to fund ObamaCare. However, Reid has found an avenue to allow him to amend the bill with only 51 votes and send it back to the House. Reid knows that if he shuts off debate on the CR by "invoking cloture" (thus ending the filibuster), it makes his amendment subject only to a 51 vote threshold. As a result, pro-ObamaCare Senators will join Reid in voting for cloture and then have the votes to strike the defund provision. That is why Senators Cruz and Lee and Heritage Action are OPPOSED TO CLOTURE on the bill. It is the only way to prevent Reid from funding ObamaCare with only 51 votes. The establishment critics of Cruz and Lee are attacking this position by saying they are "filibustering their own bill." Not true. In fact, yesterday, Cruz tried to get every Senator

to agree to pass the bill immediately without amendment and send it to the President for his signature. Reid objected to that. Cruz and Lee are filibustering Reid's effort to fund ObamaCare by amendment. So far many Senate Republicans are opposing Cruz and Lee and intending to support cloture on the bill. They want a "show vote" on the Reid amendment where they can look like they oppose the Reid amendment without doing everything procedurally to ensure the amendment cannot get out of the Senate. Sentinels need to remind them over the next few days that a vote for cloture on the bill is a vote to fund ObamaCare. That vote will probably be on Friday. House Situation: IF Reid is successful and the CR is amended to fund ObamaCare, it will go back to the House. House Members must then re-insert the Cruz-Graves defund language and "ping pong" it back to the Senate. Many of them will not want to do that and instead look for some small fix to ObamaCare. Sentinels need to be encouraging them now to be prepared and willing to send the CR back to the Senate with the defund language.

It has been argued, also, that senate-republicans-actually-do-have-the-votes-to-stop-ObamaCare: Republicans have 46 members in the U.S. Senate, more than enough to defeat cloture on any continuing resolution that will ultimately result in ObamaCare being funded. To do so, they will first have to block a parliamentary maneuver by Reid to proceed to the continuing resolution in a manner that will allow the defund ObamaCare language to be stripped out with a simple majority vote. According to Breitbart.coms Matthew Boyle, They could refuse to grant cloture in the first place until a unanimous consent agreement is reached in the Senate that any amendment added to the bill postcloture would also be subject to a 60-vote threshold. They could also require Reid to fill what is known as the amendment tree, a list of amendments that is the maximum of what could be considered on a bill, with amendments other than that one, before agreeing to grant cloture. Mark Levin has Explained The Senate ObamaCare Fight by employing his unique style [mixing berating, angst, and anguish]. Although this point has been made previously, its worth recapitulating as the discussion by the Fox All-Star Panel tonight was far more subdued than during prior days, as the

grudging-recognition afforded Cruz emerged [noting that this issue lives-on solely due to the verve/vitality of these principled advocates]; they praised quotes from his speeches. {It must be noted, however, that OReilly/Krauthammer beat-up on Cruz, minutes ago, claiming he plots to take-over the party from their pals, such as Rove; fine with me!} The point that will be made is that those who are being forced to admire Cruz and the groups supporting him include Jennifer Stefano, who is gradually evincing an attitudinal readjustment [noting her performance on Hannitys TV-show this past Friday @ 9 p.m.]; her remedy, essentially, is to fund its initiation and try to win the elections of 14 & 16, and it is irrelevant whether she functions solely as an individual or on behalf of AFP [information which should have been divulged when she published this op-ed]. In any case, the pungent reaction to the following essay was remitted via e-mail today: And while we're "talking to our co-workers, family, friends and neighbors" INSTEAD of supporting THOSE IN CONGRESS who can actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT Obama Care, this bill PASSES, it gets funded and then implemented and then WE WAIT FOR IT TO COLLAPSE?? I'm sorry Jennifer, I, like you, have been fighting this fight since February of 2009 and I'll be damned if I'm going to let the absolute LAST CHANCE we mere, "unwashed, unknowing" nave citizens will more-than-likely have to stop this bill pass by without doing something about it! If we go down in flames, if this is our "last at bat" and we strike out swinging, then that's the way it will be! At least I'll know that when I look my 11 grandchildren in their eyes and they ask me "Grandpa, why didn't you stop Obama Care"? I'll be able to look all 11 of them in the eye and tell them, "kids, I and your grandmother did EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to stop it'! Here is her essay, noting that she did not choose to reply to the comments [including those of this physician] that it generated a month ago [and note how she starts it by killing with faint praise when pouncing immediately upon Senator Ted Cruz]: Conservatives, here's how to stop ObamaCare By Jennifer Stefano Patriot-News Op-Ed on August 09, 2013 at 12:00 PM, updated August 09, 2013 at 12:04 PM Let me state, up front and for the record, I am a big fan of both Republican U.S. Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas. But they and their allies in the Senate pushing the "defund ObamaCare or shut down the government" fight are wrong. One hundred and ten percent wrong. This is the exact approach President Barack Obama wants and needs Republicans to take and when they do it, they are playing right into the Administration's hands.

