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2013-04-25 Home Front: Politix
Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption
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Posted by Beavis 2013-04-25 09:52|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 Time to move fast, while they are paralyzed with the "deer in the headlights" look:

TIE THEM DOWN.

ALLOW NO ESCAPE.

They created the Obamacare-mack truck bearing down on them.

Let them either get rid of it or be run over by it.
Posted by Ptah 2013-04-25 11:31||   2013-04-25 11:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't wait to see the 2014 political campaign ads if this passes.
Posted by Steve White 2013-04-25 11:43||   2013-04-25 11:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Heat the tar, pluck the fowl and stretch the ropes.
Posted by Spanky Henbane9543 2013-04-25 12:19||   2013-04-25 12:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Quelle surprise! From the same people who've exempted themselves from insider trading regulations.

In the next version of the Constitution under the subsection on the Legislative branch will be the prohibition to exempt themselves from laws and regulations they impose on the people.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-25 12:28||   2013-04-25 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 If they do exempt themselves, they have proven they no longer are fit for their office and need to be removed.

(Although you think the passing of Obamacare would have been enough for that)
Posted by DarthVader 2013-04-25 13:44||   2013-04-25 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 As a US Citizen, a person is both qualified for public office and to be taxed. To exempt oneself gives the appearance of a foreign entity holding office and creating laws which they can pick and choose which ones to be subject to.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-04-25 16:27||   2013-04-25 16:27|| Front Page Top

#7 "gives the appearance of a foreign entity holding office"

Appearance, my ass!
Posted by Barbara 2013-04-25 16:31||   2013-04-25 16:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Zero chance of this. It's Democrat suicide, I suspect the Rethuglicans are trying to figure a way to get it to a vote and then leave the asses hanging, but the asses aren't that stupid.

Good clean fun, American Politics style.
Posted by Shipman 2013-04-25 17:33||   2013-04-25 17:33|| Front Page Top

#9 It seems the lawmakers realize that O-Care isn't worth a plug nickle. They are a little slow coming to that realization. They must have finally gotten around to reading it after passing it.
Posted by JohnQC 2013-04-25 17:52||   2013-04-25 17:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Read it? I doubt it! Heard about it, maybe. Had their aides describe how the public hates it, perhaps. Got a few phone calls from small business owners and doctors? Possibly.
Posted by Bobby 2013-04-25 18:15||   2013-04-25 18:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Speaker Boehner speaks up:

In response to reports that congressional leaders from both parties are seeking exemptions from Obamacare, Speaker John Boehner's spokesman released the following statement.

"The fact that Democratic leaders want to opt themselves out of the ObamaCare exchanges shows that Sen. Baucus isn't the only one who realizes the President's healthcare law is a 'train wreck.' The Speaker would like to see resolution of this problem, along with the other nightmares created by Washington Democrats' health law, which is why he supports full repeal. In the meantime, it is Democrats' problem to solve. He will not sneak any language into bills to solve it for them - and the Democratic leadership knows that," says spokesman Michael Steel.
Posted by trailing wife 2013-04-25 22:23||   2013-04-25 22:23|| Front Page Top

#12 There is concern in some quarters that the provision requiring lawmakers and staffers to join the exchanges, if it isn't revised, could lead to a "brain drain" on Capitol Hill

So, like, the average IQ on Capitol Hill would drop from "fern" to "single-cell organism"?
Posted by Matt 2013-04-25 22:24||   2013-04-25 22:24|| Front Page Top

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