Boehner dismisses Reid on Obamacare repeal

Boehner challenges new CBO estimate that repealing Obamacare will raise deficit
The Congressional Budget Office has just sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner saying that repealing ObamaCare would "probably increase federal budget Deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $145 billion." The CBO's reasoning is basically this: If ObamaCare is repealed, the government will not collect X in taxes, as provided for in the national Health Care law, and it will not cut Y in Medicare spending, as the law instructs, but it will also not spend a little less than t...

Baffled Vieira to Bachmann: Why Vote to Repeal Obamacare If It's Going to Get Vetoed?
NBC's Meredith Vieira seemed baffled by the concept of taking a principled stand against ObamaCare, as she repeatedly pressed Michele Bachmann, on Thursday's Today show, why Republicans would bother to vote to Repeal the Health Care bill in the House if it wasn't going to get passed in the Senate or signed by the President? Vieira's very first question to the Republican Minnesota Congresswoman set the aggressive tone for the entire interview as she demanded: "Given the fact ...

Republicans proposed repeal of health reform: Taking away from us what they keep for themselves
According to the Republican congressional leadership, one of the first actions in the 112th Congress will be House passage of a bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act. In so doing, they would take away key benefits and rights needed by America’s families, unravel a law that holds Insurance Companies much more accountable, and add a Trillion dollars to the federal Deficit over the next two decades.  Incredibly, Republican leaders plan to take away from the American People the very health be...

Forget Death Panels: Pro-Life Group Says Repeal ObamaCare Over Rationing
Never mind the controversy over the so-called death panels in the controversial ObamaCare health care law. One pro-life group says the measure should be repealed because it contains rationing elsewhere. Although the death panels — the voluntary advanced care planning that pro-life advocates have been concerned about because it could have doctors financially motivated to promote less medical care and lifesaving treatment — have occupied most of the debate, the National Right to Life C...

CBS: House Republicans 'Begin Their Assault On Health Care Reform'
On Thursday's CBS Early Show, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes derided Republican efforts to Repeal ObamaCare: "On Friday, they begin their assault on Health Care reform, with a vote to Repeal the law scheduled for next week." Cordes noted how Repeal "will hit a wall in the Senate," observing: "That legislative reality will force both sides to work together on some issues, something Speaker Boehner promised to Democrats." However, moments later she tout...

Does the House Health Care Repeal Bill Present an Opportunity For Democrats to Defend ObamaCare?
Now that House Republicans are moving to pass a bill fully repealing last year’s Health Care overhaul, the debate has turned into a Bizarro-world negative image of last year’s biggest legislative fight. Before the PPACA’s passage, Republicans were arguing that the bill shouldn’t become law because it wouldn’t reduce the Deficit and it would cut Medicare. They were also fairly effective in criticizing Democrats for focusing on an unwieldy and unpopular piece of Legislation rath

Liberal establishment MSM out with new meme: Repealing ObamaCare will COST $1 trillion!
The sycophantic suck-ups in the establishment MSM is already in full-bore attack the GOP mode. It started before they were even sworn in. They're all failures. They didn't get their agenda done yet. Blah, blah, blah. Via Instapundit yesterday: Professor JACOBSON: OPERATION DEMORALIZE. The Mainstream Media will undertake, and already has undertaken, a concerted effort to blame the Republican House for everything that goes wrong, for not living up to promises, for living u...

Will Obamacare cut our federal deficit?
The short answer is this: no government program reduces the Deficit. The only action a government can take to reduce the deficit is to cut spending or raise taxes - and often as not, raising taxes just opens the door for new spending. What the Affordable Care Act does is reduce some spending, while creating a whole bunch of new, untried subsidies for the Middle Class. But interestingly enough, the mainstream press has simply taken for granted the ‘fact’ that ObamaCare reduces Deficit...

Obamacare Quote of the Day
From Frank J.: Repealing ObamaCare would be neat. That would be like getting liberals the toy they always wanted and smashing it in front of them.I hope the GOP has the same kind of floor celebration when they pass the Repeal bill the Dems had when they passed Obamacare. And speaking of Obamacare, the new Speaker sent a letter to certain Dem Senators who were urging him not to pass a Repeal bill. It was short and to the point: Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Murray and Stabenow: Thank you for r...

Boehner Responds to Reid and Co. Demands He Not Repeal ObamaCare: The House Will Repeal It Now, Youre Welcome
(The Hill)- Incoming House Speaker John Boehner’s office (R-Ohio) pointedly vowed on Tuesday to push ahead with Legislation repealing Healthcare Reform. Boehner’s office responded to a letter sent by the Senate’s top five Democrats, vowing to block a House Bill repealing health reform, with a terse, 65-word note. Thank you for reminding us - and the American People - of the backroom deal that you struck behind closed doors with ‘Big Pharma,’ resulting in...

Health care repeal's cost: $230 billion to deficit
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's one of the promises on which House Republicans campaigned: If elected, we will Repeal Health Care reform. One problem: Rolling back the law would probably increase federal Budget Deficits by a total of about $230 billion by 2021, according to a preliminary estimate released Thursday by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Email Print Comment The long-run outlook isn't any better. A Repeal would increase federal Deficits in the decade after 2019 by aro...

Healthcare law repeal hurts deficits: CBO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An effort by Republicans in the House of Representatives to Repeal the healthcare law enacted last year would add to already huge federal Budget Deficits, the Congressional Budget Office warned on Thursday. In a preliminary estimate of Legislation the House is set to begin debating on Friday, the CBO said repealing the law that President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats enacted would "increase federal Budget deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $1...

