Patton said: “Lead, follow or get out of the way!”
I expect our leaders and leader wannabes to know where they are — so they can avoid leading us, lemming-like, over an unseen cliff.
So I am very interested to learn if YOU know where we are:
1. Democrat Senators can use their filibuster “power” to block a simple “repeal-only” bill passed by the House. Therefore, such a bill would be futile and a waste of time.
2. Democrat Senators lose that “power” if the House passes a “Reconciliation Bill”.
3. A Reconciliation Bill is LIMITED with respect to what it can do. It can repeal or replace funding and spending items, but it cannot NOT change “policy”. Any attempt to change policy would enable a Democrat filibuster to occur. See #1. Therefore, it is not possible to get all the changes to ObamaCare that we want in a single “Reconciliation Bill”.
If you understand those three points, then I think we can have an adult discussion of real-world alternatives. And discuss which changes to Obamacare could be bundled into the Part 3 legislation that Senate Democrats would be afraid to reject.
Otherwise, it’s all “puppies” and “rainbows”, isn’t it? No matter how loudly you may scream about the sanctity of a “repeal-only” bill, no one is listening....
Just get of the filibuster. It’s unconstitutional nonsense.
Then why not a bill like they passed last year which eliminated the individual subsidies, the Medicaid expansion, and the payments to insurance companies? Do those three and Obamcare is dead, stripped of funding. Why all the extra crap of tax credits and the like that turn this into Obamacare's bastard offspring?