Obamacare: A 2016 Gift To The GOP
Excerpts from this article by Phyllis Schlafly: President Obama’s eighth veto of his presidency came last Friday, when he quietly nixed legislation passed by Congress to repeal major portions of Obamacare. By allowing the crippled health care law to remain on life support for all of 2016, Obama and the Democrats handed Republicans a winning campaign issue for retaking the White House in 2017... Bills to repeal Obamacare had previously passed the House, but this was the first time a major repeal bill has made it through the Senate using the process of “reconciliation” which requires a 51-vote simple majority. That’s what made it possible to send the bill to the president’s desk, but as House Speaker Paul Ryan admitted, “It’s no surprise that someone named Obama vetoed a bill repealing Obamacare.”... Americans are understandably impatient at the slow progress toward repeal of this monstrosity, but our Constitution generally requires at least two elections to intervene befor...