Health care isn’t out of the woods yet
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has pledged to dismantle the law if he defeats Obama. And stripping funding for its main parts would be relatively easy for a GOP Congress, even if the party had only a narrow majority in the Senate.
Even if Obama wins a second term, there is no guarantee the law will survive in its current form. Pressure is mounting in Washington to dramatically cut federal spending as budget deficits yawn. And the president and other supporters of the law may be hard-pressed to defend the $1.7-trillion price tag for expanding insurance coverage over the next decade. …
Republicans on Capitol Hill, who plan another symbolic vote in July to scrap the law, are promising to go after the law’s funding next year, a pledge that will be hard to walk away from. “The real outcome of … [the court's] decision is to strengthen our resolve to make sure that this law is in fact repealed,” House SpeakerJohn A. Boehner(R-Ohio) said.
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You make the liberals in both partys laugh while I make them wet their depends. It doesn’t get more relevant than that.
America always gets the lousy government it deserves. You prove that point enormously so don’t whine when you get what you continue to vote for, namely higher taxes and less representation.
DannoJyd on July 2, 2012 at 5:56 AM
Ok Danno…what would be your advice for someone who continually votes for but never gets….lower taxes and more representation.
I live in California so I have no say in the primary. Any third party or write in vote will be a vote for Obama. Many of my choices for state legislator will be rabid lefty, lefty, or lefty light.
What say you oh enlightened one?
Ditkaca on July 2, 2012 at 7:43 AM
I’ll give it a go…‘LARRY JOHNSON!!’
He can like..totally win and stuff….
*gag*
BigWyo on July 2, 2012 at 8:34 AM
thank you for that … you did better then I could …
however this guy is fast becoming a troll ….
so I am not going to feed the troll … maybe he will get
bored and go away …
conservative tarheel on July 2, 2012 at 8:48 AM
LOL!
I’ve been hearing a lot about this Johnson dude lately. Maybe we should vote for him. Maybe he’d solve everything.
/s
MisterElephant on July 2, 2012 at 8:49 AM
Yeah. They’re really worried about you I’m sure.
/
mankai on July 2, 2012 at 8:50 AM
2700 pages can sure be a big mess, and as The Secretary putters along adding whatever she damn-well-pleases without any checks and balances, consumers start to see things they don’t like.
Isn’t it passing strange that not one democrat will stand up and try to fix the things that are wrong with this bill?
The one size fits all does not fit over the current insurance schemes that many of the states have, it is going to cost people plenty to add all of Secretary Utopia’s good ideas. You would think in an election year they would try to feign some kind of concern.
I think it is only with the Supreme Court case that some people have heard for the first time that the Single Payer option is Medicaid, paid for by the state they live in.
Fleuries on July 2, 2012 at 9:02 AM
About as worried as I am about MadCon showing up at my door.
In other words, ROTFLOL.
MelonCollie on July 2, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Something that is NOT talked about but by a few people and wait till they hit. Grandma is going back to eating dog food. Remember?
Herb on July 2, 2012 at 9:44 AM
If I were a BHO supporter and worried about his chances maybe I’d fund some folks to troll con blogs to see if we could peel off some fools to vote 3rd party.
Yeah, that’s what I’d do.
Difficultas_Est_Imperium on July 2, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Thank you, I do have to say, I thought he was for real when I first answered.
I’m reaching the conclusion now, however, that he is either a Troll, or so devoide of common sense that there will be No reaching him.
Since reason and logic are futile in discussing reality with him I’ve decided that any future response I have to him will be in the third person because it is clear his mind is like concrete – All Mixed Up and Permenantly Set.
Like the way he thinks playing right into Liberal’s hands makes them nervous – No Foundation in Reality.
jaydee_007 on July 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Indeed! And while we’re at it, come next January, win or lose, both Boehner & Cantor need to be replaced.
AH_C on July 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM
He’s not a troll. He’s a conservative before he’s a republican. if you’ve read his comments over time, you’d know that. Basically, he’s come to the conclusion that between Mittness and Gary Johnson, Gary is the better of two choices. And guess what, he along with many a person that want nothing less to steer the country back to its constitutional principles, is a delegate to the GOP convention.
While many here bitch, moan and pontificate about the primary options, he was engaged at the precint level and now will travel to Tampa to either stop the fat lady from singing or if she does anyway, walk out and vote for Gary.
As for the myth that 3rd parties are useless, just look at the beginnings of the GOP and the Democrats. They too were once 3rd parties. I haven’t decided yet which way I’ll go, but as of yet, Mittness has yet to met my 80% concurrance threshold. But I’ll give him till the convention to bring his score up from 60% to 80. Otherwise, I will go for the better choice via conservative party, write-in (depending on general consensus) or Gary – all depending on perceived strength.
I would much rather wake up the next morning and see that Mittness won a three-way race of 45%-35%-20% and know that Mittness did not get a 65% mandate to dish bipartisan crap samwiches. On the flip side, if Oboobi won with that 45%, the coalition of the GOP and the conservative 3rd party still trumps his non-mandate by 10%. And of course with the GOP sweeping up most of the congressional races, Oboobi would be impotent, EOs notwithstanding.
AH_C on July 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM
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