Wonkbook: House Republicans hate Obamacare. But they also kind of need it.

[Bill USA]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/17/wonkbook-house-republicans-hate-obamacare-but-they-also-kind-of-need-it/


On Thursday, the House of Representatives cast its 37th vote to repeal all or part of the health-care law. Or possibly its 38th vote. And I’ve heard some say its 36th vote. It depends how you count.

Why try another? Because a number of freshmen haven’t yet had a chance to vote on a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act. And the House Republican Conference feels that repealing Obamacare is something every House member should get to do at least once. It’s a rite of passage, like dry-heaving after Paul Ryan’s P-90X class, or offering your first amendment in committee.

The repeal passed the House though it will, as usual, be ignored by the Senate. But these news stories that put the words “repeal” and “Obamacare” near to one another have had an effect. As my colleague Sarah Kliff writes, “Last month, the Kaiser Family Foundation polled Americans on whether the Affordable Care Act is still law. Twelve percent of Americans — that’s about one in eight people — think that Congress repealed the Affordable Care Act. Another 23 percent aren’t sure or refused to answer the question.”

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This vote had another interesting side effect, though. “It also repeals a central deficit-reduction component of the GOP’s own budget by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), which was released in March with much bravado and projections that it would balance the budget within a decade,” writes TPM’s Sahil Kapur.
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[Doctor_J]

1. The Repukes can contradict themselves ten times a day

Big media won't call them on it, and their Hate Radio/Fox Lies addicts are too stupid to even notice.