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Obamacare "Lite" under lock and key?

Maybe they should just changed the name back to whatever The Heritage Foundation was going to call it, that will make it as Good as American Apple Pie. ;)
 
It's hidden somewhere and even--perhaps especially--conservatives like Paul aren't being told where.

House Republican leaders have a new version of their major Obamacare repeal and replacement bill. They just don’t want you to see it.

The document is being treated a bit like a top-secret surveillance intercept. It is expected to be available to members and staffers on the House Energy and Commerce panel starting Thursday, but only in a dedicated reading room, one Republican lawmaker and a committee aide said. Nobody will be given copies to take with them.
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And the reason is actually, oddly enough, a somewhat positive one: they're getting ready to tell conservatives in the GOP caucus to pound sand.

With Donald Trump reportedly on board, the House is poised to steamroll conservative opposition to Obamacare repeal
Privately, senior Republican lawmakers and staff are more blunt. They say they have no problem steamrolling conservatives by daring them to vote against an Obamacare repeal that their constituents have demanded for years.

“Conservatives are going to be in a box,” said one senior Republican lawmaker. Trump, the source predicted, eventually will “go out front and … tell the conservatives … they’re either for this or for keeping Obamacare.”
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If what Rand Paul is saying is true, rest assured that the new version will have things in it that they do not want the public and certain Republicans to see.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
So NOW it's an issue?


Why wasn't it an issue when Obama did it?
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Because the Dems didn't do this. Any idiot back then could print out a copy of their bill and show up at a town hall waving it. In fact many did!
 
Greenbeard said:
Because the Dems didn't do this. Any idiot back then could print out a copy of their bill and show up at a town hall waving it. In fact many did!
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wait wut?

"REP. NANCY PELOSI: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it..."
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
wait wut?

"REP. NANCY PELOSI: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it..."
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All of their bills were online (and marked up on C-Span). Color me shocked some people who never bothered to look at them still think they weren't available.

This secret reading room thing is a GOP innovation.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
So NOW it's an issue?

Why wasn't it an issue when Obama did it?
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I figured I'd see someone using that spin. Why doesn't it point the other direction, eh?


"You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it's about diet, not diabetes. It's going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."


Ring a bell? If it is not an issue now, why was it then?

We seem to be in some weird territory where we all agree that two wrongs don't make a right morally speaking, but does fully authorize the second wrong; some strange region where Republicans can do the exact type of things they criticized in Democrats, while saying that it was still worse for the Democrats to do it....
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
wait wut?

"REP. NANCY PELOSI: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it..."
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Don't throw stones in glass houses. Unless you're on the right, in which case nuke the place and blame a lib?
 
Mr Person said:
Don't throw stones in glass houses. Unless you're on the right, in which case nuke the place and blame a lib?
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Do you want my account information? I mean since you like giving me arguments I did not make, I figure you could just post for me instead.
 
Mr Person said:
I figured I'd see someone using that spin. Why doesn't it point the other direction, eh?


"You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it's about diet, not diabetes. It's going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."


Ring a bell? If it is not an issue now, why was it then?

We seem to be in some weird territory where we all agree that two wrongs don't make a right morally speaking, but does fully authorize the second wrong; some strange region where Republicans can do the exact type of things they criticized in Democrats, while saying that it was still worse for the Democrats to do it....
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So wait, after she makes a fool of herself, she gets to correct herself and all is good?


IT's the same amount of issue, for me btw, then as now. Idiot congress people are lazy as ****,
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
wait wut?

"REP. NANCY PELOSI: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it..."
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Mr Person said:
Don't throw stones in glass houses. Unless you're on the right, in which case nuke the place and blame a lib?
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ReverendHellh0und said:
Do you want my account information? I mean since you like giving me arguments I did not make, I figure you could just post for me instead.
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The only original contribution you made was "wait wut?"; the rest of the post was a chopped up Pelosi quote.

That's not an argument.
 
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