The Congressional Research Service estimates the repeals have cost over $50 million. So much for stopping spending.
This has been the 33rd vote to repeal all or part of the ACA.
Congress, you are wasting our time and our money. You need to fund the government and you need to make sure the tax rate doesn’t expire on the middle class. You have done nothing about the jobs you promised us before the 2010 midterm elections.
Stand and deliver. You have 42 more days to get it all done this year. That isn’t much time.
but they will be talking about how they had to work through the night to fix the fiscal cliff – and then we wonder why they create such lousy legislation.
Congress has been failing us for years, yet we send the same jokers back. And, they are not really worried about the spending or waste of funds – if they were, they could find it very easily. I think of it like the auto CEO’s who came for the bailout in their private corporate planes – no money for the business, but plenty of money for things the CEO wants to do.
There are also a lot of anti abortion bills of various sorts too….meanwhile…where are those jobs promised by the brightest and best minds of the 2010 take over in congress. What a bunch of losers!
They and Grover Norquest sure fooled all the chumps who put them in office.
I particularly like what they did with taking the country to the point of default. Nice work, fools!
ker ching ker ching. The accomplished nothing but making a bunch of small investors (as in their retirement accounts and life savings) lose about 1/3 of the value of their portfolio.
Alexander Pope was right. A little learning is a dangerous thing….
This isn’t a failure — most people want Obamacare repealed. They should keep trying until they are successful.
Absolutely RIGHT! The Senate refuses to have votes or write a budget. The Senate refuses to take up Obama’s budgets. The Senate leader refused to hold a vote on Obama’s tax plans. The Senate refuses to vote on any House jobs bills. And now, the Senate will table this one, thus, again, businesses will resist hiring due to ACR regulations.
Yep. I completely agree with you, Moon. The Senate needs to stop being a do-nothing Senate and start working.
As for the jobs….the unemployment rate has been shrinking. In Republican led states. And if you believe Obama, the rates been shrinking….the DNC is happy with the way things are going and Obama says we headed in the right direction.
I say let them both do nothing. The House and the Senate. The less laws they pass the less they screw with the common man.
Less government isn’t a bad thing.
@marinm
Well….if they were busy REPEALING laws…….
@Cargosquid
+1
But how many times does Congress do something positive for the citizens of this great nation — like repealing a bad law?
117 days until business people can begin to reinvest and plan for expansions & jobs. 117 days until all kinds of people can stop trying to protect their asses from more losses. 117 days until we can begin to protect our children from financial ruin and debt. 117 days until we can repaitrate the Senate as a part of America and not Europe once again. 117 days until the right to work is reestablished and encouraged again. 117 days until the primary employer in the US is the private sector and not the government, and 117 days until those living in states with Democrate governors can once again feel the freedom and the economic rise of those living in states with Republican governors.
I wanted to “repeal” the Iraq war, now THAT was a collosal waste of misery, both for the soldiers(primarily) and our coffers as US citizens.
Many of us did, too. Now if Obama wanted to really strike a blow, he’d yank all our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan completely. But he can’t even do that right.
I don’t disagree. Congress can end the wars anytime they want. As I’ve said before for years it was Pelosi’s War. Now its Boehner’s.
I would much rather take all the money we’re spending on the war and return it back to the taxpayers and pay off debt — all while decreasing the size of govt.
@kelly_3406
NO! Most people do not want “Obama Care” repealed. The people who say “Obama Care ” want Obama care repealed.
According to most polls, many people are more satisfied than they were even 6 months ago as they come to understand ACA better. The medicare people like it. (dough nut hole now at 50% and will eventually close) People who want to keep their adult kids insured are happy. People with preexisting conditions are happy. etc…..
It is because of inaccurate information that people feared it. Now they are finding out its a winner, the poll worm is changing.
@Cargosquid
This column is about Congress wasting time. I don’t see the word “Senate” anywhere in there. Perhaps if Congress stopped spinning wheels and got serious about their promises to the public before the midterm elections, the Senate would consider their bills.
@Moon-howler
I think you meant to say the House is wasting time as Congress refers to both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Making what Cargo said correct.
CONGRESS has two chambers, the House and the Senate. Perhaps the Senate needs to do its job. IT hasn’t completed a budget, as demanded by federal law, since Obama was elected. It refuses to consider ANY bills for votes that might put Democrats on the same side as the Republicans. Reid cannot let Democrats vote on bills that might make the narrative look bad. Its the Senate that is not doing its job. The HOUSE has passed any number of bills.
The HOUSE passed a lot of bills concerning their 2010 promises. All tabled in the Senate.
Its a do-nothing Senate.
My brother doesn’t want Obamacare repealed. He’s been working as a self-employed carpenter for 35 years and has never been able to afford health insurance for himself and his son. But he pays taxes to pay for Congressman Cantor’s health insurance.
In fact, it would be nice if the program were implemented earlier. His wife’s job was re-defined out of health insurance last year after working for the same employer for 17 years. She just found out on Friday that she has stage III cancer and will be racking up hundreds of thousands of medical bills before she could possibly qualify for SS Disability and subsequently Medicare.
The current crop of conservatives completely lack the ability or inclination to say “there, but for the Grace of God, go I.”
I hope your sister in law gets the treatment she needs. Can medicaid help?
Yet another reason why we need Affordable Health Care.
I guess it is a sign of the times…not such a good one either.
When I was a younger person, the mark of made on the cheap was MADE IN JAPAN.
Would that people returned to similar snobbery with MADE IN CHINA.
Moon
I don’t think she’ll qualify for Medicaid because both she and my brother work. If she’s qualified for SS Disability, then she’ll qualify for Medicare. But the qualification process for SS Disability takes forever and in the meantime she’s had surgery and needs to start chemo soon, so they’re racking up medical bills.