Obamacare repeal document drop: Waiver-mania for all!
The House Republicans have announced their plans to put the Obamacare repeal up for a vote during the week of January 10, 2011. This evening they posted the text of the proposed legislation to the GOP House Committee on Rules website.
Here it is, all two pages of it:
Finally: Obamacare Waiver-mania for the rest of us.
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The official title of the bill: The ‘Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”
I liked Amanda Carpenter’s proposed titled better: “The Great American Waiver Act.”
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Gear up: A procedural vote will take place Friday.
Senate Dems are digging in.
Heh. Doug Ross reacts to the dictator Senate Dems: “I may have missed this part of Schoolhouse Rock, but I didn’t think the Senate could tell the House what to do.”
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It starts……..
…thank God.
I hope no one is setting their hopes to high based on this. The bill will be hard pressed to make it out of the Senate and then “The One” will veto it. The only real hope of getting rid of Obama Care before Jan 2013 is the Supreme Court declaring most, if not all of it unconstitutional.
The bill still needs to be pushed through so we make the Dims and Rinos go on record, but that’s all it can do.
Two pages long? It’s not possible for such a bill to come out of Washington. I don’t have time to read it all in the amount of time they’ve given.
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The Kabuki Theater opens on Wednesday. The DemocRATs who got a “free” no vote on the real ObamaCare bill can vote yes on this knowing that Comrade Obama will veto it–they need political cover.
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The rubber really hits the road when the House funding actions start. Like not raising the debt ceiling–which will force defunding parts of this monstrosity.
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The tea just hit the water–and it’s going to be a long 2 years to the Nov. 2012 election. And there are a lot of RINO’s and traitors in the woods.
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John Bibb
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It’s a bone to throw to the base.
Obamacare won’t go voluntarily.
Another election is necessary to repeal it.
Romneycare ain’t gonna cut it, either.
Good starting point.
Now, what they need to do after this vote is …
Tag these 2 pages onto the deficit limit raising bill!
That is what I would call compromise!
It might be easier to remove the marxist usurper.
Ineligible means he’s not really the President and nothing with his signature is valid.
Let Barry veto lots of them. The more he vetoes, the more likely he won’t be re-elected.
We are restless and relentless.
It does, but is it serious or Kabuki?
Is that the spirit of bipartisanship they keep talking about?
One can only pray that it is dead serious.
The Senate has no idea how serious, does it?
They don’t, particularly on the left side of the aisle, but the silver lining is as AG pointed out….there goes the bipartisanship.
I hope the bill is the opening shot in a long barrage, and not a range finder.
Back on October 19th, 2010 I said:
The bill above is a tad longer (2 pages instead of 1 sentence), but I like it.
It will pass the House easily. And it could possibly even pick up enough Dems to achieve a 2/3 vote (Remember, some of the Dems voted against Obamacare when it passed, and even some who voted for it then might now vote against it… many Dems who just won re-election are going to have a bigger fight for re-election in 2012 as the result of Republican-led redistricting in their state).
Once it passes the House, it will be a fight to get it to a floor vote in the Senate. Harry Reid will do everything in his power to prevent it from coming to a floor vote, but if it does, I think that out of the 23 Democrat Senators who will have to face re-election in 2012, we’ll get enough to pass the bill and send it to Obama.
When Obama vetoes it, it really, truly will be “OBAMACARE”,
because he alone would be responsible for it not being repealed.
Could both the Senate and the House reach 2/3 majorities to override the veto? Maybe.
Difficult? Yes.
Impossible? No.
But Obama and his thugs will use every possible blackmail and “persuasion of power” that they have in order to prevent the repeal.
But this is a battle worth fighting. Even if we lose the battle now, it puts everyone on record and sets the stage for the 2012 elections and a true repeal in January 2013.
This is meant to cast all eyes to the state of the failed economic policies of boy wonder. Me likey.
On January 3rd, 2011 at 11:45 pm, Virginia Patriot said:
After the House finishes reading the Constitution, I’d really like to see them take seriously and support and defend:
They’ve never seriously addressed the question of whether or not Obama and Biden qualify to hold the office, even though it is their Constitutional responsibility and duty to do so.
