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The battle over ObamaCare got so dirty Tuesday that Democrats leaked embarrassing e-mails showing how Republican House Speaker John Boehner hid his efforts to protect long-standing health-care subsidies for members of Congress and their staffers. Boehner publicly demanded an end to those benefits on Monday, as the GOP continued its trench warfare against ObamaCare. “Why don’t we make sure that every American is treated just like we are?” he asked. But e-mails from February to July showed how Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lobbied President Obama to save the subsidies — setting up a meeting so secret that...

Untouchable. That’s the treatment being given to the $23.6 billion being spent right now to implement Obamacare. This $23.6 billion is part of the $105.5 billion appropriated by the last Congress to fund Obamacare. The remainder (Think of it as post-dated checks for the other $81.9 billion.) automatically becomes available between now and FY2019. None of this is to be confused with an additional $115 billion authorized for additional appropriation to Obamacare—but which the current Congress is unlikely to provide. The most pressing question, however, is whether any of the current $23.6 billion will be rescinded as part of the...