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Today The House Has Passed Their 40th Bill Against Obamacare


Posted: Aug 2, 2013

Before going home for a month of vacation for summer recess, the House has passed their 40th bill to repeal or dismantle Obamacare.  Fortieth bill!  Why?  I guess because they thought that was a good use of taxpayers' money, passing yet another bill that would go absolutely nowhere, and maybe that the Democrats had just overlooked the first 39?

Yes, of course they know it's a waste of time and money, but they are willing to spend all that time and all that money to pass 40 bills-to-nowhere to prove to everybody, once and for all, that they are against government waste.

And blinded by their political ambitions, they fail to see that they are proving exactly the opposite.

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Counting all types, it's actually approaching 70. :) - They're under orders to spend this "leav

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organizing people in their districts to fight Obamacare, trying to create a national groundswell. Umhm. They are equipped with scripted lies to tell and deceptive, fearmongering handouts to hand out.

I was out of patience with these people long ago. There is no excuse for this appalling behavior. They do no longer call themselves the moral Americans and speak of family values, so the hypocrisy did finally come home to even them. Or they just got tired of trying to justify taking food from children and healthcare from the ill. It's all baldly about money now, although dressed up with phony concern about the national deficit.

My own congressman speaks in ALEC-scripted phrases, and his phony "town halls" are all by phone so none of his "constituents" can upset his routine with unscripted questions.

But, right down on the square is a new healthcare counseling center, with a big banner across the front that can't be missed. The nice ladies in there explain to anyone who walks in what healthcare benefits will be available to him personally, not just under Obamacare but under ancillary state and federal programs, and at what cost, and how to sign up.

Anyone who's wondering should check on the counseling resources available in their own area.

************ appear to be so wise and intelligent. (sm) - me

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******* I bet you all don't even know who wrote the bill. Do you.

No, of course not. You don't get how despicable - these silly, ineffectual efforts are. nm

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Do you at least know WHERE the majority of it - was written?

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Do you know that in 2010 24% of voters identified - as TP, but only 8% now? Given that,
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do you know where this discredited minority group, rejected by the decent people who ran from it as it devolved, gets it power? How did so many of these silly incompetent little people get elected to Congress? Or more specifically, who got them there and who's pulling their strings?

These are extremely basic, longstanding questions. Do you even know who your real leaders are?
I guess that'd be another "no." - I figured as much. LOL
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is it bigger than a breadbox? - nm
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Of course we know who wrote it! - Seriously

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Of course we know who wrote it. It's actually not who you think it is. It was actually the underpaid staff of the representative that put his name on it. Been there, done that!

And, yes, we can find Libya on a map, too. It's over in Africa just a smidge away from where Obama was born (sarcasm). LOL.

Nope. Has nothing to do with a representative - nor his staff. Bzzzzzz. That's what they tol

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so please, go ahead and tell us - sm
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we are supposed to discuss here. Not taunt.

It wasn't sarcasm, it was an indication of how - just saying

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sad and desperate the TB'ers are...

birth away birthers.

Who Cares Who Wrote It--It Will Never Be Law - Seriously

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I really don't care who wrote the 40th bill-to-nowhere, or the other 39 for that matter.

Not a single one of them will ever be signed by the POTUS.

Awful waste of taxpayers' time and money.

The 40+ bills-to-nowhere and countless attempts to derail Obamacare have convinced me that the right wingers are serious about cutting out government waste....... NOT.

I heard an interview the other night... - this is just about the only

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this congress HAS done.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17449-why-we-have-a-do-nothing-congress

A total and complete disgrace and waste of taxpayer $$$. Sickening.

Just another progressive organization - nothing to - see here except propaganda.

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Maybe you'll believe - this...

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http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/06/13/poll-approval-rating-congress-hits-record-low

But the fact that they've done less and passed fewer laws than any other congress in history is fact, pure and simple. I hope they all have lovely vacations from their vacation. *gag*
That's old. From June. Don't watch Fox anyway. - Just in case you thought I did.
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...and what has the president done? --besides hurt the USA - with bloated Obamacare, huh?

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Oh, that's right... there is Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and so on, but you don't care about any of that, right? --since they are "phony scandals". This administration is embarrassing your country.

The President hasn't hurt the USA with - Libby

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Obamacare. The only people he has hurt have been the greedy insurance companies who, for the very first time, are FORCED to compete for business with "Obamacare" and the exchanges that pop up as a result of "Obamacare."

I'm ashamed only of the blatantly open republicans who are openly trying to hurt the middle class and poor people.

And I'm VERY ashamed of those people.

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