Wed Jul 11, 2012, 04:40 PM
onehandle (35,409 posts)
Health Care Repeal Bill Passes GOP-Controlled House, Has No Shot In Senate
Source: AP
WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House has voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. But the election-year move stands no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate. The vote Wednesday was 244-185. By the Republican count, it was the 33rd time in 18 months that the tea party-infused GOP majority has tried to scrap, defund or scale back the law since grabbing the majority. The vote came two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that the law – Obama's signature domestic achievement – was constitutional. Republicans criticized the law as a job-killing threat to the economic recovery. Democrats said repeal would eliminate consumer protections that already have improved the lives of millions. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/health-care-repeal-bill_n_1665710.html
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21 replies, 2521 views
| Author | Time | Post | |
| onehandle | Jul 2012 | OP | |
| The Velveteen Ocelot | Jul 2012 | #1 | |
| NRaleighLiberal | Jul 2012 | #2 | |
| canuckledragger | Jul 2012 | #5 | |
| Andy823 | Jul 2012 | #6 | |
| Drunken Irishman | Jul 2012 | #3 | |
| judesedit | Jul 2012 | #4 | |
| ProgressiveEconomist | Jul 2012 | #11 | |
| alp227 | Jul 2012 | #7 | |
| Blanks | Jul 2012 | #13 | |
| Posteritatis | Jul 2012 | #8 | |
| judesedit | Jul 2012 | #9 | |
| ProgressiveEconomist | Jul 2012 | #10 | |
| Woody Woodpecker | Jul 2012 | #17 | |
| elbloggoZY27 | Jul 2012 | #12 | |
| Skittles | Jul 2012 | #14 | |
| mrmpa | Jul 2012 | #15 | |
| Woody Woodpecker | Jul 2012 | #16 | |
| Spike89 | Jul 2012 | #18 | |
| joanbarnes | Jul 2012 | #19 | |
| harun | Jul 2012 | #20 | |
| lovuian | Jul 2012 | #21 |
Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 04:42 PM
The Velveteen Ocelot (34,721 posts)
1. More wasteful, stupid political theatre.
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Have I ever mentioned how much I hate Republican politicians?
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Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 04:45 PM
NRaleighLiberal (28,605 posts)
2. Do they realize they are demonstrating the definition of insanity?
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Last edited Wed Jul 11, 2012, 04:45 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) oh yes - and where are those jobs? huh? |
Response to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #2)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 05:00 PM
canuckledragger (279 posts)
5. gotta post it for clarity
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Response to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #2)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 05:01 PM
Andy823 (4,697 posts)
6. Oh yeah
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Wasn't it Boehner who kept on saying he number one priority if republicans took over the House would be "JOBS"? He keeps on saying they are doing the "will of the people", yet the majority of people are tired of all the BS over trying to repeal the health care bill, and the vast majority of americans want something done about JOBS, not political theater!
I hope this backfires big time for the republicans, and I hope the people back home show them just how tired they are of the games they have been playing since president Obama was elected. Tired of the "number one priority" being to make president Obama a one term president no matter how much damage it has done to this country! While they are catering the tea party morons in their base, and doing their best to privatize the whole damned country for their rich donors, they people are still suffering and are getting mad as hell with congress. Do they really think that anyone with half a brain is going to think they are doing the right things to help solve any of the problems the country faces? |
Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 04:47 PM
Drunken Irishman (24,587 posts)
3. So glad this will create jobs...
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Oh wait.
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Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 04:57 PM
judesedit (1,190 posts)
4. Job-killing? NOT! Demand creates jobs. More insured. More demand for drs, nurses, orderlies, aides
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supplys, suppliers, drivers, and on and on. Wake up, America. Aren't you sick of being bullshitted and brainwashed by these selfish egotistical racist puppets that call themselves Congresspeople? You know, the ones with the excellent healthcare policies WE pay for. Vote the creeps out of office and put some people in there who care about the MAJORITY of this country. Thank you very much.
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Response to judesedit (Reply #4)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:08 PM
ProgressiveEconomist (5,077 posts)
11. And "job-lock" breaking. One of the few CBO statistics the Rs
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Last edited Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:09 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) like to quote is that employment and labor force particiapation would be 800,000 lower in 10 years through ONE mechanism of the ACA. But the Rs always omit the reason why: 800,000 is the CBO-estimated number of people who would have wanted to retire but could not before the ACA made it possible to afford health insurance not tied to a job they hate.
