Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption. “Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.” Repeal for me but not for thee. Rats jumping off the ship they sank.
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It all started with that goofy movie 'Born Yesterday' The lady in that movie (who was fairly uneducated) read Toqueville's Democracy in America, not realizing that the person that told her about it hadn't read it, either. One thing lead to another, and before I knew it, I was reading the Federalist Papers. Hamilton's pretty dry, but Madison was actually a pretty good writer. Glenn Beck penned an updated version called "The Original Argument". It's a pretty good read, and not as dry as the original. Oddly enough, I've saved 'Common Sense' for last...
Hamilton, Madison and Jay EXPLICITLY warned against this in the Federalist Papers. If lawmakers exempt themselves from the laws they pass, it is the very definition of Tyranny. Sic Semper Tyranus!
The Federalist papers? What are those? Some archaic scribblings by a bunch of privileged old white dudes?
Not that many people in our country even know enough about them to form the last sentence. It's a darned shame that our children have no clue. Wait - now that I think about it, I was never taught about the Federalist Papers in school either... It's a darned shame that our children's PARENTS have no clue either.
OH NO!!!!! You votes for this crap/ Congress most of all has to live with it and under it. No special exemptions no cadillac plan. Same as every other American you assholes!
this is just a reward for "services rendered" for the Senate Aides. I have a pretty good idea what is number one on the list of their job description. Why dont they call them prostitutes rather than Senate Aides?
Looks like George Orwell was right again, some animals are more equal then others.
No wonder they are in such a hurry to pass gun control, it's time to line the whole bunch of them up against a wall.
What is good for thee is not good for me...
AGAIN, Socialism is for the people, NOT the socialist.
Fact of the matter is this, nobody named Obama will ever be on Obamacare.
But if it is ever possible to dump every gov't official, & I mean EVERY single one of them into the general health care exchanges, it must be done. I don't care how, it needs to happen.
Congress already has numerous perks and privleges, exempting themselves from Obama Care will be a big mistake, the American people will rise up. It's time to teach these rotten scumbags a civics lesson.
Hard to believe they hadn't thought of this already and buried the standard Congressional exemption somewhere in the bowel of the leviathan. Maybe they just forgot.
I don't know which of those two faces I despise more.