House Votes: ObamaKare Repealed

In a 245 to 189 vote, the House voted to repeal ObamaKare on Wednesday.

Forty-six percent of Americans think the health care law is likely to cut jobs, 54 percent think it will hurt the economy, and 62 percent see it as increasing the federal deficit, according to a poll conducted January 13-16 by ABC News and the Washington Post.

In the process of civilly discussing the issue, Demorat Rep Steve Cohen of Tennessee compared the Republicans' attempted repeal of ObakaKare to the Holocaust:

They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels," Cohen said. "You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That's the same kind of thing. The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it--believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover," Cohen said.

Inconveniently, he is wrong; dead wrong. And apparently "incivility" only occurs on the GOP side of the aisle. It was pointed out many months ago that, if ObakaKare was so critically important, why was there, at minimum, a four year lag before major installment? Many people can certainly die in the intervening years. But that wasn't quite so critical. Things are critical when the Demorats say they are critical -- like now -- and not when they say so.

One bright light: the Republicans actually, for once, did what they promised during the elections, with their unanimous vote; not one GOP dissent. Symbolic or not, this is one step in the proper direction. And it shows to the Demorats that numbers mean something and, further, that some Demorats aren't above jumping ship (three voted for the repeal: Mike Ross of Arkansas, Mike McIntyre of North Carolina and Dan Boren of Oklahoma).

The other very inconvenient fact is that twenty-six states are legally challenging ObakaKare -- something not customarily printed or spoken in the DEM/MSM, oddly enough.

Harry Reid is going to avoid, like the plague, putting the repeal up for vote in the Senate because he doesn't want to put His Minions on Front Street as voting against the repeal -- publicly. It is said he will; in truth he'll do his best for avoidance.

This is Step One.

There are o-so-many steps to go.

Do not release pressure on your local GOP politicians! Pressure ON.

BZ