Are you kidding me?

[kag]

Are you fucking kidding me!!??

From Daily Kos:

"...The current bill will force millions of people into junk policies that offer essentially no coverage and it prohibits people from upgrading to better plans for six months. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, HOWEVER, WOULD BE EXEMPT FROM THIS PROVISION."

(my emphasis added)

How corrupt must you be to inflict this bill on the public, but then exclude yourself from having to abide by the law?

I know I'm preaching to the choir here on DU, but for FUCK'S SAKE...!

[Jim Lane]

1. The official explanation was that this was necessary to qualify for reconciliation.

If the bill qualifies for the reconciliation treatment, it can't be filibustered. Thus, the GOP can pass it with only 50 Senators plus Pence. If it doesn't qualify, then the GOP will need 60 votes to break the filibuster, and they have no hope whatsoever of getting 60.

The reconciliation rules are routinely referred to as arcane. I haven't attempted to look into them. All I know is that there was some kind of argument to be made that, if the bill changed the compensation of members of Congress, it wouldn't qualify for reconciliation treatment, so the poor dears just HAD to exempt themselves.

Is this a sound argument? On the one hand, the rules are so complicated that I can't rule it out. On the other hand, one has to be suspicious of any conclusion that's so damn convenient for the Senate leadership.

[mopinko]

3. not sure how this would apply, since the aca required them to buy

their own insurance off the exchanges, and just gave them a stipend for it.

[kag]

7. I just remember when the ACA was being debated

At one point the possibility of using reconciliation to pass it came up, and the GOPers completely lost their shit! It was supposedly "just a way to cram this horrible bill down the throats of the American people without any bipartisanship or accountability whatsoever!!!!"

Hypocrites!

[BSdetect]

2. The GOP seems to evade condemnation from their own voters.

Must feel nice to ride over the idiots who voted for you.

[Duppers]

5. Exactly!

And always.

for your post, BS.

[yuiyoshida]

4. The Only function of the GOP

IS to rip off this nation and STEAL as much as they can take, leaving the remainder of bread crumbs for the masses. Has happened before, in history, and will happen again..people will fight back against this kind of corruption that is rooted deep in our government.

[Jopin Klobe]

6. "How corrupt must you be to inflict this bill on the public"? ...

... the very God damned definition of "corrupt" - that's how corrupt ...

[trueblue2007]

8. the GOP politicians are monsters. Evil to the core.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Hey, congress allow themselves to sit on committees and insider trade in stocks, this is expected.