House Republicans will again try to repeal Obamacare

[brooklynite]

Source: Salon

On Thursday, House Republicans will try again to repeal the Affordable Care Act, this time after pressure from freshman conservative members of the caucus who are frustrated that they have not yet had the chance to vote for a repeal.

This time around, House Republicans are fueled by the IRS scandal, because of the agency’s role in distributing funds from the law. The Washington Post reports:

Half of the billion dollars allocated to cover implementation of the Affordable Care Act went to the IRS. Starting in 2014, the agency will distribute subsidies for health-care coverage through state exchanges and issue penalties against individuals who do not get or businesses that do nor provide insurance.

The Post puts the count of repeal attempts at 36, with today marking the 37th, though the number is somewhat debatable because many of the attempts were not full floor votes. The Post has details on each attempt [link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/15/voting-to-repeal-over-and-over/here].

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/16/house_republicans_will_again_try_to_repeal_obamacare_2/

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DON'T tell me what happens...I want to be surprised.

[JoePhilly]

1. Usually, masturbating (repeatedly) in public gets one arrested.

But I guess its ok to do so on the House floor as frequently as one likes.

[Voice for Peace]

8. sorry to say it's an excellent analogy.

[Ted Brown]

15. Ah but sadly, not a single one of these folks will be arrested

for doing this sort of stuff.

[still_one]

2. and the Democrats should really be coming out it force exposing this ultimate waste of time and

resources.

Not only did the Supreme Court rule it Constitutional,

but the DEMOCRATS WON IN 2012

yet the meekness of the Democrats on everything is pathetic

[durablend]

3. Hey now!

Republicans will YELL if Democrats take a stand!

This of course assuming said Democrats aren't in agreement with the Republican standpoint...

[sharp_stick]

5. And what do you want them to do?

I suppose they could throw a fit on the floor, walk out, refuse to vote, pretty much take up even more time than this is going to take anyway.

Every Democrat that is interviewed talks about the waste of time and effort this is. Harry Reid accused the House Republicans of having a mental disorder because of this.

You toss the term meekness around pretty easily. You should at least list off what you think they should do to not be so "pathetic".

They can't stop the vote, they can't win the vote all they can do is go on record saying that the vote is a total waste of time which is exactly what every last one of them has done.

[still_one]

12. I want them to be forceful, and in fact angry would help also. Just looking at it from an outside

view I look at both sides.

When republicans are interviewed they show outrage. In general, when Democrats are interviewed they don't have that passion

In 2008, the Democrats ran away from ACA, even though they voted for it. That does not inspire confidence. When backass(baucus) starts trashing the ACA he help crafted, we have problems.

I heard this the other day and it is true. The republicans don't have brains, and the Democrats don't have balls

[brooklynite]

16. So you think Democrats should play up to the 1/2 % who watch C-Span?

[still_one]

19. No I think they should show passion or find another job

[liberal N proud]

4. They think they have the President over a barrel this time with all the so-called scandals.

[AndyA]

6. Talk about a waste of time and taxpayer money!

I guess there aren't any other pressing issues that need attention. Things like jobs, the economy, etc.

[Voice for Peace]

7. these people are so DUMB DUMB DUMBIDDY DUM DUM

somebody has to say it

[on point]

9. Repeal Obama Care: 37 vs Job Bills: 0 - It is pretty clear what their priorities are....

[Voice for Peace]

10. Is there any way the taxpayers can get an accounting of how congress members spend their time

in order to determine if they are earning their pay?

[oldandhappy]

11. Go T-Pubs!!!

Do what is important!! Ignore jobs and immigration and background checks.

Show us once again how pathetic you are.

[onehandle]

13. ...

[1ProudAtheist]

14. Perhaps

The pukes actually believe that bashing their heads against the wall frequently enough will actually weaken the wall before it caves in their skulls.

[PatrynXX]

17. swear that number is going down

was at 39 twice.

[BlueDemKev]

18. *YAWWWNNNN....*

Rethug losers are still fighting yesterday's battle. No wonder they can never move forward.

All they're doing is preparing for the 2014 midterms...they hope that next year will be totally chaotic since it'll be the first year the law will be fully in effect and they have laid as many roadblocks as possible to make the transition as difficult as possible. Then they can say, "See? We told you this would be a disaster. I mean, we've tried and tried to repeal this horrible law but the Senate Democrats have refused. So give us control of the Senate and then we'll repeal this bad law!"

We must be ready with a counterattack if chaos does occur. We must point out how smoothly the implementation is going in states which have set up exchanges as opposed to those states which have refused to do so (all of which are controlled by the Republicans). No playing the fiddle while the city burns....we CANNOT allow these assholes to get the upper hand in this or they will do to us in 2014 will be a repeat of 2010.

[SpankMe]

20. The leadership of that party is absolutely psycho. n/t

[ErikJ]

21. It was the GOP's baby originally. Failure of OC will look bad on THEM

So they WANT TO GET RID OF IT BEFORE THAT CAN HAPPEN.