Boehner, Ryan vow GOP House will press ahead with ObamaCare repeal effort

Fox News ^ | 7/1/12

[SoFloFreeper]

GOP House leaders said Sunday they will forge ahead with efforts to repeal President Obama’s health care law, drawing criticism from Democratic lawmakers who said Americans want them to instead go forward with efforts to improve the economy.

“We’re going to do it one more time,” House Speaker John Boehner said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

The GOP-led House has attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act numerous times and is scheduled to take up the issue again July 11, less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled the law was constitutional.

[hinckley buzzard]

get all the democrats who still support it on record.

I would expect an overwhelming 'rat vote to repeal. After all, they know full well that it will never see the light of day in the Senate, so why not vote against it now, get the monkey off their backs, and move on.

[lodi90]

"Besides, I don't see how their hearts can really be in it when it doesn't affect them because they're already exempt"

A far better tactical maneuver by the House would be a one page bill adding all federal employees to obamacare with no exemptions. Then have the dims explain why they are against such "fairness".

But Boehner has been studying the John Roberts school of lightweight politics and we get another meaningless vote. More fluff that can be easily deflected by the dims as election year posturing. Stupid party indeed.

[Steely Tom]

GOP House leaders said Sunday they will forge ahead with efforts to repeal President Obama’s health care law, drawing criticism from Democratic lawmakers who said Americans want them to instead go forward with efforts to improve the economy.

This is exactly what the Democrats would be doing if this scandal had taken place under a Republican president.

Lead on House GOP leaders.

[Venturer]

Getting rid of Obamacare WILL help the economy.

Obamacare is one reason the economy is bad and getting worse.

[MayflowerMadam]

Before acting on anything, the GOP players need to do some kick-ass PR in venues where democrat idiots frequent, i.e., reality shows, inane sit-coms, NPR, soap opera, CNN, etc. Use third-grade English. Make them understand the truth. To act without more support would be an exercise in futility.

[cripplecreek]

A far better tactical maneuver by the House would be a one page bill adding all federal employees to obamacare with no exemptions. Then have the dims explain why they are against such "fairness"

Make sure it includes all special interest groups, PACs, and companies lobbying congress. Far too much lobbying is being done by people who get exemptions from the very laws they support.

[mrsmel]

That would be a great idea, and might actually even work, so they’d never do it.

[mrsmel]

Make sure it includes all special interest groups, PACs, and companies lobbying congress. Far too much lobbying is being done by people who get exemptions from the very laws they support.

If the self-appointed elite don't keep the rest of us busy working to support ourselves and their chosen blocs-for-votes, we might have too much time on our hands to notice what they're up to and time to actually fight to oppose them. As it is, only the entitlement bloodsuckers and unemployed hippies of all ages have time to "occupy" and harrass law-abiding taxpaying working people.

[longtermmemmory]

but now as a tax, the filibuster rules are different.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

A cautionary note to all:

There have never been any freebies that have ever been repealed.

[SoConPubbie]

Yea, because Boehner is such a reliable defender of conservative principles and really holds the line when the pressure hits. <\GIVE ME A BIG FAT BREAK>

[Forrestfire]

Not a good thing!! The dems in close elections will have cover to vote for repeal, as they know that it will never be voted on in the senate. Instead concentrate on those remaining in office that voted for it when it was passed, THEY HAVE A RECORD, now make them defend it!!!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

GOP House leaders said Sunday they will forge ahead with efforts to repeal President Obama’s health care law, drawing criticism from Democratic lawmakers who said Americans want them to instead go forward with efforts to improve the economy.

1) Two years worth of polls show that Americans want Obamacare repealed. They didn't want it passed in the first place and they wanted the Supreme Court to strike it down. Maybe the Democrats should, for once, actually listen to what the American people want instead of telling them what they want.

2) Repealing Obamacare will improve the economy in a huge way.

Hopefully someone, somewhere in the GOP will be bright enough to hammer on these two obvious points repeatedly without worrying like a neurotic that someone on the Sunday morning talk shows will insult them. And hopefully that someone will be inspire John Roberts to go find some fragment of a spine.

[vaudine]

My question--Why didn't Boehner and other leaders get behind Bachmann when she wanted them to kill the appropriations bill to implement Obamacare?

Probably for the same reason they didn't block Campaign Finance Reform--looking to the SC to block it. But they failed on that, too. The SC said although the Campaign Finance Reform Act DID abrogate freedom of speech, the evils of so much money in politics was the greater evil, so they woud allow a slight curtailing of free speech.

How can the SC iterpret the law, when they refuse to follow the Constitution. There is no such thing as a slight infringement on freedom of speech, just as there is no Constitutional way to allow for Obamacare.

vaudine

[SoFloFreeper]

You’ve got to be kidding. The Senate hasn’t passed a budget in three years...Harry Reid is the biggest boob (next to Obamugabe) in D.C.

[afraidfortherepublic]

[09Patriot]

My question--Why didn't Boehner and other leaders get behind Bachmann when she wanted them to kill the appropriations bill to implement Obamacare?

I am glad someone brought this up.. all you guys pinning hope on these idiots when we have seen proof that they will do what they say. I am thinking the best thing to do is participate in making the whole thing crash. give the dems everything they want, there wont be nothing left to support them in a few years.

[angcat]

Freeper has been taken over by trolls. It seems not much Zapping going on these days and they are pilling up making the site like DU.

[PapaBear3625]

I will only believe they are sincere when it actually happens. It’s an old legislative trick to propose legislation that you know has no chance of actually passing, to make yourself look god to your constituency. What counts is how you vote when something needs every vote to pass, and will go into effect if passed.

[cripplecreek]

I’ll be glad when the election is over and Decon will be spread around in abundance.

One thing you can say about FR, we don’t lock the doors for elections like the DU.