The House Rules Committee has scheduled an “emergency” meeting Monday evening to consider the Repeal of Obamacare Act.
The meeting is considered an emergency because the bill has not even been introduced yet. Congress is on recess this week, set to return Monday.
The bill “to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010″ is sponsored by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
“The law imposes 21 new or higher taxes on American families and businesses, including 12 taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year,” the bill states. “…The path to patient-centered care and lower costs for all Americans must begin with a full repeal of the law.”
It also notes the controversy over mandated coverage of birth control without a co-payment.
“Until enactment of the law, the Federal Government has not sought to impose specific coverage or care requirements that infringe on the rights of conscience of insurers, purchasers of insurance, plan sponsors, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders, such as individual or institutional health care providers. The law creates a new nationwide requirement for health plans to cover ‘essential health benefits’ and ‘preventive services’, but does not allow stakeholders to opt out of covering items or services to which they have a religious or moral objection, in violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (Public Law 103–141).”
The bill does not mention last week’s Supreme Court ruling.
The losers now prove they’re sore losers. (That they’re also liars is a given.)
Patriot? — I don’t think you should be calling the American people liars.
It’s ok to call American politicians liars though.
Patriot – Pelosi had to persuade her own liberal buds to vote the bill in – not one Republican voted for it – so right now they are trying to correct a seriously flawed bill – even Pelosi said you can read what is in it after it is passed. The bill for this fraud falls on those who make less than $ 175,000 – so guess who will be paying for this lie – those who actually work for a living not the 1 per cent – not those who work for the government – they will keep their cover everything policies.
I assume he is writing about the dims and their “big lie” fascist in chief.
Roberts said: you passed it, you repeal it, stop making us the fall guy for you.
Sounds like they are taking his advice…
If it failed to properly follow parliamentary rules in the first place…especially since it IS a tax, then it could not have properly passed and must be recalled.
It failed to present itself as a tax, therefore one of the MANDATORY requirements…that it be marked up as a TAX and how it impacts the citizens it seeks to TAX…MAKES THE BILL FATALLY FLAWED.
It MUST be repealed. It cannot stand as a tax.
If Obama and Pelosi and Reid want to present it anew…in the ONLY form it remains “constitutional”…they will have to re-present it…marked up and budgeted…as a TAX.
This is EXACTLY what Roberts’ ruling did to the Democrats. Now, the Republicans have to hit this softball out of the park.
Ok, I am against Obamacare as much – if not more than – anyone else you can find. However, I fail to see what having a vote now accomplishes.
It will never make it past the Senate as long as Harry Reid and the democrats are in control.
We need a republican controlled House and Senate – and a Republican president – in order for this kind of vote to go anywhere.
In case nobody has noticed, we don’t have that right now.
If the intent is to put democrats on the record right before the election, fine, but don’t try to make it sound like a serious effort at repealing this piece of crap legislation.
This is a vote for January 2013.
I fail to see what having a vote now accomplishes.
It forces all the members of the House to do what Roberts did last week – pick a side and publicly annouce it.
Good to know before voting for someone, eh? Would’ve been nice to know that about Roberts before his confirmation hearing. Too late for that now. Too late to know about Congressmen after the election too.
Yes. Putting ObamaTax to the vote now is crucial and what my representatives do will determine how I vote in the fall.
Hate to give the plot away this early, but I’ve already seen this movie. It goes something like this:
House holds a vote, and democrats in shaky districts get the nod to vote against it in order to shore up support amongst voters who are pi$$ed off this legislation became law in the first place. This allows them to run home and claim they voted against Obamacare. If they previously voted for the law, they can claim to have seen the light and have subsequently voted against it. All safe votes of course as they know it will never get through the senate.
If anything, this only helps democrat Representatives by giving them an opportunity to muddy the narrative, and democrats in liberal strongholds can safely continue to vote in favor of Obamacare. They get to have it both ways, and by taking this path they help their re-election chances. Once safely past November, this vote can come up again and you can fully expect them to flip once more and vote as a block in favor of Obamacare when an election is not breathing down their necks.
How does this help Republicans, exactly?
So let’s say in some weird alternate universe that this bill passes the House, what then?
It goes before the Senate, who don’t want to touch it with a 10 foot pole. But since we are in an alternate reality, let’s say it is put up for a vote by the entire Senate.
First off, I have little confidence the Republican Senators will close ranks and vote reliably to repeal. There will always be a John McCain out there stumbling over baby carriages as he charges towards any news camera with a red light shining.
But let’s say they DO vote as a bloc to repeal, they still need some Democrat Senators.
Not likely to happen.
If it does, expect the same gaming of the system to take place, wherein Democrat Senators in shaky districts get to vote against Obamacare – but always with the understanding that the Democrat majority retains enough votes to keep it off Obummer’s desk.
Again, as with the House vote, the Democrat Senators in shaky districts get to run home to their constituents and cry crocadile tears about how they voted against Obamacare but just couldn’t get enough votes pulled together to repeal it.
Oh, and it helps their re-election chances in the meantime.
Once more, how is this helpful to republicans?
But again, we are in bizarroworld, so let’s assume even THAT happens and the bill gets through the Senate, probably on a razors edge vote. What hbappens next?
The repeal bill hits Oblamo’s desk and he immediately vetos it.
His supporters are stoked as not only did the evil right get skunked in the SCOTUS, Obammer got to smack em again by vetoing their repeal effort! Way to get the democrat base energized, republicans!
The opposite, of course, occurring amongst the republican base as they are handed yet another loss – and don’t assume for a second the left won’t take every opportunity to rub it in and make sure the idea becomes firmly implanted that Obamacare is permanent and irrevocable.
How does this help the political right?
I stand by my assertion – this should be done in January. We already know who voted for the bill last time, no need to give them an out. Instead, trumpet their voting record every day with specific reminders of how this tax or that regulation is going to impact the middle class. Those at or below the poverty level are not going to willingly give up their freebie, and the so-called 1% are too few to make a difference in the voting booth.
This leaves the middle class, and even the liberal segment of the middle class needs to have their eyes pried open to see what repercussions are coming down the road.
According to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) Boehner and David Drier blocked him from adding an amendment to some must-sign bill in the House, about one month after the Obamcare was shoved down our throats. Since the day Obamacare was passed House “leadership” has been *talking* about repeal. Yet, one month after it passed they blocked an amendment to prevent one dollar or one bureaucrat from being used to implement Obamacare.
The Ruling Class members always have a reason why today’s fight is no big deal. It is tomorrow’s fight that counts and tomorrow is when then will have steel spines and clever minds. Then tomorrow arrives and they tell us today’s fight isn’t a big deal it’s tomorrow’s fight we must prepare for. Wash, rinse, and repeat X1000.
We rightly have contempt for liberals when they don’t notice socialism doesn’t work, yet they suggest more socialism. When are we going to notice that we keep falling for our side’s failed plan over and over. You will know the GOP are serious when they throw out Boehner, Drier, and McConnell. Until then they just make excuses and rush to surrender. They make the French look like Navy SEALS.