Note that “the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified”.
Well, how is Congress to know when to provide for that case? Isn’t it implicit that they must first determine whether or not the President and Vice President QUALIFY to hold the office?
A “natural born citizen” is a citizen by “Natural Law”. A person born a subject of another country, as Obama admits he was, is NOT a “natural born citizen” of the U.S.A., regardless of their birth location.
Our nation was founded on
The Laws of Nature (Natural Law)
and the Laws of Nature’s God (Biblical Law).
Let’s pay some respect to our Founders, to the Declaration of Independence, to Natural Law, and to the Constitution.
Obama is not a “natural born citizen”, even if he is a “native born citizen”. There is a difference, and it matters.
And I agree with Virginia Patriot that nothing with the signature of a usurper is valid.
I gave a Schoolhouse Rock DVD (Special 30th Anniversary Edition) as a Christmas present to some boys between the ages of 6 and 12.
They all loved it.
Force every member of Congress to choose whose side they are on… that of the majority of the electorate, or that of the minority of Democratic Socialist Communist “Progressives”.
Voters will remember this vote when the Congress member(s) (is/are) up for re-election.
After the Tsunami in 2010, you might see more Democrats than you expected vote to override the veto.
That is, if they care about being re-elected in 2012/2014.
Win or lose, this is a battle worth fighting.
Agree. At first he may seem to be getting some kind of decent publicity from showing his muscle, but his skin is so thin, the tension will begin to show and wear on him. The GOP needs to be the aggressor. And the House has the leverage.
It needs to be bill after bill cutting programs and cutting the budget. Force the Dems to justify EVERYTHING. Put up bills to cancel waivers for example and to force equal protection. Do corruption charges on activities that favor unions and certain corporations. Start pushing an energy policy and over rule EPA rules. Just hammer and let Pelosi and Franks whine.
There is no need for a jobs bill, except to reduce government jobs. Get out of the way, and let the private sector produce jobs.
Bring it on, GOP!
We need to pass this bill to see what’s in it!
Did D’oh!bama just vow to keep us safe from peanut butter?
I just hope the GOP keeps sending this bill forward to the Senate for them to consider over and over and make Reid and the Democrats own it (either by refusal to vote on it or by them voting it down). If it makes it to Obama (I doubt it will) then let him own it by having to veto it over and over.
My only fear is that the GOP will try it once, it wont get to the floor of the Senate and that will be it. No more bills to repeal Obamacare; instead we will get platitudes from the GOP of how they tried.
No, their idea of bipartisanship is us rolling over and playing dead; aka McCainia.
From the link “Senate Dems are Digging in”: “Maybe it’s [the mandate to buy insurance] not ideal — it’s certainly not communism,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said of the individual mandate…”
There we go, the new standard by which Dems now measure their legislation, if it’s not communism, then bah..it’s ok. Save us from these sick treacherous people.
I would like to see a piece by piece dismantling of Obamacare, because repealing the entire law has no chance of being done. I want to see substance over form; conservatives are sick of meaningless gestures.
An important first step. Even though we know it will not pass the Senate, or, if it does, survive a veto, we have to be on the record NOW. While this is going on, unleash Plan B: gut the funding for any aspect of this monster that we can.
Barney Frank could read this one while sitting on the can, if he can multi-task.
Excellent idea!!
The GOP should have released their own health insurance plan (again) at the same time, so that people could see that once repeal goes through (fingers crossed, but, doubtful), they would have legislation to replace it with.
Anyhow, you know that it will not pass Obama’s desk, so, the GOP should bring it up for a vote the day after it fails in either the Senate or Barry’s veto pen, and keep doing it. And keep doing it.
Absolutely right. There should be a good, comprehensive health-care plan, in plain language, on just a few pages, without all the rules, regulations and expense. I know they have the ideas…but where is the hard copy? What are they waiting for? I think we need to write or call and suggest that. Sadly, if they haven’t figured that one out already, we are truly in trouble.
