Republicans vote to repeal Medicare cuts they voted for and are campaigning against
By Jonathan Bernstein, WashPost
That headline is not an exaggeration or a parody.
Just now, the House voted, one more time, to repeal the Affordable Care Act, by an almost straight-line party vote of 244-185, with every Republican voting for “full repeal” and all but five Democrats voting against it.
This vote came after a parade of Republicans went to the House floor today bashing Barack Obama, the Democrats, and the health law for cutting $500 billion from Medicare — one of their central attacks on Dems for two straight cycles now — despite supporting those very same cuts in their own budget, the Paul Ryan plan.
On top of this, they repeatedly claimed today — still! — that they intend to repeal and replace the bill, despite the continued absence of any replace bill, or even hearings to develop a replace bill, two years after campaigning on their “replace” pledge.
(More here.)
That headline is not an exaggeration or a parody.
Just now, the House voted, one more time, to repeal the Affordable Care Act, by an almost straight-line party vote of 244-185, with every Republican voting for “full repeal” and all but five Democrats voting against it.
This vote came after a parade of Republicans went to the House floor today bashing Barack Obama, the Democrats, and the health law for cutting $500 billion from Medicare — one of their central attacks on Dems for two straight cycles now — despite supporting those very same cuts in their own budget, the Paul Ryan plan.
On top of this, they repeatedly claimed today — still! — that they intend to repeal and replace the bill, despite the continued absence of any replace bill, or even hearings to develop a replace bill, two years after campaigning on their “replace” pledge.
(More here.)
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