U.S. Senator
John Thune (R-South Dakota)
Republicans have made it clear that they are not fans of the Affordable Care Act (50+ House votes to repeal and counting) and just this past week, the U.S. Senate began committee meetings to work on their own plan to repeal the President's healthcare law. And we can't forget the lawsuit John Boehner likes to brag about or GOP calls for impeachment.,
In the next few weeks, the Supreme Court will decide King v. Burwell, an independently brought case that has gotten verbal support from Republican congressmen and that is based on one four-word phrase in the law: "established by the state." The basis of the case is that this one phrase disqualifies anyone who lives in a state being served by a federal exchange from receiving a subsidy to help pay for their healthcare plan. (Of course, no one would be using a federal exchange if GOP governors hadn't refused to set up their state exchanges, but that is a point intentionally ignored in the suit.)
Republican leadership is on record saying that the intent of the law was to allow subsidies to go to everyone who qualified for one, no matter what type exchange they used to sign up; but the case has gone forward nevertheless.
what eye thynk: So, basically, having spent years fighting "Obamacare." Republicans now find themselves on the brink of actually seeing the hated law gutted. Of course, this means that millions of people in Republican led states will lose their subsidies and will be looking for someone to blame. And the record is going to make it nearly impossible to keep that blame from falling squarely on GOP shoulders.
But that's not going to keep some Republican lawmakers from trying; which brings me to a tweet sent out by South Dakota's Senator Thune:
"6 million people risk losing their healthcare subsidies yet @POTUS continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people."This goes beyond stupid and straight to the ugly side of desperate. I don't think even Mr. Thune knows what he's trying to say. It's like he's trying to cover up a self-inflicted wound using a band-aid with no adhesive.
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ReplyDeletethe POTUS was on TV this morning, and while maintaining a polite demeanor he pointed out those same 4 words and offered up legal explanations concerning them.
ReplyDeleteThen he, basically, laughed at the stupidity of those republicans who still maintain that the the ACA isn't working.
As for the tweets: just one more example why republicans should not have access to things with buttons on them: phones and, say, nuclear weapons.