Today, the House Rules Committee is taking up a bill unambiguously named the "Repeal of Obamacare Act," which, as you might guess, is aimed at taking out the president's Affordable Care Act.
You may remember the Supreme Court's ruling on that.
The House is planning a full vote on Wednesday, which NPR points out will be the 31st attempt at repealing the law:
"Over the past 18 months, the House has taken 30 floor votes to try to repeal, defund or dismantle the health care law. The first attempt came on Jan. 19, 2011 just two weeks after the GOP took control of the House."
Politico's Mike Allen joined us this morning to what else the GOP has planned for this month.
"House Republicans will kick off the effort this week with another quixotic attempt to repeal Obama’s health care law," write Politico's Jake Sherman and Seung Min Kim. "Next week, they will turn to defense, passing the Defense Department’s funding bill while trying to put the Obama administration on record as having no plan to avoid deep cuts to the Pentagon next year."
What else are they planning? Mike Allen fills us in.
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Republicans: The party of children. They try to convince their base and the rest of America that whenever they're elected it's a mandate. However, they conveniently ignore that that means everyone else elected has also received a mandate from those who have elected them. You cannot have it both ways. But that's what Republican's want and do. They ignore the constituents of half or more of their districts and the rest of the country. 73% of the country want the rich to pay their fair share in taxes. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Our system was set up knowing that there would be different parties representing different views but our very intelligent founders set up a representative democracy so that INTELLIGENT people would work out their differences for the good of the people. Unfortunately the Republican party has resorted to nominating unintelligent, infantile, representatives who refuse to compromise and are willing to sacrifice the countries well being, downgrade the countries credit rating, steal the countries cash and refuse to investigate those thieves and so much more all because they worship the demi-god Ayn Rand and no longer feel any loyalty to this or any country but rather see profit as the only goal worth pursuing.
It seems like the Republicans have given up even trying to appear that they are representing their states' interests. "Party First" should be their campaign slogan.