I will know if the republicans are serious or pretenders when they vote to NOT raise the spending debt ceiling. Until they do that, which will FORCE actual spending cuts, and bring everyone’s sacred cow to the slaughter house, they can talk about $100 B cuts to discretionary spending and repealing Obamacare until their lungs wear out, it don’t mean a thing. The only way they will convince me that they are serious about a workable budget, is to stop deficit spending. Maxing out your credit card, and then applying for a new credit card with a higher limit doesn’t fix the problem. STOP SPENDING IS THE ONLY FIX FOR THE PROBLEM. And a REAL ceiling on our debt of 14 trillion dollars seems like a great place to start. We are spending $1.4 trillion more than we are taking in, so $100 b is what 7% of our overbudget! Wow, so I am increasing my borrowing by just 93% of what I was doing last year, now that’s real improvement. Doing that each year is exactly like paying the minimum on your credit card, and hoping to get out of financial problems EVAH! Impossible.
slightly O/T…On the Sunday talkers we heard over and over that there would have to be a quick lesson in economics for the new members of the house. This was all predicated on the absolute must do inevitability of raising the debt ceiling come March.
Can somebody school us great unwashed masses on the need to keep doing what we’ve been doing in this regard?
ok…per cheapseat, not O/T afterall…great minds, etc.
You know what they’re “doing.” They are saving up their so-called “ideas” to use in the next election campaign.
This is what politicians do. They get elected by moaning about the “mess in Washington,” get into office and wallow in the powers, perks and profits, and run again against the “mess in Washington.”
The whole premise of this “repeal” stunt is overtly political, as evidenced by the addition of the “job-killing” line. The Repub royalty don’t want the repeal to happen any more than Osama Obama does. It gives them something to whinge about.
My GAWD is 2012 ever going to be a vicious election year.
The “Socialist Ruling-Class We-Know-Best Oppressors” versus “Those Remaining Who Actually Comprehend The Constitution”.
And the Idiot Media, of course, desperately doing all it can to save their Anointed Professor-In-Chief.
So help me God if those Repubic primary voters don’t nominate wisely for a change, the nation might really be headed for a serious and intractible degradation to second-tier status.
The House should also pass a bill automatically giving anyone a waiver from BO-NO-CARE – in effect killing it off without repealing it. They need to expose the waiver for cash BO program and why waivers have become necessary -i.e. they raise health care costs. Also the phrase, “The American people were lied to about BO-NO-CARE,” should be repeated endlessly followed by quoting World Alzheimer Queen Pelosi’s comment, “We have to pass the bill in order to know what’s in it.”
All of you will love this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576060280824641142.html
Our new Speaker wants to show what a nice guy he is and share power with the Democrats, shades of Trent Lott. If the Democrats won’t play nice, he’ll cry.
Conservatives are being played by the GOP. They are all on the same team, R or D jersey, it’s We The People vs. the Government Ruling Class.
GOP-RIP
If some companies get waivers, why can’t all of them get waivers? What is the criteria for getting a waiver? Curious minds want to know.
Oh, and I think we are being too hard on our newly elected tea partiers so far. They haven’t even been sworn in yet! Can we please give them a chance? I am just as skeptical as the next person, but can’t we cut them a little slack, at least until they get their feet wet?? They have good intentions and we just have to see if they cave. I think that some will, but most won’t!! They know what the stakes are.
The GOP leadership do so envy the Dems and yearn to be loved by them….they host such terrific DC parties and dinners not to be missed.
GOP leadership – DEMONCRAT Lite and lapdogs of the progressives
Why are we badmouthing our people in Congress??? Why is no one giving them even a chance?? I am sorry, but this is just plain mean. They haven’t even all been sworn in yet. Can we please reserve our judgement until they have had a chance to DO SOMETHING???
On January 4th, 2011 at 11:33 am, happyscrapper said:
Mind you, I wrote GOP LEADERSHIP, not our newcomers who want to change CONgress.
When our Speaker openly offers to “share power” with the Dems, it does not bode well as the Dems do not do any sharing.
