ObamaCare has proven to be decidedly damaging legislation to its supporters. In large part this past fall's wave election in which supporters of ObamaCare were swept from power was the result of the unpopularity of ObamaCare. It seems, though, that some conservatives believe that they have ridden that wave of unpopularity, that it has passed, and that their feet are now on firm ground. They now feel confident that they can push against the people's will once again.
Conservatives have allowed ObamaCare to expand through HR-525, The Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011.
Description below via GovTrack:
Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise a public health workforce grant program designed to increase the number of individuals in the public health workforce to include a health professions school or program of veterinary public health. Defines "veterinary public health" to include veterinarians engaged in one or more of the following areas to the extent such areas have an impact on human health: biodefense and emergency preparedness; emerging and reemerging infection diseases; environmental health; ecosystem health pre- and post-harvest food protection; regulatory medicine; diagnostic laboratory medicine; veterinary pathology; biomedical research; the practice of food animal medicine in rural areas; and government practice. Expands the public health workforce loan repayment program to make such veterinarians eligible for the program.
Renee Ellmers - Nay, Virginia Foxx - Nay, Sue Myrick - Nay, Patrick McHenry - Nay. A short list.
However, North Carolina Republicans Walter Jones and Howard Coble voted with all NC democrats in support of this expansion of ObamaCare at a time when others like Michelle Bachmann have been fighting to defund it.
And what of John Boehner who's leadership allowed this bill to come to the floor in the first place?
Some Conservatives in the House seem to be more enamored with the potential power that would fall their way through ObamaCare than to keep their obligations to their supporters - those who wasted their votes on them.
Who are these supposed Conservatives who are loosing me so quickly? Where are all the Renee Ellmers and Michelle Bachmanns that seemed so vocal five short months ago?
They have become the Howard Cobles and Walter Jones' of the Conservative party, representatives imbued with arrogance in the face of last fall's election and lost to their lust for power through ObamaCare.
All 95 of them.
H/T Pat Caddell via radio
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