Allen West and the Republicans Have Failed Us on Obamacare: Failed to Defund the Monster

Candidate Billy Long was confident on how to stop Obamacare. When I get to Congress I will work to make sure it doesn't get funded. 

This was heard from the mouths of many Republicans hoping to get to Congress or keep their seats in Congress. The idea was not to fund Obamacare immediately from the get go until a Republican president and a Republican Congress could ensure it's repeal. However, something didn't happen when these Republicans got to Congress.

I will let SiriusXM Patriot conservative talk show host extraordinaire talk about the GOP's efforts to defund Obamacare:

The Tea  Party defections are starting to mount as it becomes clear that there is nothing  anyone can do to “fix” Washington. Representative Allen West who is widely admired and respected as a conservative leader in the Tea Party movement has  chosen to vote against a bill that withholds funding for ObamaCare saying that  he is saving his fire for greater battles ahead and that’s the problem. It seems  there is ALWAYS another fight down the road or around the corner that  conservatives promise to be all in for. Alas, all this does is keep the hope alive that electing more Republicans will get the good ship Tomorrow into the  port of Constitutional obedience.

Combine this with dozens of other “Tea Party” defections and then top off your “BackStabbers Delight” with Speaker John Boehner running the surrender flag up the ol’ lifting the debt ceiling flagpole and you have a recipe for frustration. What strikes me as even more galling is the lack of leadership when it comes to running the Congress as the Constitution demands. The Constitution gives Congress undeniable power to undo previous mischievous acts by simply not funding the transgression but on this sinking ship U.S Titanic there are no captains with the foghorns to do
that.

Following the news daily over the past year and a half since John Boehner took over as speaker, I can't recall one instance where Republicans made serious efforts to defund Obamacare. You can't really count this feeble attempt where Allen West voted against the bill as a serious attempt because in West's based on West's explanation, there  there were bigger fish to fry than defunding Obamacare. I remind you, all appropriations go through the house initially. So why is it key Republicans like Allen West voted against defunding Obamacare? 

I have speculated there is much power and money in Obamacare for both parties. The insurance companies get rich as mandatory coverage means less competition as you are forced to buy coverage, and I am sure there are lobbyists in DC tempting both Republicans and Democrats to make sure you swallow the fed's medicine. Of course these companies will write checks to campaigns just like the bailed out banks have. While Republicans say they are opposed to such things as bailouts, Mitt Romney's campaign had no problem taking $500,000 from the disgraceful Bank of America. Why should we expect this to be different when it comes to the insurance companies who know what is coming down the line--big profits from the federal mandate.

If Republicans wanted to slow down Obamacare, they would have immediately stopped funding. That hasn't happened. Instead they had a meaningless vote to repeal Obamacare they knew wouldn't pass in the Senate, and when they return from recess, Eric Cantor has promised a second vote. Like that's going to stop this monster now that Justice John Roberts has betrayed the Commerce Clause. Roberts isn't the only one to blame tonight. Blame also goes to the likes of people like Allen West.