Unfair assumption. I am too lefty to be a Democrat, so I’m not. Its entirely possible to be too reactionary to be a Republican.
From our good friends at Daily Kos, a tweetie…
Can I burn down your house?
No!
Just the 2nd floor?
No!
Garage!
No!
Let’s talk about what I can burn down.
No!
YOU AREN’T COMPROMISING!!!
Is it a “duty” to pass a clean CR? Nothing else will do? Then why have the resolution or Congress at all? Just have a rubber stamp.
Did you just say the … gasp m-word? Sir, there are ladies present!
How does the delay of individual mandate “delay or eliminate health care insurance for needy citizens”? Or removal of tax on medical devices?
For the Nth time, I am not a Republican. Never have been, either.
It is their duty to come to terms, or pass a CR to continue an older budget. The Republicans aren’t negotiating, they’re demanding they get everything they want, and they are offering nothing more than their minimal duty.
The insurance will collapse without having citizens who are healthy signing up for it. Otherwise, the plan goes into a death spiral. That covers elimination nicely.
As for removal of tax on medical devices… that’s the fig leaf your party will likely use to claim victory. After picking yourselves up off the rhetorical canvas. Five minutes after the ring clears.
You just randomly vote Republican every chance you get, I bet. 
He’s correct on that point, I doubt i’ve ever voted for a Republican in all the years I’ve been voting, that does not make me a Democrat. I started out using a clothes pin to hold my nose, but wore it out. Honesty compels I defend his position on that point. And please don’t ever make me do it again.
While I side with the Democrats on the general issue, the vast majority of federal heath care workers are considered essential and still on the job. If there are a few doing children’s, or even adult, cancer research, or even other dread disease research, who are not working, and the House passes a mini-appropriations bill for that, the Senate should pass it.
As for this lowering the pressure on the GOP to cave, I doubt it.
A mini-appropriation for the National Guard would be different, as that really would lessen pressure on the GOP. I just don’t believe those ten children, or even 100 children, are going to get the GOP to cave.
Question: Has the House actually passed a children’s cancer bill? Didn’t think so.
You don’t have a nose?
I wonder just how it would lessen pressure on the Teabaggers for Democrats to pass every single partial authorization that is offered, in the name of harms reduction. The government shutdown would still exist, after all, but there would be a lessening of any rhetorical foothold the Teabaggers could claim (i.e. "we ‘compromised’ four times…).
Maybe we should make up a new acronym. I’m sure someone can come up with something better, but what about RIRO – Republican in Reality Only.\
Personally, I am a RINO. Mostly I have been voting for Democrats in recent years, but there’s no reason for me to stop voting in GOP primaries.
Are you claiming these 80 Republicans were lying about shutting down the government over the ACA? http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/22/80-u-s-house-members-government-shutdown-is-better-than-obamacare/
Many countries around the world have a statutory duty to “balance the budget”. As in, its illegal to allow for spending that the govt cannot pay from current revenues.
Would it be terribly difficult, that when a budget is passed it also comes with the appropriate debt ceiling?
You are likely to be wondering how I smell? Not well, but good.
And being fined $95 a year will make them sign up for $200/month policy?
Looks like McConnel and Paul think this strategy is going great. They were caught on a open mic talking about how it makes the president look horrible and they are totally going to win.
Most people like having affordable insurance.
I’d rather pay 200 a month and get insurance, than pay 95 a year and live in fear.