BREAKING: House Officially Votes to Sue Barack Obama

[wise1ray]

 
The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, was duly passed by Congress in 2010, Democrat shenanigans notwithstanding.

Since that time, President Obama and his administration have made numerous rule changes and delays to various aspects of the law, all without Congress.  Many view that as a violation of the Constitution.

The GOP-led House of Representatives has determined that Obama’s unilateral changes to the healthcare law are an “abuse of power“, and a Committee decided earlier that the House should sue Obama for overreaching the boundaries of his office.

Late on Wednesday, the House held a vote to officially approve filing a lawsuit against Obama, specifically for his unilateral delay of the employer mandate of Obamacare, according to Bloomberg.

On a near-party-line vote of 225-201, lawmakers endorsed Speaker John Boehner’s plan to file a lawsuit contending the president exceeded his constitutional powers in delaying one of the law’s central requirements on his own, without a vote of Congress.

Obama and the White House have been calling this a political stunt and a waste of time and taxpayer money, something they are all too familiar with.

It is unsure if the House even has standing for the lawsuit to succeed, but there are no doubts as to the merits of their lawsuit.

Obama has made several changes and delays to this one specific provision of the law, which forces employers with more than 50 employees to provide them with healthcare coverage, or pay a fine.  Obama has delayed implementation of this vital provision of the law until after 2016, when it was originally intended to begin in 2013.

If this lawsuit does succeed, it could ultimately kill the embattled healthcare law.  Much of the funding and other aspects of the law depend greatly upon everyone being enrolled in the system.  The delays have prevented this from occurring, causing funding shortfalls and other problematic issues.

This lawsuit would also serve to rein in an out-of-control Executive branch that no longer respects the Congress, separation of powers, or the Constitution from which both Executive and Legislative authorities are derived.

[hoosier_daddy]

how litigious!  i like how the GOP is for tort reform and always bitches about too many lawsuits and how lawyers are all so bad and naughty- yet here they are, being all litigious as hell.  double standard, much?  and what is weird is that when bush signed two executive orders concerning his pet medicare part d drug plan, summarily delaying the implementation date and the punishment phase for non-compliance, THESE SAME REPUBLICAN DILDOS THAT VOTED FOR THIS LAWSUIT SEEMED QUITE HAPPY ABOUT IT WHEN BUSH DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY....


Via McClatchy:


The administration ultimately decided to use executive authority to waive some of the penalties

With pressure mounting to extend next Monday's enrollment deadline for the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, the Bush administration took another small step in that direction Tuesday, waiving penalty fees for very low-income seniors and people with disabilities who sign up late.

Officials determined that collecting the fees from poor beneficiaries would cost more than the penalties themselves.

The administration took executive action to extend deadlines

CMS guidance on the transition policy requirements for PDPs [stand-alone plans] has changed. CMS released initial guidance in March 2005. Based on that initial guidance, PDPs developed various transition policies (described in Table 1 below) and submitted them for CMS review. Generally, a 30-day minimum period was established. Following the implementation of the drug benefit, in February 2006, the Secretary of HHS extended the transition period for an additional 60 days, establishing a 90-day transition period.

And yet, despite the many parallels between the rollout of Medicare Part D and the Affordable Care Act, there was one obvious difference. Democrats were far more supportive of President George W. Bush’s effort than Republicans have been of President Barack Obama’s.

There were horrific poll numbers

Part D was even less liked: 21 percent of the public had a favorable opinion of the program in April 2005 compared to 35 percent in April 2013 for the Affordable Care Act.

[Jim]

 
Obama made fun of this lawsuit like a teenage divisive, out of context, sarcastic clown.
 
I've said it before. Obama is like an immature child. No issue is serious to Obama, no matter who or what could be affected.
 
Thus, everything is a joke, or he creates one of it.  If he can get people to laugh with him at that issue then it won't matter what becomes of that issue, who it harms, or what affect it has on the country.
 
This DIC (dick) in the Whitehouse (Divider In Chief), who unfortunately runs this country, thinks his job is a joke, thinks this country is a joke.  Thinks all issues are a joke. And knows the people who seriously listen to him are idiots.   Everything is a joke.
 
 
 
 
 

[wmdn_bs]

The suit IS nothing but an expensive time wasting joke. Why would the President or anyone with at least a double digit IQ take it seriously? It wil get thrown on the steaming pile of other frivolous lawsuits brought by ignoramouses on the right.