Obama Just Slapped Down a GOP Attack on Obamacare and Planned Parenthood

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Thank you President Obama


Buddy Dek ?@buddy_dek 4m4 minutes ago

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Obama Just Slapped Down a GOP Attack on Obamacare and Planned Parenthood As promised.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/obama-slaps-down-gop-attack-obamacare-and-planned-parenthood

—By Delphine d'Amora
Fri Jan. 8, 2016 1:45 PM EST


President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a GOP-backed bill that would have fulfilled two conservative dreams all at once: to gut the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature health care law, and to pull funding from Planned Parenthood for a year.

The House passed the bill on Wednesday, after it squeaked through the Senate in December thanks to a special budget process requiring only 51 votes for passage instead of the usual 60. It was the 62nd time that Congress had voted on repealing or gutting the law colloquially known as Obamacare since it became law in 2010. It is also the eighth time in a year that Congress has voted on defunding Planned Parenthood.

Obama said in a statement: "The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 22 million after 2017…Reliable health care coverage would no longer be a right for everyone: it would return to being a privilege for a few."

Referring to Planned Parenthood, the president noted the bill "would limit access to health care for men, women, and families across the nation, and would disproportionately impact low-income individuals."........................

[Thinkingabout]

1. It is interesting the GOP continues to repeal the GOP plan.

Might mean their plan is bad, now we need to see what their next plan is going to be.

[saltpoint]

2. The GOP wants Obamacare gone. They've

wanted Planned Parenthood gone for even longer.

The Affordable Care Act as policy and Planned Parenthood as an organization have in common the impulse, will, and in degrees, resources to:


assist people who need help.


That the GOP is so reflexively and maniacally opposed to both entities significantly defines the nature of their betrayal of charter: You can't represent a nation's populace by reflexive opposition to the things that strengthen that populace. You can't sustain viability if you make over strategies to subdivide the various demographic groups that comprise the populace.

[Scuba]

3. Was there a big press conference with people helped by ACA and PP invited?

I didn't hear anything about it if there was. If there wasn't, why not?