Am I really hoping that the Republicans can pull this of?

The new Republican-controlled House plans to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care overhaul before President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address late this month, incoming House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Sunday.

“We have 242 Republicans,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” He added, “There will be a significant number of Democrats, I think, that will join us. You will remember when that vote passed in the House last March, it only passed by seven votes.”

Upton, whose committee will play a key role in the GOP’s effort to roll back the law, said that he believes the House may be near the two-thirds majority required to override a presidential veto.

Why yes, yes I do hope the Republicans pull this off. But not because I consider “Obamacare” a socialist, communist, evil black man program designed to force the white man into extreme poverty while raping all of the white man’s wives and daughters. No, I hope the Republicans pull this off because I don’t want to fucking subsidize private insurance companies.

Now, someone help me out. Is the story of Republicans, champions of subsidizing corporations at the expense of the taxpayers, fighting to repeal a law that will force millions of Americans to buy shitty, expensive private insurance from mega corporations irony or is it a coincidence?

I always get those two definitions confused.

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Remember when I said this?

Of course Obama and the Democrats are going to compromise with Republicans. They want tax breaks just like all the other rich cunts do. They just can’t come out and say they want the tax break. So they let the Republicans do the dirty work while the they piss and moan about not being able to do anything.

Well, looks like I was right:

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg
*** Done deal? Today’s New York Times reports that the Obama White House and Senate Republicans are closing in on a deal to temporarily extend the Bush tax cuts for all income levels — for two years perhaps? — in return for also extending jobless benefits and the Obama middle- class tax cuts from the 2009 stimulus. The deal could happen this week. As NBC’s Savannah Guthrie noted on “TODAY,” senior administration officials said President Obama has threatened to oppose even a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts unless unemployment benefits and other target tax cuts are also included. And it appears that Senate Republicans are more than open to that deal. “I think we will extend unemployment compensation,” Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said on “Meet the Press” yesterday. By the way, the deal appears to be more done than folks realize, but the issue continues to be the White House selling it to congressional Democrats, which will take place tomorrow on Capitol Hill when the parties hold their caucus meetings.

Huge tax breaks for the rich in return for extending shitty jobless benefits sounds like a fair trade, right? Right?

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The poor get no respect:

Led by Democrats, the House approved a measure Thursday that would permanently extend the so-called Bush tax cuts for the middle class while allowing breaks for the wealthiest Americans to expire. The final vote, 234 to 188, was largely along party lines — though 20 Democrats broke with their party to oppose the measure, while three Republicans voted yes.
Still, the vote was largely symbolic and more of a political maneuver meant to appease Democrats who oppose extending tax cuts for the wealthy. The bill has no chance of passing the Senate, where Republicans and some Democrats have signaled they won’t support a bill that doesn’t include a tax break for all Americans. (You can read Yahoo! Politics editor Jane Sasseen’s analysis of the tax-cut vote here.)

While President Obama says he remains opposed to extending tax breaks for the wealthy, the White House has signaled it might be willing to compromise.

On Wednesday, the administration, led by Obama budget director Jack Lew and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, began negotiations with members of Congress on a tax deal. One proposal on the table: a temporary extension of all the Bush tax cuts, including those for the wealthy, for three years.

Of course Obama and the Democrats are going to compromise with Republicans. They want tax breaks just like all the other rich cunts do. They just can’t come out and say they want the tax break. So they let the Republicans do the dirty work while the they piss and moan about not being able to do anything.

You see, Democrats are like that good, sexy Christian girl in high school who really wants to get boned by the star quarterback but can’t do it because of her image. So she accepts an invitation from him to go to a party up at his friend’s lake house under the guise of “trying to save his soul”. But once she gets to the house she knowingly drinks the special punch he hands her and before long she’s got her $79 dollar American Eagle jeans and $37 Victoria Secret thong around her ankles and is doing her best Nick Mangold impression.

So if you honestly believe that Democrats care about the poor than you are dumber than my cousin Mike trying to explain Inception to his retarded 19-year-old niece.

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Because they’re starting to eat their own.

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Get it? I made a dick joke using Anthony Weiner’s last name.

Goddammit it, I’m fucking pathetic. But not as pathetic as the Democrats inability to use reconciliation to give us a public option.

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Those goddamn 1993 Republicans were nothing more than socialist Nazi gangbangers who were trying to kill everyone’s grandma:

For Republicans, the idea of requiring every American to have health insurance is one of the most abhorrent provisions of the Democrats’ health overhaul bills.

“Congress has never crossed the line between regulating what people choose to do and ordering them to do it,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). “The difference between regulating and requiring is liberty.”

But Hatch’s opposition is ironic, or some would say, politically motivated. The last time Congress debated a health overhaul, when Bill Clinton was president, Hatch and several other senators who now oppose the so-called individual mandate actually supported a bill that would have required it.

[...]

One reason the individual mandate appealed to conservatives is because it called for individual responsibility to address what economists call the “free-rider effect.” That’s the fact that if a person is in an accident or comes down with a dread disease, that person is going to get medical care, and someone is going to pay for it.

“We called this responsible national health insurance,” says Pauly. “There was a kind of an ethical and moral support for the notion that people shouldn’t be allowed to free-ride on the charity of fellow citizens.

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But the summary of the Republican bill from the Clinton era and the Democratic bills that passed the House and Senate over the past few months are startlingly alike.

Beyond the requirement that everyone have insurance, both call for purchasing pools and standardized insurance plans. Both call for a ban on insurers denying coverage or raising premiums because a person has been sick in the past. Both even call for increased federal research into the effectiveness of medical treatments — something else that used to have strong bipartisan support, but that Republicans have been backing away from recently.

Only in America will you find a liberal party trying to reform health care by using a 17-year-old  conservative party idea and the conservative party calling the idea the liberal party stole from them as a socialized, Marxist, government-run death camp.

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Have you no shame?

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