Posted on 04/27/2015 4:00:13 AM PDT by rootin tootin
The GOP seems determined to reinforce its reputation as “the stupid party.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other prominent Republicans plan to co-sponsor a piece of legislation introduced by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson that, as he recently admitted in the Wall Street Journal, would allow Obamacare subsidies issued through federal exchanges to continue for two more years—even if the Supreme Court declares them illegal. This will not only mask the negative consequences of the sloppily-written law, it will antagonize the voters who reinstated the GOP congressional majority last November and provide yet more time for Obamacare to metastasize.
Senator Johnson and his co-sponsors have evidently fallen for the counterintuitive Democrat talking point, relentlessly repeated in the media, that a Supreme Court ruling against the Obama administration in King v. Burwell will harm the GOP ... It is eminently possible that the Court will rule against the Obama administration, and this will leave millions of Obamacare enrollees in the lurch. It is, however, far less likely that the wrath of these Obamacare victims will be directed at Republicans, assuming the GOP handles itself with intestinal fortitude and intelligence.
This problem was created by incompetent Democrat lawmakers, compounded by the illegal distribution of subsidies by an out-of-control IRS, and complicated even further by the refusal of the Obama administration to warn vulnerable enrollees of their peril. Republicans should not rush in to prevent the victims of this skullduggery from feeling the resultant pain.
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These quislings will also sponsor the allowance of these subsidies to not count as income that can be taxed. Count on it.
I guess it is time to start hitting the phones and screaming at them.
“Republicans should not rush in to prevent the victims of this skullduggery from feeling the resultant pain.”
The problem is they are not republicans (notice the correct use of the little “r”). A few are but the larger majority are not and have never been and until the voting public starts to pay attention to deeds rather than cheap words, it will continue as such, until their oligarch dreams are realized.
I 100% agree.
Tens of thousands of dollars in "subsidies" given to Obama Voters per household, while at the same time Obama and Congress slash housing, retirement, pay, and medical to our military heroes?
To heck with his supporters and takers. Let them live with the consequences of their actions.
The only way to get rid of a bad law is to fully implement it....
They, the insurance cos. will go to McConnell and reach a very sweet deal for them and the rovians and obamacare will roll on.
That you can bank on.
The Republicans will do everything they can do to preserve obamacare.
The suicide of the “opposition”.
..........and they actually called me and asked me for MORE MONEY!!!
So, that’s two of us who understand that Obamacare is corporate welfare for the insurance industry.
What the hell is wrong with these people ?
Mitch McConnell when he was running for reelection last fall: “We’re going to repeal ObamaCare root and branch.”
I wish I had a nickel for every lie this jerk has told.
Can’t prevent the freeshitsquad from robbing their fellow man through the government - they might get mad!
And the TV will call them names!
Considering that the states which would be effected adversely by the elimination of subsidies on non-state exchanges are the red states with the courage to buck the system in the first place this does not seem out of line to me.
Well put.
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