WND: Democrats in Congress have been in lockstep on almost every subject lately, adopting a party-line position and never relinquishing one inch of its ground. But none so definitively as on Obamacare, where they have, as a bloc, refused every effort made by President Trump and the GOP majority to take the failing health-care mandates’ worst problems and fix them.
Maybe it’s because those problems are really a worry for their constituents, not them.
At least, that’s the suggestion from a series of social media postings by Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut.
He responded to the president’s tweet over the weekend that perhaps government exemptions for Congress and subsidies for their staff members, under the Obamacare mandates, might go away.
Murphy called it a personal threat. more here
Well, of course it’s a personal threat, Murph. Aren’t you personally one of only a few dozen persons obstinately rejecting efforts to change the awful system you personally don’t want your own person and your staff to be part of?
I feel that each representative and senator, sent to congress based on LIES, is a personal threat to their constituents, PARTICULARLY, the voters of America, who put them in their Robber Barron positions.
Last I heard there were over 1300 “exemptions” and/or subsidies from the ObolaCare abomination.
Pres. Trump should get rid of ALL of them, at a stroke.
Then let the caterwauling and gnashing of teeth begin.
But isn’t it kind of curious that the intimation of being denied the labor (income, money) of others is somehow a “personal threat,” but the expropriation of the same, by implied force (taxation), has no weight whatsoever?
Quite a lucid peek into the mind of a greedy amoral maggot.
izlamo delenda est …
Trump should have ended their subsidies his first week in office. Why shouldn’t they be first to live under what they want the rest of us to be beholden to? I wish he’d just do it instead of threaten it.
They don’t feel our pain. These clowns make more salary than the average citizen. They all retire as millionaires and they BELIEVE they need subsidized 0bamacare insurance!
BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS !!!
THIS IS YOUR MESS DEMOCRATS. YOU FIX IT.
Make good on your word Trump, JUST DO IT! Take them down like they’ve taken us down. Screw them front and back!
🔑 Don’t cancel subsidies for all of Congress 🔑
Just for the members who voted to keep Obamacare. They seem to like it enough to try it for themselves.
Bullshit, cancel it for EVERYONE that has an exemption!
If it’s ‘affordable healthcare’, why is he crying?
Do it NOW!
Has everyone signed the petition? If not, get on it.
The parasite is sucking the lifeblood from tax payers. He and the rest of congress and staff members act like they are royalty and treat citizens like subjects. Trump should eliminate every perk they have if he can legally do so.
How would making members of Congress have the same type of medical coverage they forced on the American people make members of Congress lose their insurance coverage?
He wouldn’t be saying what (true) conservatives have been saying all along, would it?
@anon: “Why shouldn’t they be first to live under what they want the rest of us to be beholden to?”
Exactly.
I tried to sign petition but got a Server not Found error.
If he did it immediately now or on his first day in office, he couldn’t hold the threat over their heads the way he is.
I agree that non of these people should have a subsidy, but it is useful to use as a threat before abolishing it.
Effe everyone of them . Mandate that they get the copper plan ! $6000.00 deductible for each family member that starts over every January. Make sure that they have to deal with the dumbass Obama employees that tell you you have to cancel your policy every December for the rest of your life. Make sure that they deduct the Obama care fee out of their checking account. Have the insurance company deny any claim. Then they will have to gothru the claim appeal process and wait 3 months for a decision . Mak sure th hospitals call / harass them for payment and ruin their credit rating. Maybe then this wealth transfer
Program will be killed.
The president neither wrote nor signed the bill into law. The Supreme Court said it was legal, so pay your fair share.