Posted on 09/17/2013 3:58:00 PM PDT by jazusamo
Just when you think Washington politics couldn't get dirtier, Congress finds a new low. To hold onto their illegal Obamacare subsidy that no other American earning $174,000 could get, members of Congress are trying to silence the subsidy's chief critic, Sen. David Vitters, by dredging up a 2007 unproven accusation that Vitters patronized a prostitute before being elected to the Senate.
Shockingly, the cabal also proposes that any member of Congress who votes for Vitter's proposal would be ineligible for the subsidy if Vitter fails and the subsidy stays. Has anyone in Congress read the Constitution? You can't make a lawmaker's future remuneration dependent on how he votes.
At the center of this tawdry cabal are none other than the chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee, Barbara Boxer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. Nevada).
Here are the facts behind the stench:
The Affordable Care Act Sect. 1312(d) requires that members of Congress and their staffs enroll in the health plans offered on the exchanges. The thinking behind that provision is that what's good enough for the public ought to be good enough for Congress. It sounded good in 2010, when the law was enacted, but now politicians are getting cold feet.
Until now, members of Congress received a 75 percent subsidy funded by taxpayers to enroll in the Federal Health Benefits Program. Signing up for Obamacare will cost them thousands of dollars because the law does not entitle anyone earning $174,000 (base salary for Congress) to get a subsidy. Yikes! Congress doesn't think the Affordable Care Act is affordable for them.
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I found that hard to believe but found the below excerpt in a Politico article.
Meanwhile Senate Democrats have been scheming to embarrass Vitter with an amendment that would revive his prostitution scandal or even turn off the subsidies to lawmakers who vote for his amendment.
David Vitter’s Obamacare feud deepens
Pathetic if true!
You would think Harry Reid would want to stay far away from anything to do with prostitutes
I can think of a few uses for such a principle, if it were constitutional.
Great point, at least in D.C.
Then Sen Vitter should start investigating Reid’s land deals and examine how he accumalated his wealth.
These leftists play hardball & Vitter ought to roll on them like a 2 ton boulder.
Also Vitter should start investigation into Menendez and Dianne Feinstein & her husbands dealings in China.
Yep, Reid, DiFi and Menendez should be the last ones to sling mud at Vitter over the sex scandal.
It sounds like some Republicans want a piece of Vitter on this subsidy thing also, looks as if the GOP-e want their free ticket too.
When the Chicago mob arrived in DC in Jan 09, we quickly realized NOTHING was too scummy for them.
Well said, and they’re most proficient in the Chicago way.
There is only one way to get these people’s attention. Vitter needs to knock the crap out of Reid.
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