Actual name of R's bill: “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...epublican-plan-to-repeal-health-care-law.html

The U.S. House’s new Republican majority began its drive to repeal President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul law, an effort Democrats derided as a politically motivated diversion from more pressing matters.
The Republicans, who campaigned on a promise to repeal the health-care law enacted last year when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, scheduled a Jan. 12 vote on their two-page measure. It is entitled the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”

The measure has little likelihood of success because Democrats, who retained control of the Senate in November’s elections, have vowed to block it. The Obama administration, citing a Congressional Budget Office estimate that the repeal would add $230 billion to the deficit over a decade, said the president would veto the legislation should it reach his desk.
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I suppose it's better than what I suspect the original name was; the "Nya nya, Obama is a jerk" act.
 
that's the new empty, meaningless phrase you attach to anything you hate. good job, republicans, good luck getting elected in 2012 when health care isn't repealed and you have done jack squat to "reduce the deficit/spending" like you promised
 
they+took+our+jobsp
 
You can't blame them really, they had to give it a name that most of their supporters can understand.
 
I'm not a fan of the way bills are named anymore. The Bush administration had a bunch of distastfully named bills that did the opposite of what they claimed (Clean Water Act, No Child Left Behind, PATRIOT Act, to name a few), but at least those weren't overt "fuck yous" to the nation.

Alan Grayson, who I admire for being a tough-as-nails and blunt spoken Democrat (to his own political demise, to be sure), didn't shy away from such crass naming: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5353/show
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Alan Grayson, who I admire for being a tough-as-nails and blunt spoken Democrat (to his own political demise, to be sure), didn't shy away from such crass naming: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5353/show[/QUOTE]

I like the bill, but instead of using the savings for tax cuts, why not use it to pay down some of the debt we owe?
 
Was Uncle Bob ever so ad-hominemy with Myke as he is with him? Camoor's already on my ignore for that.

I was all for the repeal because the bill was trash anyway in what actually did pass but now it's adding more debt when they said it would decrease it? Pass
 
Well Republicans argue the CBO numbers are fixed because the CBO didn't analyze the cost of the 'doctors fix' to Medicare, and if they took that into account it wouldn't have reduced the deficit.

I was under the impression the 'doctors fix' was going to happen no matter what, regardless of the passage of the ACA. Including it into the CBO score wouldn't really be useful if it was going to be introduced and voted on anyway. So maybe analyzing just the ACA, as the CBO did, makes sense.
 
Congress is turning into a fucking day care center. Seriously, for a group of people so old they sure know how to bring things down to toddler level.
 
We need to troll congress, seriously. We need to get a troll candidate elected for the sole reason of snickering every time we watch C-Span. We need someone who will wear a garish American flag suit to work, and pick fights over things like the meaning of "it".
 
[quote name='Clak']We need to troll congress, seriously. We need to get a troll candidate elected for the sole reason of snickering every time we watch C-Span. We need someone who will wear a garish American flag suit to work, and pick fights over things like the meaning of "it".[/QUOTE]

Stephen Colbert?
 
I like how CAG has more strict rules for thread titles and tags than Congress does for bills.

It would be like finding out Cheetos fight cholesterol better than running.
 
[quote name='xxDOYLExx']This is an actual campaign sign here in Utah during the last congressional elections.

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God, I would hope the people that would be politically informed enough to understand such a silly sign would be smart enough not to fall for it.
 
So Arizona is no longer paying for transplants for people on medicare/medicaid and people are dying.

But yeah Socialism kills. Twits.
 
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