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Boehner, Noem, GOP to Play Repeal Game Next Week

Representative-Elect Kristi Noem will get her first chance to grandstand on her campaign promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act next week. Noem's GOP bosses will bring the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" to a vote next Wednesday, January 12. The repeal bill is two pages long, compared to the couple-thousand-page health reform is seeks to undo... proof that any idiot can shout No! but that coming up with a real solution for a complicated problem takes some work.

Of course, the Republicans are making their symbolic repeal bill even simpler by ignoring their own rules: the Republicans are exempting health reform repeal from the requirement that the House pay for every bit of legislation it passes. Remember: if Speaker Boehner could slip 13 Democratic Senators and President Obama a mickey and get them to approve the repeal, they'd have to pay back $130 billion in savings over the next decade. Repealing PPACA will also put the states several billion dollars further in the hole. Thanks for the kind thoughts, Kristi!

Also not on Noem's agenda: any vote to reject her own government health insurance. Come on, Kristi: if government shouldn't be involved in my health coverage, it shouldn't be involved in yours. Your fellow freshman Congressman Joe Walsh from Illinois is heeding the call to consistency; your Tea Party friends think you should too!

3 Comments

  1. Thad Wasson 2011.01.04

    The State of South Dakota is playing both sides. We have the AG involved in the lawsuit to deem Obamacare unconstitutional, while placing some state employees on Obamacare.

    The U.S. House doesn't have the courage to carry this bill any further than this dog and pony show.

  2. caheidelberger Post author | 2011.01.04

    Thad, I have tried to get out of the habit of woulda-coulda-shoulda. But in an alternate universe, you're in Washington right now, saying the above to John Boehner. I might enjoy that universe, at least on the pending vote.

  3. larry kurtz 2011.01.04

    Exactly. So, aren't these dorks just going through the motions of indignation just to appease the voters that brung 'em?

    Can you guys recall Jackley?

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