The bill includes a provision to repeal the medical device sales tax, a levy that would raise $30 billion for the health care law. In a separate vote, the House unanimously agreed to fund the military even if the government does shut down, which all but concedes such an outcome will occur.

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After the vote, House GOP members characterized the Obamacare postponement as a compromise, having previously voted to defund the ACA, according to The Hill. “This bill is not about whether ObamaCare is going to come in or not. What we’re voting on is whether or not you’ll accept the compromise which we have reached out to offer,” said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California.

The vote to delay implementation of the ACA was 231-192, with two Democrats, Jim Matheson of Utah and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, joining Republicans. Two GOP House members voted against: Chris Gibson and Richard Hanna, both of New York.

The tally to eliminate the 2.3 percent tax on medical devices was 248-174. Seventeen Democrats voted in favor.

So.  We may just get a government shutdown today.  And the GOP will get the blame, blah blah blah.  Only here’s the thing:  if the GOP can’t sell what is now a bipartisan compromise — one that speaks to Obama’s having already begun picking and choosing who must follow the law and when, and one that Congress exempted itself from — and then use it as a bludgeon in the run-up to the 2014 elections, it deserves to be swept into the dustbin of history.

Make no mistake: it was pressure from we Hobbits and Visigoths that caused the House to take this position.  The GOP leadership made a compromise with its own conservative caucus, because they simply didn’t have the votes to capitulate.  As many still clearly wish to do.

But they are still the same feckless leaders, and the GOP establishment still prefers the Democrats over the base and the TEA Party.

Which means a lot of the heavy lifting for explaining how it is the Democrats who are essentially holding the government hostage if we don’t let the petulant Obama have his law — and pick and choose who has to follow it and who doesn’t (including Congress) — is going to be left up to the grass roots.

The media will do its best to try to spin the American people.  And we must be there to combat the lies and propaganda that will most assuredly be unleashed in waves of lies, cherry-picked facts, and cynical emotional appeals that only the most gullible will not be able to see for the disgusting ploys they are.

Time to fight.

Our “thinkers” always fancy themselves playing 3-dimensional chess — a long game, if you will.  The problem is, they’ve also convinced themselves that the game can go on in perpetuity — and that the laws of physics and economics don’t intrude in that 3rd dimension.   It’s insular, bubble-wrapped thinking — and it’s being pressured by those of us on the outside who are having to live with each stupid sacrifice of a piece by “our” self-styled Bobby Fischers, many of whom are so dumb that admitted dumb people, were they not so dumb, would file a class action suit for theft of intellectual  property.

The fact is, the only way to lose this battle is to fail to make what is an easy case to make.  Let’s see how many GOP establishment types attempt sabotage over principle.