Health Care Repeal Bill Passes GOP-Controlled House, Has No Shot In Senate

[onehandle]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House has voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. But the election-year move stands no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

The vote Wednesday was 244-185. By the Republican count, it was the 33rd time in 18 months that the tea party-infused GOP majority has tried to scrap, defund or scale back the law since grabbing the majority.

The vote came two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that the law – Obama's signature domestic achievement – was constitutional.

Republicans criticized the law as a job-killing threat to the economic recovery. Democrats said repeal would eliminate consumer protections that already have improved the lives of millions.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/health-care-repeal-bill_n_1665710.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. More wasteful, stupid political theatre.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate Republican politicians?

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Do they realize they are demonstrating the definition of insanity?

oh yes - and where are those jobs? huh?

[canuckledragger]

5. gotta post it for clarity

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

[Andy823]

6. Oh yeah

Wasn't it Boehner who kept on saying he number one priority if republicans took over the House would be "JOBS"? He keeps on saying they are doing the "will of the people", yet the majority of people are tired of all the BS over trying to repeal the health care bill, and the vast majority of americans want something done about JOBS, not political theater!

I hope this backfires big time for the republicans, and I hope the people back home show them just how tired they are of the games they have been playing since president Obama was elected. Tired of the "number one priority" being to make president Obama a one term president no matter how much damage it has done to this country!

While they are catering the tea party morons in their base, and doing their best to privatize the whole damned country for their rich donors, they people are still suffering and are getting mad as hell with congress. Do they really think that anyone with half a brain is going to think they are doing the right things to help solve any of the problems the country faces?

[Drunken Irishman]

3. So glad this will create jobs...

Oh wait.

[judesedit]

4. Job-killing? NOT! Demand creates jobs. More insured. More demand for drs, nurses, orderlies, aides

supplys, suppliers, drivers, and on and on. Wake up, America. Aren't you sick of being bullshitted and brainwashed by these selfish egotistical racist puppets that call themselves Congresspeople? You know, the ones with the excellent healthcare policies WE pay for. Vote the creeps out of office and put some people in there who care about the MAJORITY of this country. Thank you very much.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. And "job-lock" breaking. One of the few CBO statistics the Rs

like to quote is that employment and labor force particiapation would be 800,000 lower in 10 years through ONE mechanism of the ACA. But the Rs always omit the reason why: 800,000 is the CBO-estimated number of people who would have wanted to retire but could not before the ACA made it possible to afford health insurance not tied to a job they hate.

[alp227]

7. I expect a "Do-nothing Congress" ad soon.

That ad would put together clips like Mitch McConnell saying about his fellow Senate CONS: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." And Darrell Issa saying about the subpoena power he'd have as chairman a few months before the 2010 congress elections: "I won't use it to have corporate America live in fear that we're going to subpoena everything. I will use it to get the very information that today the White House is either shredding or not producing." And Rush Limbaugh's comment in 2009 about wanting Obama to fail. And then in rapid-fire succession all 30 or so screencaps of C-SPAN showing the votes by the House to repeal ObamaCare. It's the vote count whenever you watch congressional proceedings on TV like

[Blanks]

13. I'd hold that ad until after the ACA rebates. eom

[Posteritatis]

8. "33rd time in 18 months" That's just extra-special levels of pathetic right there. (nt)

[judesedit]

9. A bunch of immature robot bimbos wasting our time and our money as usual

VOTE THESE IMBECILES OUT OF OFFICE ASAP!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. The "good news": Democratic Party unity--only 5 defected

and voted with the Republicans:

We'll have to see whether all but these 5 defectors run campaigns that support the ACA, not just fail to vote to repeal it.

From http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/house/2/460 :

No Votes (185 Democrats)

Yes Votes (244, including 5 Democrats)
-------------------------------------------------
Dan Boren .... D OK-2
Larry Kissell ... D NC-8
Jim Matheson .D UT-2
Mike McIntyre . D NC-7
Mike Ross ..... D AR-4

Did Not Vote
----------------
John A. Boehner R OH-8
Jo Bonner R AL-1
Jesse L. Jackson Jr.D IL-2

[Woody Woodpecker]

17. Boren, Kissell, Matheson, McIntyre, and Ross

will now face defeat.

Why get a Republican Lite when you can get the real thing?

Two years, their Republican counterparts will be defeated and replaced with true progressives/Democrats.

[elbloggoZY27]

12. GOP Another NO

This GOP Agenda is so ridiculous that it defies logic of any kind. Here is a group that has health care but could care less about those who do not. They killed Catastrophic Health Care in the 1980's so this is just a repeat of the same old junk.

To this Vietnam Veteran what should be repealed is the GOP.

Just another dumb vote from a do nothing group of politicians. I give the GOP Rating of F- on this.

[Skittles]

14. WELCOME TO DU, elbloggoZY27!

for sure you know the score

[mrmpa]

15. Who were the 5 pissant Democrats............

who voted to repeal it?

[Woody Woodpecker]

16. So the GOP continues to fail to do what it promised their constitutent to do..

CREATE JOBS!

[Spike89]

18. Almost always a few "dissident" voters

It isn't always obvious why they voted as they did. This is especially true when the vote is essentially meaningless, i.e., no chance of passing the senate. I don't know the 5, don't know their rationale, but would be willing to hear what they say. Could be they want it repealed so we might have a chance at a single-payer system? Maybe in their district the ACA is extremely unpopular and they can get "cover" through a harmless vote so they will be in the seat when they truly are needed?
Even if they are "republican lite" the question is, are they in a district where any one more progressive stands a chance. I'd rather have a wishy-washy Democrat than a rabid tea-party jerk. The wishy-washy guy may not help much, but isn't going to be as damaging in most cases.

[joanbarnes]

19. Repukes continue to commit treason, refuse to do the job they were elected to do.

[harun]

20. Losers

[lovuian]

21. I love how the Republicans are on self destruct

attacking Obamacare will be their destruction
they don't talk about denial of preexisting conditions

or children healthcare

Let them self destruct