Dr.Who
Well-Known Member
Obamacare is an abomination. We all know it was passed in the dead of night on Christmas Eve and forced through congress with more bribes to individual congressmen, procedural violations, and more partisanship than any other law I know of. More than half of the population never wanted a law shaped like this one, more than half want it repealed (no small matter to get that many Americans to agree on something in a country where too many Americans don't know who the vice president is at any time and more than half believe in ghosts), and large segments of the population as well has a number of federal judges consider it to be unconstitutional- should we really be passing laws in which there are serious questions about its constitutionality?
Anyway, GOP leaders have considered de-funding the law by simply not passing any of the procedures that need to take place for the law to operate. However, the GOP members on those committees say that doing so would be a violation of the rules that congress operates under and would be equally as bad as the procedural violations that were used to pass the law in the first place.
I agree that if our union is to continue we need our congressmen to operate according to clear rules that are fair to all. Letting the rules of the game change at the whim of the group in power is asking for abuses of the system that would render our constitution meaningless. What matter if a law is unconstitutional if we can simply ignore the procedures that would allow bad laws to fail to pass or ignore rules that funds laws that actually exist (like them or not).
Anyway, GOP leaders have considered de-funding the law by simply not passing any of the procedures that need to take place for the law to operate. However, the GOP members on those committees say that doing so would be a violation of the rules that congress operates under and would be equally as bad as the procedural violations that were used to pass the law in the first place.
I agree that if our union is to continue we need our congressmen to operate according to clear rules that are fair to all. Letting the rules of the game change at the whim of the group in power is asking for abuses of the system that would render our constitution meaningless. What matter if a law is unconstitutional if we can simply ignore the procedures that would allow bad laws to fail to pass or ignore rules that funds laws that actually exist (like them or not).
