Saturday - November 16, 2013

More to Teh Point

No sooner did I post that bit on Obama last night than my wife let me know how far behind the moment I was.

Yes, that was what was said yesterday. But in less than 24 hours ...

... the Republican majority House drew up a bill giving him that 1 year delay that seemed to be what he wanted. And then passed it. Fastest legislation ever!!

The House approved Republican legislation on Friday giving health insurers the option of extending plans through 2014 that would otherwise be canceled for not complying with Affordable Care Act standards.

The bill, approved 261-157, would also allow new customers to enroll in those plans. Thirty-nine Democrats crossed party lines and joined a nearly unanimous GOP caucus in voting for the measure proposed by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan.

So lookie there: the GOP cooperating with El Residente on his signature  fumble  opus, trying to give him what he wanted when push has come to shove and the American people are taking a hurting.

But no.

It has little to no chance of clearing the Democratic-controlled Senate, however.

Say what? Isn’t this what their Lord and Master wanted? Um, no. What HE wanted was the law to be ignored by his say so. HE didn’t want a little Time Out rider added on to it. HE wanted to fix to go in based only his holy word and the televised waving of his magic wand.

The Senate Democrats however, WANT THE MONEY. All this was explained last night to me while I was trying to get us up to bowling league on time, so I was a bit more focused on not hitting the deer and keeping the car on the road. So I’m not 100% here but ...  maybe they’re just being contrary as usual, and will only support a bill that they author?

Not that it matters. Obama has sworn to veto the 1 year extension bill brought forth by the House, even if Harry Reid would even call the bill and the DNC majority Senate passed it. So a fix to make O’s illegal fix a bit legal is dead in the water. And the Dems seem to have 2 quite similar fixes of their own in the works, one of which pretty much seems to obviate Obamacare entirely?

The White House has already threatened to veto the legislation, and there’s certainly no guarantee that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid would call it to the floor.

But Democrats are separately pursuing two additional pieces of legislation on the Senate side that—if they can convince Reid to consider them—could prove problematic for the president.

Both those bills go further than even the House bill.

One, from Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., would allow the old policies to be extended for another two years.

The other, from Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., would effectively allow an indefinite extension of those plans by grandfathering in all plans as late as Dec. 31, 2013.

Landrieu’s plan would make Obama’s promise REAL. “ If you like it you can keep it”, old policy, old amounts of coverage, old (one hopes) cost. And if the Dems hate that one too? Well, it just shows you their true intentions, doesn’t it?

For a similar look at Obama’s latest ukase (decree from the Tsar, aka a holy decree from Caesar) see Jeff Anderson’s column at the Weekly Standard

… Apparently, the federal lawmaking authority has now moved to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.  ...

... By “the old law,” the White House official clearly didn’t mean the law at the time of Obamacare’s passage, because pre-Obamacare law didn’t tell insurers that they would have “to no longer offer” 2013 plans in 2014.  Rather, that’s what Obamacare requires—or, more exactly, what “old” (written, congressionally passed) Obamacare requires.  New Obamacare—which wasn’t passed by Congress but was simply decreed from the White House—now temporarily revokes that mandate (albeit only as it pertains to those who were already enrolled in such plans).

... This latest development offers a stark reminder, however, that Obamacare isn’t only an historic assault on Americans’ liberty, but also on the very notion of government of, by, and for the people.

Well yeah. That’s what the VRWC blogosphere was screaming about years ago. So loud that finally even the GOP heard us. And you (on the Left) weren’t listening.  You still aren’t. You’re only concerned that the Great Plan isn’t working. You still can’t see the tyranny within it.

Posted by Drew458     on 11/16/2013 at 12:36 PM   
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