Previewing what a total cluster-fuck they will land us in if the courts strike Obamacare down:
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/28/8125581/dh ... epublicans
Last night previewed how House Republicans would handle an Obamacare fix. They wouldn't.
Updated by Sarah Kliff on February 28, 2015, 9:20 a.m. ET @sarahkliff sarah@vox.com
Friday night was a mess for House Republicans, as party infighting nearly forced the Department of Homeland Security to shutdown.
It was also a preview of what to expect should the Supreme Court rule against Obamacare this fall. Namely, total chaos.
The debate over whether to fund the Department of Homeland Security exposed persistent fault lines that divide Republican House leadership and the rank-and-file.
Republican Leadership wanted to move forward with a clean funding bill that would keep DHS up and running. Conservatives, however, had more demands: they insisted on pairing funding with a bill that would strike down the President's executive actions on immigration, just in case courts overrule the recent ruling against that program.
Republicans managed to save face at the last minute, passing a bill to fund DHS for an additional week at 10 p.m. on Friday — two hours before the department was set to shutter.
House Republicans could have to deal with an even more vexing situation this spring, when the Supreme Court hands down its decision in King v. Burwell. That's the case where challengers argue that the Obama administration does not have the legal authority to distribute insurance subsidies on the federal marketplace.
If the Supreme Court rules in the challengers' favor, expect to see something like the DHS fracas on steroids. (see link for more) ... "
".... Obamacare is a major issue for Republicans, more so than DHS
Obamacare has, for five years now, been the Republican Party's white whale. They've thrown dozens of repeal votes, countless election ads, and two Supreme Court cases at the law. None of it has worked and the president's health care law has survived largely intact.
If the Supreme Court rules against the law, that will be the first time that Republicans have succeeded at actually blowing a hole in the law. And that will near certainly mean lots of debate and fighting over what to do next. Republicans would be getting the opportunity they've hoped for since March 2010, when the President signed the Affordable Care Act into law. And that, without a doubt, would be an extraordinarily giant mess. ... "
Hey Rudy G.! Its not Obama that does not love America, it's the Republican congress.
yrs,
Rubato