Scorched Earth, take no prisoners, carpet bomb, do whatever it takes to keep this monstrosity from going into effect.
Rep. Steve King says House Republicans should stick together and vote against any long-term spending agreement that doesn’t block funding for President Barack Obama’s health care law — even if it leads to a government shutdown.
And if that doesn’t work, he says, they should try it again when it’s time to raise the debt ceiling this spring.
“We’ve just got to dig in,” King said in an interview for the POLITICO series “Health Care Reform: One Year Later.” “This is the hill to fight on. This is the time to do it.
“You know that they’re like Santa’s elves in there, 24/7, energetically implementing Obamacare to get it in place, so they can expand this dependency class in America and get the roots of that malignant tumor down so deep that we can’t get ahold of it and pull it out,” King said. “That’s why I think we need to do it now.”