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    Obama says he’ll veto bill that mandates Obamacare for himself, Congress

    Obama says he’ll veto bill that mandates Obamacare for himself, Congress

    October 16, 2013 by Michael Dorstewitz 198 Comments



    President Barack Obama is reportedly telling congressional officials he will veto any debt-ceiling bill from Congress that includes the so-called Vitter amendment, which would make the Affordable Care Act applicable to senior executive branch officials, including the president and vice president.

    The amendment, offered by U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and supported by House Republican leaders, would also apply to Congress, according to Politico.

    You might call the Vitter amendment the “eat the food you cooked, sleep in the bed you made” proposal.

    “This is really about fairness, making sure that Washington is forced to live under the same train wreck of Obamacare that is forced on the rest of America,” Vitter said in a statement on his website. “It will take the policy makers in Washington walking in the same shoes as the millions of Americans to actually make real policy changes, and clean up the train wreck.”

    Politico reported:
    Obama brought up the issue of the so-called Vitter language unprompted, according to one of the sources. The president and congressional Democrats also discussed how to set caps for discretionary spending for next year given the possibility that a short-term spending bill could fund the government for only a few months, and their shared perception of a need to come up with a larger budgeting plan to avoid governing, as Obama often says, “from crisis to crisis,” the sources said.

    While Obama said he would veto the Vitter language, he was “more irate” one of the sources said, over the Republican proposal to limit his ability to use tools referred to as extraordinary measures to avoid a default.

    Perhaps Obama is happy with the insurance plan he already has and wants to continue seeing his doctors.

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    Was the shutdown worth it?


    • Yes. The stand on Obamacare needs to be taken again and again until we win. (86%, 8,117 Votes)
    • No. It will cost the GOP possible support in 2014. (14%, 1,367 Votes)


    Total Voters: 9,484

    Vote


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    Rand Paul Wants To Amend The Constitution To End Political Elitism

    October 21, 2013 by Sam Rolley

    Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has introduced a Constitutional amendment that would forbid Congress to pass any law that doesn’t apply equally to the American public, Congress, the Supreme Court and the Executive branch.

    Paul’s proposed the Amendment due to contention over Obamacare provisions and an Office of Personnel management ruling which allow lawmakers and their aids to sign up for the Obamacare exchanges, as they are required to, while continuing to receive Federal employer contributions to help pay for insurance on the exchanges.

    Critics of the Federal employee loophole argue that providing hefty Federal contributions to lawmakers and their employees’ amounts to an exemption from Obamacare for Washington’s political class.

    Paul’s proposal would add wording to the Constitution dictating that, “Congress shall make no law applicable to a citizen of the United States that is not equally applicable to Congress…

    “Congress shall make no law applicable to a citizen of the United States that is not equally applicable to the executive branch of Government, including the President, Vice President, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and all other officers of the United States, including those provided for under this Constitution and by law, and inferior officers to the President established by law…

    “Congress shall make no law applicable to a citizen of the United States that is not equally applicable to judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, including the Chief Justice, and judges of such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”

    In September, Paul announced that he was working on an Amendment mandating that Obamacare regulations apply to all branches of government—including the chief justice of the Supreme Court who helped to uphold the Constitutionality of Obamacare.

    “My amendment says basically that everybody, including Justice Roberts — who seems to be such a fan of ‘Obamacare’ — gets it, too,” Paul told The Daily Caller at the time.

    Paul’s proposal goes a step further from legislation proposed by Senator David Vitter (R-La.) to end subsidies for lawmakers and their employees.

    The Kentucky Republican faces an uphill battle, however, as amending the Constitution requires super majorities in both chambers of Congress and must be ratified by the States.

    Filed Under: Conservative Politics, Courts, Government, Liberty News, Staff Reports

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