[ForYourChildren]

"Why the GOP is scared to repeal: Obama’s not there to protect them with a veto"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3533663/posts

[Owen]

Tidbits:

1) In Dec 2015 the Senate passed a bill through the Reconciliation process 51-whatever to “repeal Obamacare”. Well, guess what. If you read the relevant articles you’ll see that’s the headline, but the text of the articles say “repeal many of the features of Obamacare” and I went and found the bill. It read pretty much like Ryan’s. Because it had to go through Reconciliation. So all the talk you hear about full repeal was already passed through the Senate . . . didn’t happen. Those weren’t full repeal. They were parts only. A lot of right wing propaganda koolaid is being drank.

2) In a few weeks it will be necessary to pass a Continuing Resolution to keep the gov’t going. The budget arrived at by both Houses won’t survive filibuster. So as usual, a CR will have to be passed. CRs mean continue with the present budget. They will get no Dem votes because nothing from Trump will get Dem votes. And so the Freedom Caucus will have to support the CR or Social Sec checks won’t go out. Well, guess what else has to be in the CR, Obamacare’s funding for illegals.

3) I could talk about the debt ceiling, but blah blah

[jonrick46]

Thanks for the link. That was quite a contentious thread. I can imagine is Zer0 did NOT veto the 2015 repeal bill. The Republicans would have been left with their pant down. I wonder if the ACA was set up to fail so the Republicans could say, “We tried!” To me it was like building an airplane without the landing gear. It had a big flashing sign saying “Some parts missing.” It was healthcare that would have crashed and burned because it did not have an answer to the question of rising costs. I don’t have an answer but they should have consulted smarter minds than mine for that answer.