So yesterday, House Republicans tried again..this time they offered to talk about re-opening the government if the Senate agreed to postpone the personal penalty for the uninsured who refuse to purchase health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
what eye thynk: When will they realize this anti-ACA tactic is dead in the water? The Senate can't make changes to the law through negotiations even if they wanted to, (and they definitely don't want to). Certainly Congress can make changes to the law, they can even repeal it; but to do that they must write a bill, debate that bill, (where they are welcome to negotiate all they want to), and vote on that bill.
A law that was passed by both houses of Congress--no matter how lopsided or partisan the final vote--signed into law by the duly elected President of the United States and upheld by the Supreme Court is not negotiable; you can't blackmail it out of existence. That is not how our democracy works.
Maybe passing a class in constitutional law should be required before allowing children to sit in Congress; though I wonder how much difference that would make to the adolescents currently playing at Tea Party-ing since they have made it clear that they believe themselves to be so exceptional that the rules don't apply to them.
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