I guess that is a bit scary, because our newly elected people need to follow their leader. But Boehner might be saying what the regressives want to hear. I still say, let’s give them a little bit of time. Not much, but a little.
And, unfortunately, the House IS sharing power with the Senate, whether we want to or not.
Hear here. Look at the comments above you – people are mad because the GOP doesn’t have a health care plan of their own to roll out? Explain to me how this is conservative.
I don’t want the Federal Government to have a health care plan. They already pay about half of the nation’s medical expenses. We need to get them out of the system, not just make some fatally conceited assumption that the GOP plan will be better because we’re not Democrats.
The Republicans just worked with the government to seize control of the nation’s food supply, from home gardens on up. Explain to me how this is conservative.
And yet in 2012 when some of us refuse to vote for Mitt “I like mandates” Romney, we’ll be called traitors for staying true to our small government commitment.
I can tell you for certain, I will never vote for Romneycare.
Seriously? How many chances do they freaking need??? This isn’t Boehner’s first term. The man was practically in tears when he was pleading with his fellow Republicans to pass TARP a couple of years ago. And a few years before that, he passed out checks from big tobacco on the floor of the House, literally to buy votes. Here’s the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAC2xeT2yOg . And it isn’t a disputed circumstance – he admitted it when he was caught.
The man is a snake. We need better.
Rogue Cheddar said:
Hah. This is a big frickin’ deal. If this thing passes, women will be a pre-existing condition again. Fingers crossed.
happyscrapper said:
I need to wash my brain now, thank you.
It’s a good start…
It’s not a total repeal of the law. Reading the thing, it only repeals Section I and subsection B of Section 2. I’m not entirely sure of what all is located where in that bloated monstrosity that Pelosi & co. foisted on us, but there’s an awful lot of bad in that bill that wasn’t in those sections…
Good post. They need to repeal it so that the government isn’t responsible for future spending. That won’t be the debate. Here’s the debate that dems will wage:
Any repeal to the health care act will increase the deficit because the CBO said (after 3 months of manipulating numbers to get a desired result) that the health care act will reduce the deficit.
So they will make changes in the health care act as ‘increasing the deficit’.
It’s a ridiculous argument, but it’s what they are going with.
Pelosi showed her hand about pre-existing for kids under 18 (aparently not knowing that because of the law, no plans for kids under 18 are available at all), increase in prescription drugs for Medicare, kids staying on the plan until they are 26.
The problem with this debate is that the arguments are made by people who have no idea what they are talking about. The problem is government spending at the federal level. This bill ensures the government spends more money and so will need more money. . .
the amount spent and the amount needed TBD. . .
but the costs in 10 years aren’t Pelosi’s problem. this is her moment in the sun. Her most powerful accomplishment. She won’t care who pays for it or doesn’t in 10 years.
Actually I’m kinda glad they didn’t. Their legislation isn’t much better. It still includes prohibitions on “discriminating” against pre-existing conditions, which will just put us right back on the path to a government-run system, albeit a few steps in the rear of Obamacare.
If you make that the law, people will wait till they get sick before they buy insurance, insurance will then become prohibitively expensive, and so the government will have to prop the industry up, either through individual or employer mandates, or through direct subsidies.
I agree. The Repeal of Obamacare should be a line or two on the new plan.
The plan should include provisions to put Healthcare Insurance into the free market so that it’s truly portable – remove it from being ‘employer’ provide. People shouldn’t feel they are chained to a job because of health insurance.
The plan should also include Tort reform. Put an end to the trial lawyer gravy train.
Totally agree, I would have felt more willing to give them a chance if they had elected someone like Michelle Bachman to the leadership position. It would have sent a strong message that they really were serious.
It’s waiver thin!
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Sean Hannity had the incoming House freshmen (which include a few women) on his show. They look like the real deal to me–a serious dedicated group. This is going to work out well.
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I don’t think they will roll over–they look ready to play hardball–and to trash and burn Comrade Obama’s plans. Some business people, a couple of ex military persons, a few Black persons, some older people, some young people. They looked like the people I saw at the local Tea Party events in El Paso and Las Cruces.
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John Bibb
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