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The Spectacle Blog
The House of Representatives this afternoon voted down an attempt by Republicans to repeal the ObamaCare mandate that forces individuals to purchase government-approved insurance policies. It failed by a 230 to 187 margin.
Rep. Dave Camp introduced the repeal measure as part of a motion to recommit on a small business bill. It attracted the support 21 Democrats, while Joseph Cao was the lone Republican to vote against the measure. Fifteen representatives did not vote. Full roll call is available here.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 6.15.10 @ 6:34PM
Philip,
Thanks for the heads up. That means I'm overall pretty proud of the Rs tonight.
November is rolling around.
ggoblue| 6.15.10 @ 7:12PM
20 weeks from today tex....tic tic tic....
Jack Thomas | 6.15.10 @ 7:32PM
No! No! No! Bad Congress! We don't want to repeal the individual mandate. That would leave the rest of the Act intact. Since the novices that wrote Obamacare failed to include a severability clause, if only one part of Obamacare is found to be un-Constitutional, then the entire law is thrown out as un-Constitutional. We want the individual mandate to remain through the Constitutional challenge, then if that fails, vote to repeal it.
martin j smith| 6.16.10 @ 7:51AM
Jack Thomas, in general I can see your point. But, once to get rid of the individual mandates the whole things falls apart. However in the end twothings--first it was a good step to set the stage for November and second--and most important--WIN THE ELECTION--THEN REPEAL111111111111
Sheila| 6.16.10 @ 1:42PM
Gee, Joseph Cao was the lone republican to vote against it - but all these self-proclaimed solid conservatives at American Spectator have exhorted us to support him, he needs it, he's a genuine republican and the best we're going to get in his district, yada yada yada. Sorry guys, I don't buy what you're selling. Who's going to be your next true-blue ethnic conservative to prove your anti-racist bona fides? Decline and fall.
DAC| 6.16.10 @ 2:35PM
Sheila, have at least the intellectual honesty to just come out and say what you're thinking, instead of ham-handedly implying it in an incoherent post: all Republicans are presumtively racists, and the only reason conservatives support non-white Republican candidates is to try to prove (to enlightened wonderful people like you, I guess) that they aren't racists.
Or am I missing something? Please, since you're so much better than all of us, educate us on how to not be racist. Start with the wonderful example of the Democrat party, then its leaders (including the current post-racist, violently racist "president"), then those nonwhites in the Dem party whose entire lives are based on nothing but racism (see, e.g., Al Sharpton, one of Dear Leader's close advisors), then the unions (which began largely to exclude freed slaves from industrial jobs), then the abortion industry (a huge proportion of whose clients are nonwhite). Go on, clearly we are all in desperate need of being sensitized and re-educated. Right?
When you come to re-educate me, though, I suggest you bring appropriate firepower, or I'll resod my front lawn with your guts.
grumpygresh| 6.16.10 @ 3:13PM
Good point by Jack. However, perhaps the Republicans knew that they would easily win this game of chicken. Interestingly, without mandates, private insurance would collapse even faster because people could pay for insurance only after they became sick and then drop it without consequences when they recovered. The Dims recognize that they must keep the mandate because there would essentially be no funding mechanism for health insurance whether private of the de facto public option aka the exchanges.
Now, the Republicans clearly have the Dims on record forcing individuals to purchase insurance and the court challenges will continue.
Sheila| 6.16.10 @ 4:42PM
DAC - I really don't like playing pattycake in comment threads, but you've totally misread me. My point is that most of the columnists here, just like those at similar sites such as American Thinker, take great pains to prove their racial bona fides. I'm saying they shouldn't waste their time. Playing the label game should be left to the leftists - those enlightened ones you think I'm claiming to be one of. Not at all - I'm frequently called a racist in comment threads, and my point is I DON'T GIVE A DAMN. If you do worry about the labels libs fling around, you're a capital "r" Republican, not a conservative. What ethnic flavor of the day is it lately for the Republicans? Jindal? Cao? Nikita Haley? I'm saying they're not supporting these people because they're such good conservative politicians; they're supporting them because they're ethnots claiming to be conservatives - and I won't play that game. These columnists lack the guts to be genuine conservatives and must push their own, right-side brand of multiculturalism down everyone's throats. I've had enough enrichment from both sides, and I'll call it as I see it.
Decline and fall.