Healthcare law repeal hurts deficits: CBO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An effort by Republicans in the House of Representatives to Repeal the healthcare law enacted last year would add to already huge federal Budget Deficits, the Congressional Budget Office warned on Thursday. In a preliminary estimate of Legislation the House is set to begin debating on Friday, the CBO said repealing the law that President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats enacted would "increase federal Budget deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $14...

Democrats Have Finally Decided to Defend That Health-Care Thing They Passed
Obama's signature on the health-care bill. Photo: Official White House photo by Chuck Kennedy Rather than sit back and allow Republicans to grandstand and make a big show of voting for a time-wasting, dead-end Repeal of the Obama health-care act, Democrats have finally grown a pair and decided to fight back. (Now that the next election is two years away, at any rate.) They're putting together a coordinated public defense against the Republicans' plan to bad-mouth Ᾱ and then chip away at ...

GOP restarts anti-health law agenda
Republicans reopened their battle against President Barack Obama’s Health Care law, using the first committee meeting of the new Congress Thursday to eviscerate the overhaul as a “job killer” and a “malignant tumor.” “We must pull it out by The Roots,” said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in his opening Testimony at a Rules Committee. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 The Rules Committee meeting marked the starting round in the GOP’s b...

House Key Vote: Support H.R. 2 & 9, Repeal and Replace ObamaCare
AFP responses to President Obama's multiple attacks on our 1.6 million Free Market Activists. Proud Socialists march at the so-called "One Nation" rally led by labor Unions as an attempt to counter Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally. On behalf of more than 1.6 million Americans for Prosperity (AFP) activists in all 50 states, I urge you to Repeal the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Reconciliation Act of 2010. These bills have substantive, procedural and constitution...

Boehner: CBO "Entitled to their Opinion"
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. (Credit: AP) House Majority Leader John Boehner said today that the Congressional Budget Office is "entitled to their own opinion" - a striking statement in light of the deference usually shown information from the nonpartisan CBO from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Boehner was objecting to a preliminary CBO fin...

Rep. Altmire: Dems who opposed health reform won't back repeal
Most Democrats in the House who opposed Healthcare Reform won't vote to Repeal it next week, one of those lawmakers said Thursday. Rep. Jason Altmire (Pa.), a Centrist Democrat who voted against Healthcare Reform last year in Congress, said he wouldn't vote for the Republican bill to Repeal the law and that he expected all but a few colleagues to follow suit. "[T]here's 13 Democrats remaining that voted against the Healthcare Bill, myself included. I've talked to a lot of them — I think we...

Dems plot attack on healthcare repeal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Senior Democratic officials in the U.S. House say they're planning their counterattack to Republicans' vote to Repeal the healthcare law next week. Democratic officials said their effort will be overseen by a rapid response operation similar to ones used by Barack Obama during his presidential bid, The New York Times reported Thursday. The rapid-response team will monitor Republican claims, send out fact checks and deploy surrogates to get their views publicized on te...

CBO: Repeal adds $230B to deficit
Republicans kicked off the first day of Congressional proceedings to overturn health reform with unwelcome news: a Congressional Budget Office estimate that Repeal would increase the Deficit by $230 billion by 2021. The nonpartisan CBO’s preliminary analysis of the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act, released Thursday morning, bolstered Democrats’ claims that overturning the health law would wreck havoc on the deficit. The CBO score on the Affordable Care Act has it decr...

GOP bends its own new House rules (Politico)
Just hours after taking control of the House, Republicans passed a sweeping set of rules promising transparency and reform. But the new majority is already showing these promises aren’t exactly set in stone. After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would Repeal the Health Care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment process for bills, amendments for the Health Care Repeal will be all but shut down. Afte...

As House GOP Launches Health Care Repeal Push, CBO Warns of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Red Ink
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: House Republicans today launched their push to Repeal the Health Care reform law in the face of stout opposition from Democrats and a warning of hundreds of billions of dollars in red ink. “We will not let go unanswered the call of the American People who rejected this massive expansion,” said Rep. Fred Upton, R-MI, at a hearing of the House Rules Committee.   Rep. John Kline, R-MN, denounced the reform law as “job-killing, flawed Legislation

Richard (RJ) Eskow: It's Simple: Reform The Filibuster, Shame The Hypocrites
There are a lot of complicated issues out there, ones that require detailed analysis and serious number-crunching. The Senate will be debating its own Filibuster procedures over the next three weeks, which will give us plenty of time to dig into the numbers. But the basic principle is surprisingly simple: it's about Democracy itself. So why aren't we calling our Senators right now and telling them to fix the Senate's ridiculous Filibuster procedures? It could be the biggest step toward real de...

Speaker Boehner readies repeal of 'Obamacare' as HHS details impact on Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - Newly elected speaker of the U.S House John A. Boehner, the third Ohioan to hold this key Constitutional office, repeatedly railed against the Affordable Care Act on the Campaign Trail as a job-killer, and vowed Republicans would make Repeal of it job one if they were to win enough seats to take back the people's chamber from Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, who prior to handing an over-sized gavel to her successor touted it as one of her party's most important achievements...

AUL in the News, 1/6/2011
The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, introduced in July by Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), would create a government-wide statutory prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion. Abortion opponents say the Legislation is needed to ensure the Healthcare Reform law can’t cover the cost of abortions. Americans United for Life President and CEO Charmaine Yoest is attending Boehner’s swearing in. “I predict that we will see changes in President Obama’s...