Posted on 09/15/2012 6:00:58 PM PDT by lowbridge
As most of you are probably aware, on Thursday the House of Representatives voted to send a six-month Continuing Resolution (CR) to the Senate. Unfortunately, the CR – which passed by a margin of 329-91 – included full funding for the Affordable Care Act.
This is outrageous. Only 91 Members of the House of Representatives stood with the majority of Americans who are against the President’s health care law. As Tea Party Patriots noted in an e-mail on Thursday evening, this is understandable from a Washington point of view – elections are right around the corner, after all, and doing the right thing can always be pushed to tomorrow on Capitol Hill.
(Excerpt) Read more at teapartypatriots.org ...
I missed this story. Thanks for posting
As I’ve said all along, we can’t trust the Republican Party to do the right thing in this matter or any other. No matter who becomes President, no matter which party has the congressional majority, we are stuck with this monstrosity. It’s all about power. Now that the government has power over life and death, it won’t let go.
Sickening. My rep at least voted NO, but it just goes to show how many RINOs remain in Congress who refuse to fight fascism!
thought Republicans had the house..are we throwing the election or are they all out to destroy us.
Roll call? We have a chance to clean house in November...give us the names.
Coupla things:
1) The only races that really matter this year are the Congressional races. Vote out RINOs!
2) I’ve been saying for years, when nationalized healthcare comes, it will be REPUBS who are to blame. Hate to say I told ya so, but....
Looks like Paul “Repeal Obamacare, all of it” Ryan also voted for this.
This is just a punt...or more like changing sides at the end of a quarter of football. Yard markers are changed but nothing is lost or gained. They agree to wait until March for the drop-dead date, but all the same shit is still in there, including the still-problematic sequestration. Nothing has been lost (or gained) by either side.
CR’s are Cans Re-kicked. They COULD possibly use this time to make changes, but the CR vote itself changed nothing.
6 replies? Good grief; I want to know how many R’s knew about this and didn’t say anything.
Boehner is useless.
6 replies? Good grief; I want to know how many R’s knew about this and didn’t say anything.
Boehner is useless.
“As I’ve said all along, we can’t trust the Republican Party to do the right thing in this matter or any other.”
Even though I agree on what you say, the vote in the house would have been purely symbolic...the senate would have just continued to be a “do-nothing” body through the elections.
The SCOTUS gave it a nod and to the GOP ledership ObamaCare has become “settled law”
The question is why?
Why would Paul and West vote Yes?
Because it's law?
You want seniors to vote for Romney if they don't get their health money?
We can change it later but Obamacare is now law like it or not.
Scratch “vote for Romney” insert “vote for Obama”.
Here’s the roll call vote:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll579.xml
I see Ryan voted to fund Obamacare.
“Thursday the House of Representatives voted to send a six-month Continuing Resolution (CR) to the Senate. Unfortunately, the CR – which passed by a margin of 329-91 – included full funding for the Affordable Care Act.”
Because this Cr in lieu of budget has all kinds of things in it I would guess besides the funding of Obama Care. I bet it had Military spending in it and maybe SS. Would have to read what it says to know exactly what it is.
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