That’s a disastrous deal for us, since the whole Congressional exemption thing is a trifle compared to the full impact of Obamacare.
That is true Jedi, but we can't stop obamacare with an attachment to a CR so this is the next best thing.
By this time next year, right before the 2014 midterms, most of the Country will be screaming for it's elimination, the free riders will love it.
Most already don't like it. My fear is that the "free riders" will tip the scale in the other direction. And a portion of the opposition to it already wants a pure "free ride" with single payer, to take the "evil" corporations out of the picture entirely. They and the Democrat party will blame the "evil" corporations for raising premium rates. It'd take something of a miracle for those people to ever vote for a Republican to reform Obamacare. Of course, our advantage in a mid-term is that the libs have a hard time getting the low-info "free riders" to show up at the polls. If they ever figure out how to mobilize them in a mid-term the way they did last year, we're in trouble. Bill Cunningham tonight on the radio was explaining how the extended voting times from a day to weeks as well as absentee voting is all designed to help the Dems mobilize those low info voters. Obama's stormtroopers can do 30 times as much work to drag people to the polls if they have 30 days to do it vs. just one day.