Boehner Wants Obamacare On The Chopping Block In Debt Negotiations
Source: TPM
SAHIL KAPUR 10:27 AM EST, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2012
In a new op-ed for the Cincinnati Enquirer, House Speaker John Boehner argues that the Affordable Care Act should be on the table for cuts in a deficit reduction deal.
He writes:
The president’s health care law adds a massive, expensive, unworkable government program at a time when our national debt already exceeds the size of our country’s entire economy. We can’t afford it, and we can’t afford to leave it intact. That’s why I’ve been clear that the law has to stay on the table as both parties discuss ways to solve our nation’s massive debt challenge.
The Ohio Republican also promises to use his House majority to go after Obamacare through the oversight process, mentioning recent efforts by the Ways and Means Committee to probe whether the administration is using taxpayer funds inappropriately when it comes to the health care law.
Over the past couple of years, I have noted there are essentially three major routes to repeal of the president’s law: the courts, the presidential election process and the congressional oversight process. With two of those three routes having come up short, the third and final one becomes more important than ever.
Vigorous oversight of the health care law by the House can be expected and, in fact, is already under way.
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Link to Boehner's Op-Ed:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121121/EDIT02/311210016/House-GOP-angling-repeal-health-care?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp&nclick_check=1
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I guess I have a unique sense of humor, or maybe I need a sarcasm tag. I do think the lack of facial expressions makes my humor hard to understand sometimes. I apologize to anyone I offended.
I said TROLL BAITER, which is how you kinda referred to yourself. I knew you were kidding, and I am kidding too! 
....A vibrating double-headed dildo, a 55 gallon drum of bourbon, and three thousand gallons of spay-on tan; then tell him to go fuck himself. 
God I am so sick of listening to that blubbering sack of shit whine (wine?) like a '74 Ford Pinto. 
I leave it to you fellow DUers to guess what FTS means.
id love to see congress salaries on the chopping block even though it wont happen. 
The law has passed, the Supreme Court agreed with it, and the president won the election.
What gives them any right to be so obstructionist and harmful? ARGH
Fuck Boehner and the orange horse he rode in on. These guys have a lot of nerve! 
black man out of the WH if it's the last thing he does! F-ing mo