Every time those of us on the Right start talking about shutting down the government we lose support for our cause, even when we are trying to stop the wildly unpopular ObamaCare. This type of political posturing takes the debate away from the sheer awfulness of the President's healthcare law and allows Obama to claim this is just Republican pettiness. We mustn't look petty in this fight, we have lives to save. We must go out and warn people of how bad ObamaCare really is and how poorly we will fare under this law. This type of political posturing takes the debate away from the sheer awfulness of the President's healthcare law. To that, my fellow conservatives, your government shutdown approach has got to stop. In theory, should we defund ObamaCare? Sure, but stop living in the theoretical! This is the real world and with a divided Congress there is no way legislatively to stop ObamaCare unless the results of the 2014 election help Republicans keep the House and win the Senate. Therefore, Sen. Lee's approach, while principled, is bad politics that is giving cover to bad policy. Conservatives, don't let that happen! There is a way to win against ObamaCare and it is happening right here in Pennsylvania, right outside your door. The Left has already figured it out. Now you must. Have you ever heard of the group Enroll America? If not, you soon will. This weekend they were out in full force in our Commonwealth knocking on your neighbors' doors telling them what a great idea it is to enroll in ObamaCare and helping them get started. At the same time splashed on the front page of many Pennsylvania newspapers was state Sen. Vince Hughes, D-Philadelphia; and the world's worst Republican, state Rep. Gene DiGirolamo of Bucks County. Both are pushing for the continued expansion of Medicaid at the state level. In order to survive, ObamaCare, the law, needs two things: an expanded Medicaid in every state and lots of young, uninsured people enrolling on the exchanges. Denying the law those two components is like denying a plant sunlight and water - pretty soon it will shrivel up and fade away. If you care about the health and wellbeing of your family, your neighbors and your fellow Americans, then stop talking about defunding ObamaCare and start talking about how negatively it will impact people's lives.

Medicaid is a bad deal for the poorest and sickest among us - with higher death rates and poor health outcomes. Politicians such as Hughes and DiGiralomo want to pat themselves on the back for their good intentions while obviously caring very little about the results for the people they condemn to ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion. Access to health insurance does not mean access to health care. Here's the funny thing: while Hughes and DiGiralomo cry fake tears about expanding Medicaid and pointing to polls showing a plurality of voters want it - what they are ignoring is that those same polls show when people realize Medicaid expansion is part of ObamaCare - they hate it. So where are the warriors on the Right door knocking and letting people know that Medicaid is just another scheme under ObamaCare? Guess who the biggest group of voters are that we can win over in this fight? People who identify themselves as moderate Democrats. Polls show that demographic is increasingly opposed to ObamaCare. But rattle your saber on and on about defunding ObamaCare and shutting down the government and we lose those moderate Democrats as allies almost immediately. And let's go back to this Enroll America group. As mentioned, Enroll America received tax exempt charitable status from the IRS, even though the board of Enroll America is headed up by former Obama campaign staffers and CEO's and high level officials from Big Insurance, Pharm and hospital groups. Which means this so-called charity is out pushing people to buy health insurance that directly benefits the people on its board. That's called inurement and it is illegal. No wonder the citizen watchdog group Cause of Action filed a complaint with the IRS asking for Enroll America's taxexempt status to be revoked. Conservatives -get out there and talk about how unfair it is for big medical corporations to make money from a charitable front group! This is our fight to win! Even the NFL won't get involved with Enroll America. In 2012, the Obama Administration asked the National Football League to get players to make a pitch for Enroll America and encourage people to sign up for ObamaCare. The NFL said no way - Enroll America was too politically toxic. Wouldn't it be a good idea for conservatives to go out and continue to slam the corrupting relationship between this so-called charity and the big insurance companies? Wouldn't it be best for conservatives to start going door to door telling the truth about Medicaid and encouraging

people to protect themselves and their families by NOT enrolling in ObamaCare? The Obama Administration is about to unleash its most potent weapon in the ObamaCare fight: the First Lady. You can love her or hate her, but when Michelle Obama hits the street advocating people sign up on the exchanges for health insurance, she is a formidable opposition. But we have the winning formula in our corner - ObamaCare itself. All we need to do is take to the streets and tell the truth about this disaster law. Conservatives, drop your defund saber and grab a plate of cookies and head to your neighbor's house. Talk from your heart - as a mother, a worker, an elderly American - and tell people why this law is bad for everyone. Talk like you're human - and have a heart and want to help people - because anyone fighting ObamaCare - does. In the battle over ObamaCare, those of us warning of the dangers own the moral high ground. Continue to talk about the government shutdown and you have given the President his greatest opportunity to make the debate about something other then [sic] his policies and turn the tables on us once again. Instead, talk like you want to win. And then go out there and do it. Jennifer Stefano is a political activist and host of The Stefano Show on WNTP-AM 990 in Philadelphia.