Seth McLaughlin,Washington Times
House Republicans on Wednesday scored their first victory in their long-shot bid to scrap President Obama’s health care overhaul,delivering a repeal bill to the Senate and a stiff rebuke of White House policy that will help shape the political landscape over the weeks,months and years to come.
In one of its first acts since winning the House,the new Republican majority passed the repeal bill on a mostly party-line vote,fulfilling a campaign promise many of them made to voters last year,but now the effort moves on to the more substantive task of writing an alternative to the law Mr. Obama signed in March.
“Repeal means paving the way for better solutions that will lower the costs without destroying jobs or bankrupting our government,”House Speaker John A. Boehner,Ohio Republican,said. “Let’s work together to put into place reforms that lower the costs without destroying jobs or bankrupting our government. Let’s challenge ourselves to do better.”
The vote was 245 to 189,with three Democrats joining all Republicans. The Democrats who voted for repeal were Reps. Mike Ross of Arkansas,Dan Boren of Oklahoma and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina.
While the outcome of the vote basically has been known for weeks,the road forward is unclear.
Obama Care:Sure the House voted in favor of repealing Obama Care,but I doubt the Senate will,&even if they do Obama will Veto it. The House just has to make sure it doesn't get funded. Anyone want to make any bets on that??? What they really need to concentrate on is getting the Illegal out of the Presidents Office. Again,does anyone want to make any bets ???
As for a Health care bill where does he get taxing people when they sell their homes starting in 2013 health care? What else has he got hiding in that thing? Aside from murder that is….