Going over the Cliff

[CattyNebulart]

blackaeronaut wrote:You know, guys... I can respect the fact that the GOP in the House has submitted several revisions of the budget... But the one problem they keep running into time and time again is that they keep trying to screw around with the ACA's funding. I kid thee not, it's like some kid sticking their hand into the cookie jar only to get their hand thwacked by an uncannily observant mother.

Now, if the House can submit a budget that leaves the ACA's funding intact... Well, maybe we'll get somewhere.

And please don't argue that the Democrats aren't willing to compromise. They're willing to cut deals... just not on the ACA's funding.

Oh... and if the ACA is so horribly flawed... then for crying out loud, fix it instead of trying to kill it. You might actually get somewhere with that instead!

the thing is they have, all they asked with the last CR before the shutdown was a delay in implimentation, the same one year delay that Obama by fiat gave to employers

And the problem wih the ACA is that it is SO horribly flawed that it cant be fixed, it was built to fail in the first place and force everyone into the single payer system that the democrats wanted in the first place, I'll see if i cant over the weekend find the video clip where in the 08 election run up Obama promised a single payer system
  

Single Payer would be a lot better yes... but that is a seperate problem, this is a 6 week CR, caving in to republican demands every 6 weeks.... it would make elections meaningless. The democrats can't compromise on this unless they want to adopt the teaparty platform lock stock and barrel. If the president doesn't veto any dismantling of the ACA he becomes just a figurehead, proven that he will cave... the republicans have neatly manoeuvred the democrats in a corner where they must fight. The republicans could back down but they would lose face, and likely their job.
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