GOP Zero Sum Sham: No Jobs Bill Unless Obamacare is Repealed
enlarge There you go. Orrin Hatch has sent the signal: If we want a jobs plan, we’ll have to give up any right to access our current health care system. Of course, he buries the threat inside a rant about the individual mandate, because that’s unpopular with many, not just those on the right. So now we have Republicans saying “Want a job? Die.” These people make me sick. Oops. Guess that’s their goal . Update: Eric Cantor has taken up the hostage-taking on behalf of the House. Washington Post: But by putting the disaster aid funding on a separate piece of legislation that’s required to keep the government running, House leaders seem to be calculating that the Senate will have no choice but to go along or risk a partial government shutdown. Oh, and this: Besides being about half the overall size of the Senate’s disaster aid measure, the House bill ties cuts to an Obama-backed loan program to encourage the production of fuel efficient vehicles to pay for the $1 billion in immediate aid for 2011 . Typically disaster aid is added to the budget as an emergency expense, and the insistence by Republicans on so-called offsets has Democrats fuming.
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GOP Zero Sum Sham: No Jobs Bill Unless Obamacare is Repealed
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