Posted on 09/04/2010 9:54:53 AM PDT by mojito
Most Democrats have come to understand that they can't run on ObamaCare, but few have the temerity of Ron Wyden. The Oregon Senator is the first to break with the policy underpinnings of the bill he voted for.
Last week Mr. Wyden sent a letter to Oregon health authority director Bruce Goldberg, encouraging the state to seek a waiver from certain ObamaCare rules so it can "come up with innovative solutions that the Federal government has never had the flexibility or will to implement."
One little-known provision of the bill allows states to opt out of the "requirement that individuals purchase health insurance," Mr. Wyden wrote, and "Because you and I believe that the heart of real health reform is affordability and not mandates, I wanted to bring this feature of Section 1332 to the attention of you and the legislature."
Now, that's news. One of the Democratic Party's leading experts on health care wants his state to dump the individual mandate that is among ObamaCare's core features.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
“President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform legislation reportedly contains an added provision that would tax gold coin and bullion transactions.”
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/New-Tax-Gold-Hidden-Obamacare-healthcare/2010/07/21/id/365283
Control gold and guns. Hmmmm...banana Republic, coming up...
Still won’t vote for the drooling idiot.
Oregon Ping
The same asshat that destroyed Oregon's CSD.
Before he became An Esteemed Sinator, Ron couldn’t find Iraq or Afghanistan on a map. I was stunned when he was actually elected.
Last paragraph: “On ObamaCare, Democrats are having the first political second thoughts, at least in this election season. Mr. Wyden is essentially saying that what his party passed is not acceptable, and if such thinking builds, opponents may have a real chance to replace ObamaCare with something better.”
It would be nice if we could replace Wyden with something better. Jim Huffman would be a definite improvement, but it would take a miracle.
Dems SHOULD be panicked. They pissed all over the American people and then hoped we would just forget about it.
Well we haven’t and it seems that they are just starting to figure out that there is going to be hell to pay for their arrogance and not listening to their constituents.
Wyden — is this a head-fake. The legislature in Oregon already passed Obamacare.
I don’t think you can undo that.
WSJ is beginning to read like MAD Magazine.
I was listening to Tom Delay on Fox today. If I understand him correctly, if the Republicans take both houses, the plan is to have enough people to continuously send Obama a law to repeal healthcare (He says it will only take one page) and go back and forth with it and when he refuses, just refuse to fund any of it. Then when 2012 comes around, it will be repealed. He said the Republicans used that tactic during Clinton’s administration on a welfare bill.
There’s going to have to be a political solution. I think the courts will go along with the individual mandate. We just have to let politicians know that if they had anything to do with this, their political lives are over, and that goes for that traitor Romney too. He gave them all the bright idea.
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