I appreciate your view, but I see it differently.
It’s my understanding that the house is coordinating its actions with states controlled by Republicans. Here’s how it works:
States are refusing to implement obamacare. That means that the federal government must set up exchanges in the states using federal money. The House is refusing to approve money for that. In addition, the House is defunding obamacare by refusing to provide money for organizing obamacare.
With the states and republican house refusing to kick in money, we are creating the perfect storm that will sink obamacare. It’s not as sexy as voting to repeal obamacare in whole, but this strategy will have the same effect.
Of course, I could be wrong and am interested in hearing your reply.
The first thing he bragged about was H.R. 4 which repealed the 1099 feature of Obamacare. First of all, H.R. 4 is NOT NEW — it was enacted in April 2011, over two years ago. The Democrats WANTED the 1099 feature repealed and John Boehner foolishly accommodated them. The Obamacare 1099 provision expanded the 1099 reporting requirements to include all payments from businesses aggregating $600 or more in a calendar year to a single payee and was to go into effect for all payments made after Dec 31, 2011 (i.e., in the election year of 2012). It would have caused chaos (which wouldn't have been good) but it would almost certainly have resulted in very different outcomes in the 2012 election. IMHO the Presidency, the Senate and the House would be in Republican hands today had that provision gone into effect and had the spineless Republicans forced the Democrats to OWN Obamacare. Obama would by now have been repealed in its entirety.
The sad thing is that some of us who don't agree with Boehner’s approach (as laid out in the linked Boehner office propaganda piece) and expressed our views in this thread were attacked by fellow FReepers with claims that we must not have read the linked item.