Posted on 05/07/2015 8:21:42 PM PDT by Mariner
The rumors began trickling in about a week before the scheduled vote on April 23: Republican leadership was quietly pushing senators to pull support for subpoenaing Congress’s fraudulent application to the District of Columbia’s health exchange — the document that facilitated Congress’s “exemption” from Obamacare by allowing lawmakers and staffers to keep their employer subsidies.
The application said Congress employed just 45 people. Names were faked; one employee was listed as “First Last,” another simply as “Congress.” To Small Business Committee chairman David Vitter, who has fought for years against the Obamacare exemption, it was clear that someone in Congress had falsified the document in order to make lawmakers and their staff eligible for taxpayer subsidies provided under the exchange for small-business employees.
But until Vitter got a green light from the Small Business Committee to subpoena the unredacted application from the District of Columbia health exchange, it would be impossible to determine who in Congress gave it a stamp of approval.
When Vitter asked Republicans on his committee to approve the subpoena, however, he was unexpectedly stonewalled.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
He even went as far as suggesting the behavior of this congress suggest something more sinister than just payola.
Something like blackmail or coercion.
CWII Spark Ping — Republicans are the reason we still have ObamaCare: they make excuses for it, say that they want to fix it, and claim to be fore defunding and/or repeal...
But what have they ACTUALLY done?
I think it’s less sinister: just greed.
They want money and power and they mean to get it.
“We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them...you create a nation of lawbreakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden.”
Unredeemably Corrupt.
Today Mark Levin speculated that Mitch McConnell has his fingerprints on this. This affair looks like the opening gambit of mini-Watergate that could political life very difficult for some RINOS and Dems. Rand Paul went along with it. Levin speculated Paul is protecting McConnell, who is now officially the incarnation of Harry Reid.
A parliament of whores.
BTTT!!
And people here on FR were lamblasting me for not voting Republican in November saying things like "Harry Reid thanks you for your vote" and making that stupid lesser of two evils argument, yet here we are with someone (McConnel, Republican incumbent, establishment insider) who REALLY couldn't be as bad as a newbie Democrat and... where were their rallying cries over the lesser of two evils?
I heard Mark talking about that.
Disgusting!
That's insulting to the prostitutes; they only sell their bodies, these fools sell their souls and pay with our liberties.
And another stone in the foundation of CWII is laid, by the Republicans.
Yep.
Something evil this way comes.
Something like blackmail or coercion.
You’ve got a nice little family there.....
BE A SHAME if something happened to them...
After all who knows what can happen...
as the Men in Black Suits leave the conversation..
Unless there is a true conservative running in 2016, I won’t vote republican.
The aftermath of the 2014 elections (Boohoo being reelected, then congress funding executive amnesty) proves you took the right path.
Hats off to you. You were nobody’s fool.
“as the Men in Black Suits leave the conversation..”
I thought it was as the exercise equipment left....
Thank you.
Though sometimes it’s uncomfortable about what I’m right about.
Thank goodness for Mark and his microphone.
“The White House scrambled to find a way to allow congressional employees to keep those subsidies. In Washington, D.C., only the small-business exchange allowed them to do so. After secret meetings with House speaker John Boehner in 2013, President Obama instructed the Office of Personnel Management to allow Congress to file for classification as a small business, despite the fact that the law defines a small business as having no more than 50 employees and the House and Senate together employ tens of thousands.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418055/how-five-republicans-let-congress-keep-its-fraudulent-obamacare-subsidies-brendan
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