Bring On The Shutdown I Guess

Well, it looks like the House Republicans are determined to shut down the government because now they’ve put in a clause to fund the government only if Obamacare is delayed for a year. I mean, I can’t think of any other explanation. I guess it makes sense that Republicans wouldn’t care if federal workers get paychecks or not (considering their dislike of government handouts and whatnot).

Although, I suppose it is possible that the Senate could pass through a bill that delays Obamacare. Not that it will have any real-world effect because we’d be in the exact same position one year from now. If they truly want a chance of getting rid of Obamacare entirely, they need to delay it until 2017, when there is a possibility that a different president might go along with it. (Except, come on, we all know Hilary Clinton will be president then, don’t we? Is there any potential Republican candidate that doesn’t look like a total buffoon right now?)

By the way, if you’re wondering, a government shutdown has no real effect on me personally, but I suspect it might send all my government co-workers home for a nice vacation.

I need to find some sort of concise, human-understandable explanation of what Obamacare actually does starting October 1. Because it’s rather confusing to keep hearing over and over again about Obamacare going into effect like every month. For example, I thought it took effect and destroyed the country years ago, but now here we are fighting over delaying Obamacare again. And what about that last time we were fighting over Obamacare going into effect? Politics. You can never make any sense of it.

UPDATE: House Republicans said in the wee hours of Sunday morning, and I quote, It’s on like Donkey Kong. Or off, I guess.