Next week, House Republicans (and any Democrat Representative with any common sense whatsoever) are going to vote to block funding for President Barack Hussein Obama’s (mm mmm mmmm) signature legislation, the unwanted monstrosity known as Obamacare.

This action will occur as the House takes up a budget plan next week according to House Republican Leader Eric Cantor.

In preparation for this upcoming vote, the Administration’s Health and Human Services Agency released the following propaganda on January 18th:

Without President Barack Obama’s health care law, as many as 129 million Americans — half of those under age 65 — could be denied coverage or charged more because of a pre-existing medical condition.

Without the law, up to 129 million people with health conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis or cancer would be at risk of losing health insurance when they need it most or being denied coverage altogether.

This new estimate by the Health and Human Services Department is more than twice as high as a figure that supporters of the law were using last year.

What Ms. Sibelius and her staff did not say is the fact that most of those millions of people are covered by health insurance at work and don’t face any immediate risk of being denied care for their pre-existing medical problems. In Fact, those who take a new job and sign up in their employer’s health plan are already protected by a 1990s law.

According to economist Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change:

Most of these people don’t have a problem, with or without health reform, because they get their coverage through their employment, and employer coverage takes everybody.

This center is a nonpartisan research organization.

Cantor said at a news conference yesterday, concerning the planned blockage, that:

I expect to see one way or other the product coming out of the House to speak to that and to preclude any funding to be used for that.

House Republicans are looking to immediately cut at least $32 billion from the government’s $3.7 trillion budget, trying to shave some largess from budget deficits that could hit an estimated $1.5 trillion this year.

Details of the package will be made public on Thursday.

According to Cantor’s office, a proposal to block funding for Obamacare is expected to be offered as an amendment during the House debate next week. Republicans, keeping faithful to a campaign pledge for a more open legislative process, will debate a number of amendments to the spending bill.

The problem is, this amendment, which will probably pass the House, is not likely to get past the Democratic-controlled Senate.

The usual congresschickens fear that the attempt to block funds for Obamacare could lead to a government shutdown.

Good. As Sheriff Buford T. Justice (played by the late, great Jackie Gleason)once said:

That’s called an attention-getter.

The last government shutdown happened in 1995.  America had a Democrat President and a Republican Congress.  According to ask.com:

The 1995 “shutdown” of the United States federal government was the result of a conflict between Democratic President Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress over funding for Medicare, education, the environment and public health. It took place after Clinton vetoed the spending bill which Congress sent him. Thereupon, the Federal government of the United States put non-essential government workers on furlough and suspended non-essential services from November 14 through November 19, 1995 and from December 16, 1995 to January 6, 1996 (see budget crisis). The major players were Bill Clinton, the Democrat then serving as President, and Newt Gingrich, the Republican then serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Republican action in 1995 hurt their popularity,  due to the likability factor of President Bill “Bubba” Clinton.  In fact, political pundits point to it as one of the leading causes for Clinton’s re-election. 

Democrats are claiming that a 2011 government shutdown will have the same results.

There are two problems with that theory.  First, the imperious, inept Scooter Obama, not good ol’ boy Bubba Clinton is President of the United States.  Second, certainly the Republicans wouldn’t be so stupid as to run another Bob Dole it’s-his-turn-Washington-Insider, would they?…Would they?

Don’t answer that.