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Posted on 04/27/2015 7:33:06 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Many House conservatives backed the budget last month and spared GOP leaders another showdown with their right flank for one big reason: They were under the impression the spending blueprint would help them — finally — get an Obamacare repeal to the president’s desk.
Now they’re concerned that Speaker John Boehner and company have other plans.
Conservatives are adamant that reconciliation — the rarely used fast-track procedure that allows the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority rather than 60 votes — be used to pass a repeal of the health care law. They believed GOP leaders were on board.
But as House and Senate lawmakers have met to hash out a compromise budget over the past few weeks, conservatives noted that House Republican leaders have been talking about leaving their options open. An Obamacare repeal is a possibility, but so is a health care “fix” should the Supreme Court knock down some Obamacare tax credits in a case to be decided within a few months.
The ambiguity is causing consternation within the House Freedom Caucus, the few dozen conservatives who’ve repeatedly given Boehner grief over big-ticket items that have split the GOP. Some conservatives are pushing Republican leaders to clarify their intentions — with a public announcement, a provision in the budget or a private assurance.
“It’s imperative that [Obamacare repeal] be the focus for our reconciliation instructions,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) at a Heritage Foundation event last week.
House Republicans have already voted more than 50 times to try to defund, alter or overturn the health care law that conservatives despise. The latest effort, if it happens, would no doubt fail, too — and there are some indications that GOP leaders are ready to move on.
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Fear? It was a done deal when only a few stood with Cruz and Lee some time ago.
0bamacare was a done deal a couple years ago. It has become entrenched, the army of bureaucrats has been hired to administer it. Those bureaucrats are not going to go away.
The Congress cannot repeal Obamacare.
The damage is permanent.
0bamacare was a done deal a couple years ago. It has become entrenched, the army of bureaucrats has been hired to administer it. Those bureaucrats are not going to go away.
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Those unnecessary bureaucrats would be given notice and released in a New York moment if the right President was in office.
Duh.
This isn’t some glitch or ambiguity. It is abject cowardice and deceit. We gave them a second chance this past November the likes which hasn’t been seen in a half century or more and they piss it away with the sniveling drop of a hat because they don’t want to confront a half-black poser and his ghouls in Congress? They actually care more about what DC media pundits and journalists think of them than they do of their own damned constituents!
They are more interested in spending their time scheming on how to install some mealy mouthed Mexico-loving amnesty traitor into office and how Hispanics might feel about things than they are in. They only care about the power, perks, pensions and popularity where they live (that’s in DC folks). It’s a real pain for them to have to come home every 2 or 6 years and actually have to lie all throughout their districts and states about ‘what they done did to hep you all out.’
Just damn. They ain’t worth the powder.
Yeah, yeah. I know Preezy Obola would just veto it but that would only give the Republican candidate one more issue to be part of is or her campaign.
If the USSC ends up striking down the subsidies in a majority of states in the case under review, count on Republicans “fixing” it to Obama’s liking.
This comes as no surprise to me.
I (sadly) laughed at the headline.
“Giving up” implies they had some genuine intention of ever even trying to repeal it. They never did. This was the game plan from the get go. Come on, Boehner and McConnell? We knew they were liars, that they can’t be trusted on *anything*.
Again, I say to those that criticized me for refusing to vote for McConnell, DUH. Figured it out yet?
I do not see how Obamacare survives financially - it is not doing well & there are some good examples of it (see Covered California). It’s going to be interesting and more than painful to see what has to be done to keep it afloat. Personally, I think it will crash the country ... we’re well on our way to that with it affecting employment, taxes, people spending huge chunks of their income on healthcare, etc.
Here’s a link on the Covered California disaster:
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2015/04/1-billion-in-federal-tax-dollars-and.html
There are actually a number of options available to them. They refuse all because it is easier to accept and make excuses than it is to actually confront and change.
Do say they have given up on repealing Obamacare is to imply they have tried to repeal it. I know the house has voted to repeal, but aside from Ted Cruz, there has been no real effort in the Senate.
And the right Congress...which we do not have right now. And that's the problem.
Yes, there is plenty they could do along with some monkey wrenching.
Suckers.
They are cowards and scoundrels.
What I fear is when they say, “Repeal and Replace.”
The sheer stupidity. It’s astounding.
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