There are too
many scandals happening in Washington, D.C.!
How are we to focus on any of them when there are so many? The Obama Administration has been tricking us
for the past five years, keeping our eyes on their “right hand” while pulling
tricks with their “left hand.” They have
been “fundamentally transforming” our nation right before our eyes, and they
continue to do so!
While we were still straining to
understand how the administration could tell so many lies about the terrorist
attacks in Benghazi, the administration unloosed their next scandal when they dumped
the news about the IRS targeting conservative individuals and groups. Early this week we learned that the
Department of Justice (DOJ) had illegally tapped Associated Press telephone
lines. The media is very upset with the
administration about having their telephones tapped, and the Acting Director of
the IRS resigned this afternoon.
Meanwhile, we need to be questioning what is happening while our focus
is on these three scandals.
For instance, tomorrow, the
House of Representatives will vote one again to repeal Obamacare. The House has already passed two bills to
repeal Obamacare, but the Senate refuses to even vote on it. The House will probably pass yet another bill
to repeal Obamacare, but the bill will most likely die in the Senate just as
the previous two bills did. Senate
President Harry Reid (D-NV) called Obamacare a “train wreck,” but he most
likely will not allow a vote to repeal the entire program. At
any rate, can we really expect President Obama to sign a bill repealing
Obamacare? Don’t be silly!
Congress repealed part of
Obamacare in the fiscal cliff bill in January 2013. They repealed the Community Living Assistance
Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, “a long-term care provision that was so
unworkable that one of its own administrators warned Congress that the program could
fold.”
Practically speaking, there is only
one way to stop Obamacare before it starts to hurt us, and this can happen
without support from the Senate or the President. The U.S. Constitution gives the power of the
purse to the House of Representatives, meaning that all spending bills must
begin in the House. This means that the
House has the final say on any spending bill.
If the House refuses to fund Obamacare, then Obamacare or the effects of
it will die.
The scandal at the IRS is yet
another reason why Obamacare must die.
The same IRS that admitted to targeting conservatives for political
reasons has the power under Obamacare to enforce its mandates, taxes, and
regulations. Will they deny health care
to certain people simply because of their political views? Maybe they will. Do you want the IRS – a government agency
that Americans distrust already – to know all your private health information
and to control all your health treatments?
I do not!
The
following information was added on Friday, May 17, 2013: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act known Obamacare, the divisive health care law
pushed by Democrats and President Obama.
This is the 37th time that the Republican-led House has voted
to repeal Obamacare in the three years since it became law. The repeal vote was 229-195, with all
Republicans voting for repeal and all but two Democrats voting to keep it. The Republicans are fairly certain that the
Senate will not repeal this awful law, but they “see a political advantage to
keeping the pressure up as the administration tries to get all the moving parts
of the law working in the next few months.
They’re hoping that problems with its implementation will help them
recapture the Senate in next year’s midterm elections.” Democrats, on the other hand, call the GOP “efforts
to de-fund or partly scale back [Obamacare] a waste of time – even an
obsession.”
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