George Rebane
This forum has highlighted Obamacare’s atrocities, visited and pending, since before it became law of the land. Today there are serious rumblings of attempting to defund/delay Obamacare as part of the next continuing resolution Congress will take up on extending national debt. The Republicans have been the leading rumblers who have received on a silver platter a way to oppose Obamacare that will attract bipartisan support. But for reasons beyond my ken, they are not stepping up to the plate, and are instead hiding in the weeds with the other political sleazebags who dare not oppose the White House.
The issue is the latest in the stream of exemptions that have become a hallmark of that putrid piece of legislation. You’ll recall that Congress beseeched Obama to spare them and their staffs having to buy their healthcare policies through the dreaded insurance exchanges as the law specifically prescribes. Such plaintive begging itself is outrageous since the Executive is supposed to enforce the laws as passed by Congress, and not modify them in their execution. If Congress wants an exemption, it can pass a law to accomplish that.
So the benevolent Obama showed mercy on his congressional lackeys, and had his Office of Personnel Management announce 1) Congress and staff would continue getting their now illegal subsidies, and 2) the members of Congress could define which of their staff will actually be covered by the law – both of these being illegal ‘remedies’. All polls show that no one favors Congress getting such special bennies when the rest of us have to pony up to the added costs of this new “affordable care” (more here).
The Republicans should have joined their voices in a loud chorus to denounce this as yet another constitutional end-run by our by now demonstrably rogue president. This could have served as the basis for starting to unravel Obamacare by broadening the exemptions until the law is finally diluted into vapor. Instead, here I sit with millions of other like-minded Americans, astounded that the oh so principled Republicans have chosen to let crickets lead their assault on Obamacare.
I don’t know how our Tom McClintock, Doug Lamalfa, and Dan Logue feel about this. But my recommendation is for them to loudly reject the White House handout, and then proceed from there.
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