The Speaker's rostrum in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber.
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After debate on the House floor yesterday, the House of Representatives will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act today. The bill is expected to pass, but also expected to die in the Senate. That didn’t stop Congress from debating for over five hours. And when 438 435 people are all saying the same things, people start getting creative.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) made his remarks in under 30 seconds — and in rhyming couplets. "Maybe we can serve [the bill] with Green Eggs and Ham. Uncle Sam, I still don't think Americans will like this Obamacare sham. Uncle Sam, loyal to patient center choice I am," he said.
But is all the talk alienating independent voters? Would Republicans be better served talking about jobs? And how would this debate be different under a President Romney? Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich provides some perspective.
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The House needs to continue to repeal the Affordable Health Care fiasco. Our country needs to adjust it's health care system, but to have a new system that is nothing like what it was supposed to be, costing trillions of dollars that no one has and get rammed down our throats, is nothing short of bullying (I can be more descriptive). To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi "Sign it, then read it". If a politician came to you personally and said he had a fantastic plan that would help everyone, just sign this form, and it will become law, would you do it? Of course not.
Same with this ridiculous law. It needs to be thrown out, and a new health care system needs to be put into place. I don't know what the new system will be, I just know that Obamacare is NOT the answer.
Offshore accounts, government employee lay-offs, bonuses for investment bankers, restricting social freedoms, loosening of regulations on finance and environmental protections, granting more access for superpacs and lobbyists, less rights for women, no help for immigrant kids, no relief for the poor, reduction of any and all services that help the general welfare of the people. All this and a return to healthcare dysfunction is just what the Republicans and Libertarians need in their war against Humanity.
I'd like to say these "conservatives" will soon realize that they're part of the same ecosystem and suffer with everyone else. But to them it's just a revival of the world we see on Downton Abbey. (Sir Richard Carlisle would be so proud.)
Why must we sit through another tiresome debate by the duly elected representatives of the people? Boring!
Can't we just have the President issue another Executive Order decree and fiat because he knows what is best for all of us despite elections and polls?
Is this vote "political theater" or an honest vote on a finally accurate prospectus of the Obamacare TAX which will be denied a vote in the US Senate?
Is that obstruction considered "political theater" in the US Senate which has refused to pass a budget in over three years?
No votes and no budgets for political reasons from the Democrat controlled US Senate gets no sardonic giggling or derisive charges of "political theater" from the panel?
The reason the Republicans control the House in the first place was because of Obamacare and the reason they may control the US Senate and possibly the White House is because of the massive Obamacare TAX on the middle-class which we were specifically told the Democrats would never do.
With all due respect to the three branches of government and the fourth estate, the voters do not like being laughed at and fobbed off by elitists in the government and the public media since they are paying for all of it.
The phony demands for political compromise now turn to grim mockery of the moderate Gov. Romney who did compromise and provided his liberal state with an entitlement they wanted and he did it with fiscal responsibility and transparency unlike Obamacare.
Massachusetts is not the United States and most reasonable people understand that difference while the President confuses being a political machine boss with being President.
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