Conservatives in the house have put repeal of ObamaCare front and center. The vote is scheduled for Jan 12 and the 2 page bill can be found here.
To date there are two NC democrats ( Heath Shuler and Larry Kissell) who voted against ObamaCare's implementation but now refuse to vote for ObamaCare's repeal.
Rep. Larry Kissell offered this gibberish up as an excuse for his about face via The Hill:
"I am not going to vote to repeal it," Kissell told The Hill, adding that despite his opposition to the measure, Democrats "put a lot of energy into this bill."
Rep. Heath Shuler, though, gave a more honest excuse, also via The Hill:
So, on the one hand we have Kissell who likely retained his seat this past Nov. as a result of his rejection of ObamaCare, but who now rejects ObamaCare's repeal due to all the Democratic energy that would be wasted. Gibberish.Rep. Heath Shuler (N.C.), another Democrat who voted "no" last year, told The Hill that the GOP's plan to repeal the full healthcare bill is "immoral."
“There are some very good things in this bill that have already become law: Parents can keep their kids on their insurance till they’re 26, it’s helping to close the donut hole for seniors, and children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied access to coverage. I think it is not just wrong, but immoral to take those things away," Shuler said in a statement.
While on the other hand we have Rep. Heath Shuler who in a single statement traces the two year arc of the greatest dance with immoral governance our nation has known.
Those "good" things Shuler mentioned in his statement were not good enough for his yes vote in the implementation of ObamaCare, but those same "good" things are now important enough to not support ObamaCare's repeal.
What changed? ObamaCare's passage.
Shuler's statement lays bare the gamble the Democrat Party took in foisting ObamaCare on America. They gambled that ignoring the will of the people and forcing this unwanted and difficult to remove law on the citizenry would give them the long term political return that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicade gave them at the small short term cost of the house and possibly the Senate.
They were willing to forsake representing the citizens of this nation and, instead, rule as a tyrannical body (a true tyranny of the majority) to force upon our nation law that empowers themselves at the cost of individual liberty.
And that is the change that has forced both Rep. Shuler and Rep. Kissell to not support the repeal of ObamaCare. It is also the Democrat gamble. ObamaCare is now law and the removal of that law will become politically unpalatable over time due what Shuler describes as "good things" within the law. It is a law that will weave its way into our society just as Social Security has and as it does it will create bureaucracies upon bureaucracies filled with government employees loyal to the Democrat Party, loyal to the very party that originally ignored the will of the people for that vote. Not only will democrat voters be created, but the tools to influence the citizenry toward the "greatest good" as defined by unaccountable bureaucrats will be in the hands of the party of social engineering.
Again, all this power and influence would go to a party willing to govern against the will of the people to gain that power.
Shuler, Kissell and all the others who voted against ObamaCare and then vote against its repeal are supporting the fruit of that tyrannical majority and are themselves practicing immoral governance.
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Heath Shuler personally supported Obamacare from the beginning, but he fulfilled his role as a representative and voted "no" because that's what he felt the majority of his constituents wanted. Representative Democracy. Look it up.
ReplyDeleteYep, just what the post said. He voted against Obamacare, however the post added that he voted against its repeal after Conservatives retook the house.
DeleteHe voted against it before he voted for it.
Look it up.