Thread: ISSA TO PROPOSE BILL TO FORCE OBAMA OFFICIALS INTO OBAMACARE EXCHANGES

ISSA TO PROPOSE BILL TO FORCE OBAMA OFFICIALS INTO OBAMACARE EXCHANGES



by BREITBART NEWS 30 Sep 2013, 11:59 AM PDT 565 POST A COMMENT

On Monday afternoon, after the Democratic Senate rejected a Republican House bill that would have continued to fund the government and would have delayed the implementation of Obamacare by one year, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that the House would attempt to pass a bill requiring all Obama administration officials to sign up for Obamacare. Currently, Obama administration officials are not subject to the health care exchanges that they insist Americans pay for federally. Congress members are forced to join the exchanges, but are federally subsidized to do so.

UPDATE: Harry Reid has already said that the Senate will brook no compromise over the House GOP demand, instead sending the same Senate bill with full funding back to the House.

Video at the Page Link:

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As Shutdown Looms, Capitol Hill Freaks Out

September 30, 2013 by Sam Rolley

As the government shutdown fiasco continued Monday, Capitol Hill Democrats and some Republicans embraced increasingly harsh language to describe the tactics used by GOP conservatives attempting to defund Obamacare in return for passage of a government funding bill.
Representative Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) called conservative members of his Party in the House “lemmings with suicide vests” for their efforts to throttle funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
They have to be more than just a lemming. Because jumping to your death is not enough,” he said.
“You have this group saying somehow if you’re not with them, you’re with Obamcare. If you’re not with their plan — exactly what they want to do, you’re with Obamcare. It’s getting a little old,” he said.
Senator Harry Reid (D-Calif.) told reporters Monday that the Senate would not allow a short-term, one-week continuing resolution to be passed in order to give lawmakers more time to come to an agreement because it would be akin to running the government like that of a banana republic.
“If we can’t pass this, we’re only truly entering a banana republican mindset,” Reid said at a press conference after the Senate tabled the House’s continuing resolution postponing the ACA for one year.
The Senate sent the House a “clean” continuing resolution without the language to postpone Obamacare. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated that he would not allow a vote on that bill.
“This is what we look at other countries doing,” Reid said. “The United States, we’re going to be funding the government for a week, ten days at a time — not so good.”
Reid also called GOP lawmakers “bullies” who should “get a life.”
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney used a number of rhetorical tactics to attack conservatives Monday— at one point, even accusing the lawmakers of extortion.
The press secretary also regurgitated Democratic assertions that anti-Obamacare Republicans are simply mean-spirited people who would like to see millions of Americans suffer.
“One might surmise that the extreme agita that you see among Republicans right now over the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare is a direct result of the fact that, beginning tomorrow, there is a concrete development that means that millions of Americans for the first time will be able to sign up for that health insurance,” Carney said.
And President Barack Obama added his two cents Monday evening, a mere seven hours before the possible shutdown would take effect accusing conservatives of being at the “height of irresponsibility.”
“One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn’t get to shut down the entire government just to refight an election,” Obama said.
“My hope and expectation is that in the 11th hour once again that Congress will choose to do the right thing,” the President concluded.
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Rand Paul Argues Democrats ‘Should Not Escape’ Pain Obamacare Will Cause Everyday Americans

September 30, 2013 by Ben Bullard

PHOTOS.COM

After Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivered his marathon talk last Tuesday to galvanize GOP opposition to Obamacare, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) published an opinion piece in The Washington Times, excoriating the hypocrisy of Congressional leaders who continue to support the Affordable Care Act while exempting themselves from its mandates.

What should infuriate you the most is the fact that the same elected officials who implemented this mandate have recently declared themselves exempt from it. That is to say, these officials are forcing you to partake in something that they themselves are refusing. If Obamacare is so great, why then are federal employees and elected officials getting special treatment and opting out?
If President Obama, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid and Chief Justice Roberts love Obamacare so much, they should live under it. Their actions speak louder than words, and it is erroneous for these leaders to even attempt to claim that Obamacare is a step forward for Americans.

Not a difficult concept to understand, is it?
One thread that runs through all of the conservative opposition to Obamacare has been the simplicity of the conservatives’ moral message. Despite the sophistication of Cruz’s Ivy League mind or of Paul’s Hippocratic training, conservative lawmakers have had no need to fall back on complexity, obfuscation or patronizing, “it’s-complicated” justification for why they have taken this particular stand on the healthcare law. Rather, their message is manifestly simple and just plain correct: It’s wrong for Congress to stand apart from the laws it has created.
Similarly, Democrats and RINO proponents of Obamacare have feebly argued in favor of the law from a smug high ground of intricate, systemic and complicated explanations. Their attempt at intellectual abstraction to defend the indefensible — such as when President Barack Obama last week urged America to wait patiently for the law to begin reverberating through society, or when Senator John McCain criticized Cruz and Co. for failing to appreciate his fatalistic “compromise” justification for siding with the Democrats — is both stupidly transparent and intellectually dishonest.
People often see through such condescension if they’re paying attention.
Here’s more unfiltered logic from Paul:

I find it absolutely despicable that Mr. Obama, his administration and the elected officials who shoved this mandate down the throat of Americans are now giving themselves waivers. The president is also giving his friends waivers. Mr. Obama’s behavior mirrors that of a captain jumping overboard, abandoning his own sinking ship.
I have a proposal. I have offered an amendment that would outlaw any special exemptions for government employees. This amendment requires all federal workers to purchase health insurance from the new Obamacare exchanges, instead of receiving taxpayer-funded subsidies.
I am also introducing a more broad constitutional amendment, which states that Congress shall make no law that treats citizens differently from the elites in the federal government.
… My legislation and constitutional amendment will remind all elected officials that they are not above the law, and they are certainly not above the American people.

Hopefully, by 2014, a great many elected officials will learn that same lesson at the polls.

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