Was RoJo Bought Off by McConnell?

It appears that RoJo has been given a shiny object to pursue--"getting a handle on the debt/deficit with Obama & Co."--so that he'd keep his mouth shut and eyes closed over ObozoCare.

(In passing, we heard Jim Sensenbrenner tell us that 'Obozocare can't be de-funded because it's an entitlement.'  Really, Jimbo?  You think we're as stupid as that, Jimbo?)

Here's Protein Wisdom's take on the Senatorial Quislings who have refused to sign onto Lee's proposal:

...What brought Levin to state this so bluntly, using words like “quisling” to describe OK’s Tom Cole, is the reaction of the GOP leadership in the Senate to the Mike Lee proposal, which would fund all the rest of the government, but would ask the House to refuse to fund ObamaCare — the ready occasion for such a brilliant strategic broadside being that Obama continues to re-write the law on the fly, handing out waivers and delays to corporate interests while insisting that private citizens and smaller businesses get no such grace period.  This is law by whimsy, which means it is no stable law at all.  It is lawlessness and imperial diktat.

The Lee plan — which McConnell has remained silent on, but whose position we can glean from Cornyn’s sudden desire to have his name removed from the Lee letter, McConnell being the only Senate Republican who can put pressure on Cornyn — is being actively opposed and publicly criticized by Republicans, who insist that because Obama is President, the measure is nothing more than a “temper tantrum” (Cole, a Boehner Lt.) and “one of the dumbest ideas” Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) has ever heard.

Such outrage!  Such sturm und drang!!  Such asinine remarks!!  Such willful blindness wrapped in a cloak of righteousness!!!

To be clear, the measure would not shut down the government unless Obama and Reid decided to shut down the government.  And even then, the GOP House can pass bill after bill funding all other aspects of the government, leaving the ball in Obama and Reid’s court.

Beyond even that, the strategy is a political winner — not just a Constitutional and fiscal winner.  And that’s because it amounts to the GOP keeping it’s [sic] promise to repeal ObamaCare, not by way of symbolic votes that will always go to the Senate to die, and so are not votes to repeal ObamaCare at all; but rather by using the power of the purse to defund inequitably enforced and wildly unpopular law.

So why all the screeching from the harpies (yes, they're not really masculine) like Burr, and the treachery of McConnell?

This is, as I’ve noted a million times here, the perfect way to pull the veils off of the GOP establishment and its ruling class designs.  It essentially puts an end to the Kabuki theater we’ve all been witness to from the GOP leadership (who I’m convinced secretly salivate over the power and revenue ObamaCare will bring into the government) and forces them to show their faces:  any Republican who does not support the measure is, in fact, voting to keep ObamaCare and see it implemented and taking root.

And RoJo--who GOT ELECTED because he wanted to eliminate ObozoCare--sold his birthright for a mess of pottage:  sitting in the White House, lifting his little finger and having tea over "defining the deficit."

Even Wales would have been better, RoJo.