Who will *profit* from a government shutdown? Who will be hurt?

Who do Republicans represent? Ask the Koch brothers. Remember this come election time.

House votes to avoid shutdown, delay Obamacare | ABQJournal Online

House GOP rank and file that includes numerous tea party allies would soon have to choose between triggering the first partial shutdown in nearly two decades — or coming away empty-handed from their latest confrontation with Obama.

Undeterred, House Republicans pressed ahead with their latest attempt to squeeze a concession from the White House in exchange for letting the government open for business normally on Tuesday. “Obamacare is based on a limitless government, bureaucratic arrogance and a disregard of a will of the people,” said Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind. [mjh: I can think of nothing more arrogant and disregarding of the will of the People than the Republicans.] …

For a moment at least, the revised House proposal papered over a simmering dispute between Speaker John Boehner and the rest of the leadership, and tea party conservatives who have been more militant about abolishing the health law that all Republican lawmakers oppose.

It was unclear whether members of the rank and file had consulted with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has become the face of the “Defund Obamacare” campaign that tea party organizations are promoting and using as a fundraising tool.

House votes to avoid shutdown, delay Obamacare | ABQJournal Online

Our own Winthrop Quigley does his usual thorough and balanced job regarding Obamacare. (The Republicans will rue the day the named the ACA that. Imagine if Social Security were called RooseveltCare, Medacaid as JohnsonCare or both as DemocratCare 1 and 2.)

Obamacare starting Oct. 1, changing U.S. health insurance | ABQJournal Online

    By Winthrop Quigley / Journal Staff Writer | 10 hours ago

    Copyright © 2013 Albuquerque Journal

    History will be made Tuesday.

    On that day will begin the major push to implement the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – a federal program designed to assure that, in 2014, nearly everyone will have a way to pay for health care and that no one can be denied coverage. Not since Medicare was enacted in 1965 has a government social program been designed to touch so many lives

    Obamacare starting Oct. 1, changing U.S. health insurance | ABQJournal Online

    Highlights you might need to know | ABQJournal Online

    By Winthrop Quigley / Journal Staff Writer | 10 hours ago

    Copyright © 2013 Albuquerque Journal

    A number of significant Affordable Care Act provisions take effect Tuesday; others start in a few months.

    Here are some of the things the average citizen needs to know.

    Highlights you might need to know | ABQJournal Online

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