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Wonkbook: The GOP’s Obamacare chutzpah
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/24/wonkbook-the-gops-obamacare-chutzpah/"The classic definition of chutzpah is the child who kills his parents and then asks for leniency because he's an orphan. But in recent weeks, we've begun to see the Washington definition: A party that does everything possible to sabotage a law and then professes fury when the law's launch is rocky.
On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan became the latest Republicans to call for HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to step down because of the Affordable Care Act's troubled launch. "I do believe people should be held accountable," he said.
Okay then.
How about House Republicans who refused to appropriate the money the Department of Health and Human Services said it needed to properly implement Obamacare?
How about Senate Republicans who tried to intimidate Sebelius out of using existing HHS funds to implement Obamacare? "Would you describe the authority under which you believe you have the ability to conduct such transfers?" Sen. Orrin Hatch demanded at one hearing. It's difficult to imagine the size of the disaster if Sebelius hadn't moved those funds.
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Wonkbook: The GOP’s Obamacare chutzpah (Original Post)
HuckleB
Oct 2013
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IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)1. Absolutely sickening. I don't know why GOP heads don't explode from the pressure of their lies.
area51
(11,920 posts)3. Actually, republinazi chutzpah
is their pretending that GingrichCare isn't wholly a republinazi idea, created by the Heritage Foundation and Newt Gingrich. Forced buying of private, for-profit, lightly regulated insurance without a public option. Buying insurance from insurance companies proven to deny paying for treatment, leaving people to become bankrupt or die.