Thursday, July 12, 2012

ObamaCare Repeal - The Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal ObamaCare on Wednesday.

From FOX News:

House lawmakers voted Wednesday to repeal the federal health care overhaul -- the latest in a long line of anti-ObamaCare votes, but the first since the Supreme Court upheld the law and defined one of its key provisions as a "tax."

The House has voted more than 30 times to scrap, defund or undercut the law since Obama signed it in March 2010. As with those bills, the repeal bill approved Wednesday on a 244-185 vote faces certain demise in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

But Republicans were looking to get lawmakers back on record on the law in the wake of the high court ruling last month. The ruling upheld most the law as constitutional, but in doing so it determined that the controversial penalty on those who do not buy insurance technically qualifies as a "tax" and not a "penalty" as the administration had claimed. That definition fueled GOP criticism of the law, and put some Democrats in a politically tricky position.

Five Democrats ended up defecting Wednesday. Reps. Mike Ross, D-Ark.; Dan Boren, D-Okla.; Mike McIntyre, D-N.C.; Larry Kissell, D-N.C.; and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, all voted yes.

In a show of party unity, all Republicans voted for the bill.

So the House has voted to repeal ObamaCare again.

Imagine the significance of that act if the Republicans controlled the Senate and Mitt Romney was our president.

Wisconsin's Senate race matters, a lot.

We have to elect a Republican.

Radical Leftist Tammy Baldwin would be a disaster. She'd be an Obama rubber stamp, bad for Wisconsin and bad for the country.

1 comment:

jimspice said...

RE-OPEN THE DONUT HOLE!!!