“I think [House Republicans] ought to vote to defund Obamacare,” Paul told reporters during a press conference at the 2013 Young Americans for Liberty convention Wednesday evening.

“What happens if the Democrats don’t? What happens typically and historically [is] the bills come together and there’s a conference committee and people work a compromise. But right now we’re not getting any kind of compromise if we just peremptorily announce defeat or surrender before we get started,” he said, before adding hopefully that “maybe the compromise ultimately is the whole thing gets delayed because the whole thing’s not going to work.” …

“We didn’t get it passed in the Senate, but you know what the compromise was? The sequester,” Paul told reporters. “We shifted the debate [and] we wound up with the sequester — which, really, while it only cuts the rate of growth of government, is probably one of the few things where we’re at least pulling in the right direction around here.”