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Posted on 02/02/2015 6:30:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an “Obamacare Repeal Act” that would repeal the Affordable Care Act “as if such Act had not been enacted.”
The text of Cruz’s bill to repeal the 2,700-page law — which spawned another 10,000 pages of regulations — barely runs onto the third page. It comes as Republicans have debated whether to use a procedural tactic that circumvents filibusters known as reconciliation to repeal the legislation.
“This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty,” Cruz says in a statement on the bill. “It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable.”
The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and several leading members of the Obamacare working group that is mulling the GOP’s possible response to a major anti-Obamacare lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court. If the Court rules against the administration, Americans who enrolled in Obamacare through the federal exchanges would not qualify for subsidies.
“We must send this bill to the president’s desk,” Cruz adds. “If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us.”
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"We must send this bill to the president’s desk," Cruz adds. "If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us."Cruz gets it.
"Timid" cry baby congress critters won't send a bill along if Obama threatens to veto it.
So what? Get in his face and make him say NO NO NO...turn it around on them is the ticket, the dems are the party of NO!
It will eventually show that some in congress have some guts and are not intimidated by veto talk.
There are probably still several hundred bills now on McConnell's desk in the senate that Reid would not let the senate vote on, send them along too!
Enough with dictators in congress and the white house, let the people be heard!
Boehner over the weekend on TV said the republicans do NOT have an alternative to Obamacare.
Not true at all many have been proposed, he's a left leaning capitulator afraid of Obama.
Indeed, that is the key. Make them own this thing. Make it plain as day to the American people that it is the Democrats shackling them with it. SLASH AND BURN!
Absent repeal of 12,700+ pages of (law & regs & more law & regs) TOTALITARIANCARE each member of CONgre$$ should have XXX pages shoved up their rear until it comes out the other end and they choke on it. USSC (United States Socialist Cons) can have some, too. The IRS (Internal Revenue for Socialists), too. Socialists FORCE tax, spend, subjugate, kill methods on the citizens of a “free” republic.
The game is on. Watch it.
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Good. Kill it.
McConnell is a co sponsor.
Why include the homo-pervert Freddie Mercury in your gifs?
Who are the Republicans that are not supporting it right now? Seems to me we need to put some serious pressure on them.
Scott Walker gave a good speech and is getting some looks right now, but it is way too early to be peaking. If he somehow manages to stay on top after the media gets critical and he goes through the gauntlet of debate “King of the Hill”, he will have earned it. I wouldn’t worry about it. Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich were in the same position much later in the process. If you are a Ted Cruz guy, as I am, you want Jeb spending his money going after Walker and Cruz flying under the radar right now. You want Cruz to get into the mix at a point in the process where he can go directly to the people and fend off the attacks without filter. The media (including Fox News) will have their knives out for him once he gets a look. Better that happen when there are debates and the campaign is in full swing.
So true, the Republican Party is Obama’s biggest supporter. They have never rejected him and never will. But Republican primary voters do not understand this treachery. The familiar name is all that these little voters can comprehend.
I also fear that Abbott will betray conservatives before too much longer. It’s just a gut feeling.
Several of the names on this list are possible reversals when the final vote might come if it ever does. I was thinking in particular of one Orrin Grant Hatch who claims to “represent” UT.
Really?!
Oh My Gosh! That is almost unbelievable!
I bet you had Doctor House Calls back then didn't you?
OK, except that here is the text of the legislation and I don't see the "180 days after enactment" part. It just says that the bills are repealed and everything goes back to as if the bill was never passed. So what happens to all those people who lost their coverage and got forced onto Obamacare? They lose their coverage the day after the bill goes into effect. They can't go back to what they had because those policies don't exist anymore.
I love Ted Cruz and I hope to be voting for him a year from November. But the time has come to stop the lose rhetoric and start proposing real solutions.
The only reason why McConnell is a co-sponsor is because he doesn't expect this bill to go anywhere. It'll be filibustered.
Thanks for that info.
Article says McConnell is one of the 44 who co-sponsored it. I guess he’s leaving it up to Boehner to kill it?
It always seemed odd to me that “compassionate” democrats would tax “medical devices” artificial limbs, knees, hips, ostomy bags, breathing equipment, etc.
“Article says McConnell is one of the 44 who co-sponsored it. I guess he’s leaving it up to Boehner to kill it?”
It’s too common sense and and simple, something that will resonate with the electorate, more than just Conservatives. mConnell can’t afford to oppose it.
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