Obama administration diverts $500M to IRS to implement healthcare reform law...

onalandline · Apr 11, 2012

Looks like Obummer is adamant about implementing his unconstitutional health care law...

Obama administration diverts $500M to IRS to implement healthcare reform law:

The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the presidents healthcare law.

The money is only part of the IRSs total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The tax agency is responsible for several key provisions of the new law, including the unpopular individual mandate.

Republican lawmakers have tried to cut off funding to implement the healthcare law, at least until after the Supreme Court decides whether to strike it down. That ruling is expected by June, and oral arguments last week indicated the justices might well overturn at least the individual mandate, if not the whole law.

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waltky · Apr 21, 2012

Obama's own party havin' misgivings about Obamacare...

Democrats expressing buyers remorse on Obama's healthcare law
4/19/12 - An increasing number of Democrats are taking potshots at President Obamas healthcare law ahead of a Supreme Court decision that could overturn it.

The public grievances have come from centrists and liberals and reflect rising anxiety ahead of Novembers elections. I think we would all have been better off President Obama politically, Democrats in Congress politically, and the nation would have been better off if we had dealt first with the financial system and the other related economic issues and then come back to healthcare, said Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.), who is retiring at the end of this Congress. Miller, who voted for the law, said the administration wasted time and political capital on healthcare reform, resulting in lingering economic problems that will continue to plague Obamas reelection chances in 2012.

Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.) also criticized his partys handling of the issue, and said he repeatedly called on his leaders to figure out how they were going to pay for the bill, and then figure out what they could afford. Cardoza, who like Miller will retire at the end of the Congress, said he thought the bill should have been done in digestible pieces that the American public could understand and that we could implement. The most recent wave of misgivings from Democrats began with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who told New York magazine that Democrats paid a terrible price for healthcare. Frank said Obama had erred in pushing the legislation after GOP Sen. Scott Browns January 2010 victory in Massachusetts, which took away the Senate Democrats 60th vote.

Most of the second-guessing has come from retiring members such as Frank and Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who this week predicted the law will be Obamas biggest downside heading into the November elections. Such members can afford to be more candid in speaking their minds without offending their leadership, but are also likely to reflect the feelings of other lawmakers in the House and Senate. To be sure, the comments from Frank and others have stirred up supporters of the law, who say the criticism is misinformed. Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), for example, took issue with Webbs suggestion that the president should have given Congress more direction on the issue. Webb said the way the law was passed cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader. Maybe if you werent on one of the committees you wouldnt have known that, but the administration was super involved with it, said Schwartz, who served on the Ways and Means Committee when the healthcare law was approved.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who helped write the law as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee in 2010, compared Franks comments to Democratic hand-wringing during the year-plus legislative debate. Democrats were divided over what Obama should tackle first, and the White House was repeatedly urged to abandon the effort. Waxman said Obama made the right decision and brushed off the latest round of second-guessing. I dont know that it makes a lot of difference one way or the other, Waxman said. People can say what they think. People were saying it at the time. People said publicly, and to the president personally they called on him not to go forward with healthcare, even in the White House. And he, to his credit, stood as a stalwart supporter of getting that job done. Frank, he added, eventually got the financial reform bill he wanted.

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onalandline · Apr 22, 2012

waltky said: ↑

Obama's own party havin' misgivings about Obamacare...

Democrats expressing buyers’ remorse on Obama's healthcare law
4/19/12 - An increasing number of Democrats are taking potshots at President Obama’s healthcare law ahead of a Supreme Court decision that could overturn it.
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I guess they should have read it.

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