The White House may not be marking the second anniversary of President Obama’s healthcare reform law with much fanfare, but one senator made sure to revive Vice President Joe Biden’s famous characterization of ObamaCare.
“Two years ago at the Obama health care bill signing the Vice President was overheard telling President Obama, ‘This is a big ‘effing’ deal,’” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said. “Unfortunately for them, two years later, the vast majority of Americans believe this has become a big ‘effing’ mess.”
Graham continued the “broken promises” theme of congressional Republicans in marking the law’s birthday. He noted the new Congressional Budget Office projections about the cost of the law, rising healthcare premiums, selective waivers issued by the administration, and projected job losses due to the law.
“I’ve met with thousands of South Carolina business owners and job creators in the two years since this was passed into law,” said Graham. “I’m still waiting for the first business owner to come tell me Obamacare has helped them create jobs. It just hasn’t happened.”
I’m surprised we haven’t heard a lot more noise about these “waivers”. Bills of Attainder are specifically forbidden by the constitution, and it seems to me that exempting some people (ie your friends and contributors) from the law is functionally the same thing.
Where exactly do they claim the authority to issue these waivers comes from? Or is it just more of the progressive’s “the constitution means whatever we want it to mean” BS?
“Where exactly do they claim the authority to issue these waivers comes from?”
You mean you still haven’t read the bill that must be passed before we can find out what’s in it? I’m sure the waiver provision is in there somewhere.
Kinda helps the Democrooks’ “commerce clause” defense… “See, the bill is commerce-related because it’s screwing up commerce!”
Lindsey Graham-nesty has been laying low it seems lately. I think the fact that conservatives have been suffering buyers remorse here in SC has him trying to prove himself. He used to be an up-and-comer, now DeMint gets all the press. Graham still has a long way to go to prove he’s not a RINO to South Carolinians.
Sen. Grahamnesty would do well to keep his mouth shut on this issue. He cast the deciding vote in the senate for GW Bush’s multi-billion dollar prescription drug program debacle.
to top it all off, I was reading earlier today how him, McCain and Liebermann are piushing for us to stay the course in Afghanistan! Now there’s three politicians that need replacing!