Posted on 08/02/2013 10:39:04 AM PDT by NCjim
The House voted Friday to prevent the IRS from enforcing any aspect of ObamaCare, a bill meant to exact revenge against an agency that Republicans say is incapable of neutral enforcement of the law.
Members approved the Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act in a 232-185 vote. Four Democrats supported the bill along with every Republican. The vote capped off several days of work in the House on bills aimed at reining in government regulation and government overreach.
House Democrats cast the votes as merely for show, given opposition from the White House and the Senate majority. The Obama administration threatened to veto the IRS enforcement bill and said it would undermine the 2010 healthcare law that is aimed at expanding healthcare coverage.
Some of these healthcare votes have created awkward moments for Democrats. Earlier this month, 22 Democrats voted with Republicans to delay the individual insurance mandate, and 35 voted to delay the employer mandate.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
All Republicans and four Democrats voted for the bill to defund Obamacare. I decided to guess who the four Democrats were prior to looking, and narrowed it down to five candidates: Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Jim Matheson (UT-04), Collin Peterson (MN-07), John Barrow (GA-12) and Nick Rahall (WV-03). I then clicked on the article, and saw that the four Democrats were McIntyre, Matheson, Peterson and Barrow. How did I know that the four Democrats would come out of my list of five? Because the five I listed are the only Democrats in the House whose districts gave Romney over 51% of the vote. Funny how that works.
However, it is worth noting that 10 Republican House members represent districts that gave Obama over 51% in 2012 (David Vadalao and Gary Miller in CA, Mike Coffman in CO, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in FL, Tom Latham in IA, Frank LoBiondo and Jon Runyan in NJ, and Peter King, Michael Grimm and Chris Gibson in NY), and all 10 voted to defund Obamacare. That says a bit about how unpopular Obamacare is.
No. You really want to cut it you ZERO out the f*cking thing in the budget. But, Congress couldn’t be bothered to even pass the bills they are obligated in the first place.
C.R. as far as the eye can see, so the GOP can, once again, reach across the aisle....
bump
RINO Cornyn has an even better idea, he will ask, ASK, the IRS Chief to not enforce ObamaCare.
Yep. Hard hitting stuff, that.
Friday good news. Thanks, bro. Now I can party properly tonight here in LALA land. The GOP is a train wreck but sometimes they come through.
According to my source (Daily Kos spreadsheet) there is one more rat seat where Romney got over 51%, Patrick Murphy’s district gave Romney 51.7%.
a right-winger who takes a quantitative approach ... didn’t think that was allowed. Must be outside of New England, for in N.E.the right runs on emotion-only.
Oops, you’re right; that means that the five Democrats I listed were the only ones in districts in which Romney got over *52* percent. The lowest Romney vote percentage in those five CDs was the 53.9% he got in Peterson’s MN-07.
I also use the Daily Kos spreadsheet for presidential vote by CD; I think I picked it up here in FR, probably from you. Those Kos election guys may be moonbats, but they sure can crunch those precinct-level numbers.
Good
BTW, I guess that Patrick Murphy isn’t even going to try to con the GOP to let him join the party’s caucus.
Well they turned him down so he has to ingratiate himself with his current masters.
I don’t recall ever hearing about a party switcher being told no before, he must have wanted some kind of deal that they wouldn’t give him.
Progress, progressive, I crack me up.
5.56mm
If they (House GOP leadership) had any guts, they would attach it to any continuing resolution or debt ceiling increase.
Funny things is people can be penalized for not having insurance, but government cannot actually “collect” the penalty. Someone who knows more details of the law than I do mentioned this. I took it he knew what he was talking about (he’s been in insurance industry for 30 years).
Maybe FR experts of the AFA can comment. I might have misunderstand what he meant.
well....I meant to say experts of the ACA...(not AFA).
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