Could Not Make Obama a "One-term" President, so Just Wreck the Country
(and just think McConnell is the "Leader" - Ouch)
Moving the Keystone XL Pipeline Extension Bill
(GOP Promise Made/Kept)
There is nothing in the world more important than keeping
one's promise, except in politics. Watching this "new/old" GOP
in power just a few days is reason to cringe. Two examples were stunts; albeit,
promises make for sure, but for whom? Their first two bills passed (the votes can be seen
here):
— H.R. 37: To repeal portions of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)/Obama-care, to reduce Federal Government
spending. and reduce the salaries of Members of Congress, and for other
purposes.
— H.R. 30: Bill: Save American Workers Act
of 2015 (don't you just love these heart-felt, fancy bill titles)? This was the first
strike against Obama-care. Key parts reported on:
• Under Obama-care, all employers with 50 or more
full-time employees will be required to provide health coverage, and the
GOP bill would change
the law’s definition of “full time” from 30 to 40 hours per week.
• Republicans say the change will lift the health
law’s burden on businesses, which have lobbed heavily for the change. “Not only
does it hurt employers faced with unexpected insurance costs, but it prevents
them from creating new jobs and threatens them from maintaining their current
workforce,” said Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, a member of the House GOP
leadership.
• • Democrats point out that the GOP’s proposed
change would:
1. cost $53 billion, and
2. force 1 million American workers to lose employer
coverage and thus “back the future” of now coverage and just imagine they are
not only losing the coverage, pay possibly, but imagine, too, they are
low-income.
So, whom do you trust: (1) the GOP for forcing Obama promises to
fail at every turn, while getting their promises enacted into law by forcing a veto (which
ain't gonna happen) and just for political points and returning favors for $$$
that got them this majority rule, or (1)? The answer is self-evident.
Now over in the Senate with Mr. Peepers (Sen. Mitch
McConnell), and what we face over the next at least two years (turmoil and more
raw hatred served with nasty, ugly politics - fed up yet?):
WASHINGTON
(AP) — In command and ready for a fight, defiant Republicans ignored two
White House veto threats and advanced bills in Congress Thursday curbing
President Obama's cherished health care overhaul and forcing construction on a
proposed oil pipeline. The top House Democrat predicted her party would uphold
both Obama vetoes.
On the new Congress' third day of work, a Senate committee
approved a measure dismantling Obama's ability to block the Keystone XL oil
pipeline, which has become a flashpoint pitting the GOP's jobs agenda against
Democrats' environmental concerns. The Senate planned to begin debate next week
and passage there seemed likely, while the House was poised to approve its
version Friday (Jan 9, 2015).
Across the Capitol, the House approved legislation narrowing
the definition of full-time workers who must be offered employer-provided
health care from those working 30 hours weekly to a 40-hour minimum. The vote
was a mostly party-line 252-172 — short of the 290 needed, assuming all members
voted, for the two-thirds majority required to override a veto.
On both bills, GOP leaders would face uphill fights
mustering the two-thirds House and Senate majorities needed to override Obama
vetoes. But both measures had some support from Democrats, and Republicans
could use them to portray themselves as championing bipartisan legislation, only
to be thwarted by Obama and his Democratic congressional allies
So, in summary: GOP to force vetoes to show the folks back home (GOP base) that: "See, we kept our promise..." but I ask: For whom and now what? Stay tuned – it will get worse and nastier – bet on it.
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