Posted on 05/07/2015 2:49:32 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Health-care experts call it D.C. insiderism at its worst.
The rumors began trickling in about a week before the scheduled vote on April 23: Republican leadership was quietly pushing senators to pull support for subpoenaing Congress’s fraudulent application to the District of Columbia’s health exchange — the document that facilitated Congress’s “exemption” from Obamacare by allowing lawmakers and staffers to keep their employer subsidies.
The application said Congress employed just 45 people. Names were faked; one employee was listed as “First Last,” another simply as “Congress.” To Small Business Committee chairman David Vitter, who has fought for years against the Obamacare exemption, it was clear that someone in Congress had falsified the document in order to make lawmakers and their staff eligible for taxpayer subsidies provided under the exchange for small-business employees.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Can you say :” Bye , bye ,..FATHEAD !”
With nine Democrats on the committee lined up against the proposal, the chairman needed the support of all ten Republicans to issue the subpoena. But, though it seems an issue tailor-made for the tea-party star and Republican presidential candidate, Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) refused to lend his support. And when the Louisiana senator set a public vote for April 23, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies got involved.
“For whatever reason, leadership decided they wanted that vote to be 5–5, all Republicans, to give Senator Paul cover,” one high-ranking committee staffer tells National Review. “So they worked at a member level to change the votes of otherwise supportive senators.” Four Republicans — senators Mike Enzi, James Risch, Kelly Ayotte, and Deb Fischer — had promised to support Vitter, but that would soon change.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418055/how-five-republicans-let-congress-keep-its-fraudulent-obamacare-subsidies-brendan
Rand Paul (R., Ky.) refused to lend his support... "For whatever reason, leadership decided they wanted that vote to be 5–5, all Republicans, to give Senator Paul cover," one high-ranking committee staffer tells National Review.They got it bad, back scratch fever.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
I’ve been thinking for awhile that the American political system is not just dysfunctional, it’s hopelessly corrupt and beyond repair. Hope I’m wrong.
You know the answer w/o hope. It is truly beyond any repair.
Mark Levin has been talking about this on his radio show tonight. He said Rand Paul is welcome to come on his show and explain this. He also said he wonders if blackmail is not taking place the way the Republicans are acting. Pointed out how McConnell bullies people.
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Yes. That would be the Ruling Party that routinely plunders and defrauds the people they're supposed to be working for. My Senator is one of the turncoats and will not get my vote ever again. My Congressman has already forfeited my support for good. Which leaves me in a conservative state with a Republican in the House and a Republican in the Senate and they're both worthless political hacks who vote me down the river when their own interests demand it. There isn't very far to go from here to hanging the lot of them.
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