Yawn:
The House voted again Wednesday to repeal the 2010 healthcare reform law, giving Republicans some revenge against the late June Supreme Court ruling that found the law to be constitutional.
Members approved the bill in a 244-185 vote, after five hours of debate that stretched over two days.
I didn’t watch one second of the five hours of “debate.” I doubt too many people were willing to make the House of Representatives’ colossal waste of time their own. The only suspense was in the roll call, to see how many scaredy-cat Democrats would vote to repeal ObamaCare. It turns out there were five, and none of them were particularly surprising. Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma appears to just be a flat-out conservative. He voted for repeal even though he is retiring and doesn’t need to worry about angering his constituents. Let’s look carefully to see where he finds work.
Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas is also retiring. He was Chair of the Blue Dog Health Care Task Force in the 111th Congress (2009-2011). He voted against the PPACA.
Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah is one of the most conservative members of the Democratic Party. He voted against the PPACA.
Finally, Reps. Mike McIntyre and Larry Kissell of North Carolina both voted against the PPACA. Now they’ve joined the three above in voting to repeal the bill. There were 34 Democrats in the House who voted against final passage of the PPACA in 2010. So, having five voting to repeal it isn’t very impressive. If you look at the roll call of the 2010 vote, you’ll notice that almost every Democrat who voted against the bill is no longer in office. It’s hard to say if any Democrats saved their political careers by opposing the president.
In any case, aren’t the Republicans boring?
I’m thinking this pup’s been milked just as much and more than any Bill has the misfortune of experiencing. The final gift the R’s think it gave them was to tag the Dems who voted against it as tax hikers.
I’m thinkin the real slavemaster of this era is Grover Norquist. Where is Scientology when you need it?
What’s Kissell’s deal? Who got to him. In his first two House races, he ran almost as a Progressive. Once in the House, he turned into one of the worst of the Blue Dogs(or their ilk).
I don’t know. He’s been a major disappointment. On the other hand, he has a tough district.
How tough was it when the DCCC ignored him(2006) and he came really close to beating Robin Hayes anyway? I don’t know what the district is like now but it used to be a swing district.
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The Old Grey Lady is stupid. Kissell’s first election was in 2006. I know, I contributed at the time through ActBlue. Kissell lost that election by 329 votes, which shocked the Democratic establishment as they ignored his race. He ran again against Hayes in 2008 and beat him.
Yes, they reported that accurately.
This was vote number 33 to get rid of the ACA.
Maybe they’ll do number 34 in October.
More likely next week and every week until the election adjournment. It gives them an excuse for not voting on middle class tax cuts and jobs.