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As a thumb in the eye of Nancy Pelosi, North Carolina’s Heath Shuler, a Blue Dog Democratic, will put forth his name today for House Speaker. It’s a symbolic gesture (some would say political ploy) that reinforces his stance as a maverick.
On substantial legislation, though, he’s willing to buck his party so far and no farther. Shuler voted against ObamaCare, but asked if he would support GOP-backed efforts in the first days of the 112th Congress to repeal Obama’s reforms, Shuler indicated he would not:
[T]here are some very good things in this bill that have already become law: Parents can keep their kids on their insurance until they’re 26, it’s helping to close the donut hole for seniors, and children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied access to coverage. I think it is not just wrong, but immoral to take those things away. Let’s put politics aside and start working together to do what is right for America.
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Eric Cartman| 1.5.11 @ 10:44AM
WHAAAAA????? You mean most of the Stupid Party didn't cross over and vote for him to prove to the likes of E. J. Dionne and the Morning Joe Show they aren't being partisan and labelers? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I tell you.
Eddie| 1.5.11 @ 11:26AM
Same type Congressman as he was as a quarterback at Tennessee....LOUSY!!!
dc| 1.5.11 @ 12:35PM
What's immoral is to treat Mr. Shuler as anything other than an airheaded empty suit who channels the policy preferences of his rich hippie Asheville NC constituents.
The government has no moral right to take the money I earn and piss it away on adults who can and should take care of themselves and be able to buy insurance in a private marketplace. If they can't, fine, put a lowest-common-denominator risk pool in place, that would be fine. Beyond that, please, please just get the F out of the way of productive, self-sufficient people. I know that blowdried totalitarians like Shuler can't begin to understand this (just as Shuler couldn't read a zone defense either at UT or with the Snyderskins), but the laws of economics cannot be repealed, and the iron laws of bureaucracies are even less flexible. Because he is incapable of understanding the former and in bed with those who have a vested interest in expanding the power and scope of the latter, looking to this moron for support of anything good, right, or moral in any sense is a fool's errand. Boehner et al would do well to remember that.
Callawyn| 1.5.11 @ 1:01PM
What an imbecile. What Shuler doesn't understand is that those 'good things' have to be PAID FOR. Worse, they're not optional, they are now federal mandates. So, you have to have them in your policy whether you want them or not and you have to PAY FOR THEM.
EVERY policy my company provides for our employees became more expensive last fall as the first PPACA mandates took effect. They became more expensive again as of Jan 1 as more mandates took effect.
We're not even considering adding any new employees until this whole Obamacare issue shakes out, we have no idea how much it will end up costing us. Not only are we not expanding, we are downsizing our workforce through attrition.