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Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 05:38 PM
alp227 (20,427 posts)
7. I expect a "Do-nothing Congress" ad soon.
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Last edited Wed Jul 11, 2012, 05:39 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) That ad would put together clips like Mitch McConnell saying about his fellow Senate CONS: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." And Darrell Issa saying about the subpoena power he'd have as chairman a few months before the 2010 congress elections: "I won't use it to have corporate America live in fear that we're going to subpoena everything. I will use it to get the very information that today the White House is either shredding or not producing." And Rush Limbaugh's comment in 2009 about wanting Obama to fail. And then in rapid-fire succession all 30 or so screencaps of C-SPAN showing the votes by the House to repeal ObamaCare. It's the vote count whenever you watch congressional proceedings on TV like
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Response to alp227 (Reply #7)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:47 PM
Blanks (1,351 posts)
13. I'd hold that ad until after the ACA rebates. eom
Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 05:52 PM
Posteritatis (17,277 posts)
8. "33rd time in 18 months" That's just extra-special levels of pathetic right there. (nt)
Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 05:57 PM
judesedit (1,190 posts)
9. A bunch of immature robot bimbos wasting our time and our money as usual
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VOTE THESE IMBECILES OUT OF OFFICE ASAP!
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Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:00 PM
ProgressiveEconomist (5,077 posts)
10. The "good news": Democratic Party unity--only 5 defected
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Last edited Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:02 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) and voted with the Republicans:
We'll have to see whether all but these 5 defectors run campaigns that support the ACA, not just fail to vote to repeal it. From http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/house/2/460 : No Votes (185 Democrats) Yes Votes (244, including 5 Democrats) ------------------------------------------------- Dan Boren .... D OK-2 Larry Kissell ... D NC-8 Jim Matheson .D UT-2 Mike McIntyre . D NC-7 Mike Ross ..... D AR-4 Did Not Vote ---------------- John A. Boehner R OH-8 Jo Bonner R AL-1 Jesse L. Jackson Jr.D IL-2 |
Response to ProgressiveEconomist (Reply #10)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 07:05 PM
Woody Woodpecker (562 posts)
17. Boren, Kissell, Matheson, McIntyre, and Ross
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will now face defeat.
Why get a Republican Lite when you can get the real thing? Two years, their Republican counterparts will be defeated and replaced with true progressives/Democrats. |
Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:37 PM
elbloggoZY27 (283 posts)
12. GOP Another NO
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This GOP Agenda is so ridiculous that it defies logic of any kind. Here is a group that has health care but could care less about those who do not. They killed Catastrophic Health Care in the 1980's so this is just a repeat of the same old junk.
To this Vietnam Veteran what should be repealed is the GOP. Just another dumb vote from a do nothing group of politicians. I give the GOP Rating of F- on this. |
Response to elbloggoZY27 (Reply #12)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:54 PM
Skittles (86,279 posts)
14. WELCOME TO DU, elbloggoZY27!
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for sure you know the score
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Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:56 PM
mrmpa (1,823 posts)
15. Who were the 5 pissant Democrats............
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who voted to repeal it?
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Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 07:04 PM
Woody Woodpecker (562 posts)
16. So the GOP continues to fail to do what it promised their constitutent to do..
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CREATE JOBS!
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Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 07:27 PM
Spike89 (1,478 posts)
18. Almost always a few "dissident" voters
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It isn't always obvious why they voted as they did. This is especially true when the vote is essentially meaningless, i.e., no chance of passing the senate. I don't know the 5, don't know their rationale, but would be willing to hear what they say. Could be they want it repealed so we might have a chance at a single-payer system? Maybe in their district the ACA is extremely unpopular and they can get "cover" through a harmless vote so they will be in the seat when they truly are needed?
Even if they are "republican lite" the question is, are they in a district where any one more progressive stands a chance. I'd rather have a wishy-washy Democrat than a rabid tea-party jerk. The wishy-washy guy may not help much, but isn't going to be as damaging in most cases. |
Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:35 PM
joanbarnes (529 posts)
19. Repukes continue to commit treason, refuse to do the job they were elected to do.
Response to onehandle (Original post)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:54 PM
lovuian (18,360 posts)
21. I love how the Republicans are on self destruct
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attacking Obamacare will be their destruction
they don't talk about denial of preexisting conditions or children healthcare Let them self destruct |


