Obama meeting with congressional Democrats in last-ditch effort to save ObamaCare

Canada Free Press ^ | 01/02/17 | Dan Calabrese

[Sean_Anthony]

Good luck

Unless Chuck Schumer has a procedural trick in mind that will make repeal impossible, the only way the Democrats save ObamaCare is to scare off at least three Republican senators. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, I assume they’re looking at you, although you’d still need one more. But it might be a measure of how skittish they think Senate Republicans actually are that Obama still thinks it’s worthwhile to rally the troops at this point:

[Spruce]

[Dilbert San Diego]

Obama wants his legacy, and his legacy would be Obamacare, if Hillary had won the election.

I can’t wait to hear his farewell address on January 10th. I’m sure he will tout Obamacare, repeal of don’t ask/don’t tell in the military, and maybe even the court rulings on homosexual marriage as key achievements.

And he will urge us all to be liberal and keep the faith, as we enter a new dark age; per liberals, Trump is Hitler, it’s back to the middle ages, yadda, yadda, yadda.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m afraid all his thoughts are geared to “Whitey is bad”...And Michelle is even more hateful.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, I’m happy for Michelle. She finally gets to move out of a house built by slaves. It apparently affected her deeply, to be forced to live in a house built by slaves.

[WENDLE]

Wait a minute. Are we expecting two women republicrats to vote NOT to repeal and replace obamacare. That cannot be. Not one republican senator voted for this disaster and that is before they read it!! It is the greatest legislative obamanation in the history of Man!!
Shut down the VA. Give vet Medicare. Buy tour own damned insurance or you go to public health at the old VA locations. Problem SOLVED!!

[TMA62]

The easiest way for Trump to convince both the House and Senate to ditch obamacare is to administer it as it originally was intended to members of the House and Senate and their staffs: All of them are subject to obamacare. Remember them squealing like pigs sayihg that the high cost was making tough for them to get and retain staff? And the obama administration waived that requirement.

Trump should serve notice that on January 20, all of Congress will be subject to obamacare.....unless they fully repeal it.

[HarleyLady27]

I was let in on some information here in Utah that he is not only talking about obamacare, but Barky is trying to encourage the people not to ok the 304 EV votes that Trump won in the election...

I don't know anymore than that, I haven't found any ‘news’ about it, and I have looked...but I have to wonder because we know Barky will do anything to preventing President Trump to be inaugurated...just saying...keep your ears open...

This Russia thing could have been the ‘shiny object’ to get our attention away from what Barky is trying to do...

[Lurkinanloomin]

I urge the appontment of TED CRUZ to the Scalia seat on SCOTUS
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RE your tag line:
I do not want anyone appointed to the Supreme Court who does not know what natural born citizen means.
The Kenyanesian Usurpation should be proof enough of the wisdom of our founders that only a natural born citizen should be President, born here of citizen parents, no possibility of being anything else, no divided loyalties, no other possible citizenship(s), no foreign parent(s), no foreign birth.

[JBW1949]

I surely can’t wait to see how many times Obama says “I” and “my” in his speech....

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Conservatives are falling for the replacement trap. The Dems are saying we can’t repeal Obamacare unless Republicans offer a replacement. That “replacement” will simply be Obamacare that Dems will call Trumpcare.

[Cheerio]

WHY cannot Obamascare be killed using the same procedures that were used by Piglosi, Reid and Obie to pass it? It required some questionable shenanigans but they did it - what is wrong with the Repubs? GROW A SPINE.

How Obamacare Became Law

I originally posted this piece on November 21, 2013. However after yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling it began trending, so I’m reposting it:

It was the trickiest legislative move ever accomplished in the Congress. Here’s my best play-by-play:

Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. If you recall, Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic majority in the House of Representatives was unable to pass their version of a healthcare law. Because all revenue bills have to originate in the House, the Senate found a bill that met those qualifications: HR3590, a military housing bill. They essentially stripped the bill of its original language and turned it into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), aka Obamacare.

The Senate at that time had 60 Democrats, just enough to pass Obamacare. However after the bill passed the Senate, Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy died. In his place, Massachusetts elected Republican Scott Brown. That meant that if the House made any changes to the bill the Senate wouldn’t have the necessary number of votes to pass the amended bill (because they knew no Republicans would vote for Obamacare). So Senate Leader Harry Reid cut a deal with Pelosi: the House would pass the Senate bill without any changes if the Senate agreed to pass a separate bill by the House that made changes to the Senate version of Obamacare. This second bill was called the Reconciliation Act of 2010. So the House passed PPACA, the Senate bill, as well as their Reconciliation Act. At this point PPACA was ready for the President to sign, but the Senate still needed to pass the Reconciliation Act from the House.

Confused?

We all were.

And it got worse.

Remember that the Senate only had 59 votes to pass the Reconciliation Act since Republican Scott Brown replaced Democrat Ted Kennedy. Therefore in order to pass the Act Senate Democrats decided to change the rules. They declared that they could use the “Reconciliation Rule (this is a different “reconciliation” than the House bill). This rule was only supposed to be used for budget item approvals so that such items could be passed with only 51 votes in the Senate, not the usual 60.
So both of the “Acts” were able to pass both houses of Congress and sent to President Obama for his signature without a single Republican vote in favor of the legislation. The American system of governance was shafted. To quote Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee during the bill process: “We’re making up the rules as we go along.”

[trebb]

Obama -you lost, we won, get over it -— elections have consequences, dontyaknow...

[NFHale]

“... Trump should serve notice that on January 20, all of Congress will be subject to obamacare.....unless they fully repeal it...”

That’s actually brilliant... would love to see it.

[fella]

Look for McLame and Grahmcracker and other RINOs to use this repeal as a bargaining chip to help them serve mammon and baal.

[onedoug]

You can actually listen to this øbamaic piece of filth speak? You must have one hell of a constitution.

[Cobra64]

No worries. WENDLE lives in alternative universe re Cruz’ unethical back-stabbing behavior towards Carson and Trump, and has a habit of lecturing and yelling (caps) like a petulant child.

[V K Lee]

"I do not want anyone appointed to the Supreme Court who does not know what natural born citizen means."
I would go farther and extend that to those seeking election and those given voter's privileges.

We then move on to discuss and define 'anchor baby' and their status in American society of common man.

[crz]

Since it was deemed passed, I think Trump can deem it dead.

That SOB bill was never passed the right way.

[crz]

I understand that Trump has the EO drawn up to overturn ALL of Obastards EOs since the minute he was sworn in till the minute Trump is sworn in.