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American Exemptionalism

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Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, has demanded a floor vote on his bill to end an exemption that members of Congress and their staffs are slated to get that will make them the only participants in the new Obamacare exchanges to receive generous subsidies from their employer to pay for their health insurance. Angry Senate Democrats have drafted legislation that dredges up a 2007 prostitution scandal involving Vitter. The confrontation is a perfect illustration of just how wide the gulf in attitudes is between the Beltway and the rest of the country — and how viciously Capitol Hill denizens will fight for their privileges.

One law for thee, and one law for me.

The article goes on to read that the proponents of these exemptions justify them because without them the Beltway will suffer an unimaginable "brain-drain". The "best and the brightest" will flee Washington in mass exodus.

Yeah, because money, power, and prestige no longer are suitable enticements....
 
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One law for thee, and one law for me.

The article goes on to read that the proponents of these exemptions justify them because without them the Beltway will suffer an unimaginable "brain-drain". The "best and the brightest" will flee Washington in mass exodus.

Yeah, because money, power, and prestige no longer are suitable enticements....

This actually says a lot about obamacare, congress bipartisanship and their priorities.

nobody trusts obamacare to do what it is supposed to do (cut costs, insure cheaply and provide better care), not even the people who passed the god damn bill. So tell me, why is this thing still being allowed to be implemented?

Oh, and it's funny how Congress, who managed to barely pass 200 bills into law since it came into function, and most of those to rename post offices to honor heroes in war, quickly managed to come to a consensus on how to make their lives better.

I have a proposal. Everybody in the USA should be able to get the same kind of insurance members of Congress have.
 
This actually says a lot about obamacare, congress bipartisanship and their priorities.

nobody trusts obamacare to do what it is supposed to do (cut costs, insure cheaply and provide better care), not even the people who passed the god damn bill. So tell me, why is this thing still being allowed to be implemented?

Oh, and it's funny how Congress, who managed to barely pass 200 bills into law since it came into function, and most of those to rename post offices to honor heroes in war, quickly managed to come to a consensus on how to make their lives better.

I have a proposal. Everybody in the USA should be able to get the same kind of insurance members of Congress have.

I am at a loss as to how they can justify this to their constituents. Then again, I seen on another political forum people defending rather aggressively for the Congressional privilege to insider trade. So...when you have that kind of mentality running around, who can we really blame?
 
This actually says a lot about America.
 
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One law for thee, and one law for me.

The article goes on to read that the proponents of these exemptions justify them because without them the Beltway will suffer an unimaginable "brain-drain". The "best and the brightest" will flee Washington in mass exodus.

Yeah, because money, power, and prestige no longer are suitable enticements....

OMG! A brain drain from Washington DC! That's like pulling the plug on an empty bathtub.
 
OMG! A brain drain from Washington DC! That's like pulling the plug on an empty bathtub.

Agreed - this will simultaneously lower the average intelligence of Washington D.C. and whatever cities these brains, drain to
 
Drain the tub? Hell flush the toilet, these people in DC believe their own propaganda
 
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One law for thee, and one law for me.

The article goes on to read that the proponents of these exemptions justify them because without them the Beltway will suffer an unimaginable "brain-drain". The "best and the brightest" will flee Washington in mass exodus.

Yeah, because money, power, and prestige no longer are suitable enticements....

Congress isnt exempt from ACA...
"PolitiFact first examined the claim that members of Congress are exempt from the provisions of the Affordable Care Act in 2009, when the legislation was still under consideration in Congress.

We rated it False. That claim was based on the assumption that the health care reform plan would have sent everyone -- except Congress -- into a new "public option" federal insurance plan. It would not have.

In fact, the law as passed did not even include a public option -- and Section 1213 of it requires members of Congress and congressional staff, starting in 2014, to buy health plans created by the health care act or offered through the state exchanges the act establishes.

Political scientist Norman Ornstein, a long-time observer of Congress and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, debunked the claim of congressional exemption in a piece he wrote for the Washington newspaper Roll Call.

"On the assertion that Members of Congress are exempt from the provisions of the Affordable Care Act: also false," he wrote. "Members of Congress are subject under the health care reform law to the same mandate that others are to purchase insurance, and their plans must have the same minimum standards of benefits that other insurance plans will have to meet. Members of Congress currently have not a gold-plated free plan but the same insurance options that most other federal employees have, and they do not have it provided for free. They have a generous subsidy for their premiums, but no more generous (and compared to many businesses or professions less generous) than standard employer-provided subsidies throughout the country."
PolitiFact Ohio | Did members of Congress exempt themselves from complying with the health care reform laws?


"Congress isn’t “exempt” from the law. It wasn’t exempt back in 2010, when we first debunked such a claim; nor were lawmakers exempt in May when the bogus bit surfaced again. Three months later, they’re still not exempt. In fact, as we’ve said before, lawmakers and their staffs face additional requirements that other Americans don’t. And the “special subsidy” to which Pittenger refers is simply a premium contribution that his employer, the federal government, has long made to the health insurance policies of its workers.
The Affordable Care Act says that starting in 2014, members of Congress and their staffs can no longer get their health insurance through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, as they have in the past. Instead, these federal employees will have to get insurance through the exchanges set up by the Affordable Care Act. Other Americans with work-based insurance aren’t subject to such a requirement. They can continue to get health insurance through their employers. Other federal workers, too, can continue to select health insurance plans through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. But not Congress."
No ‘Special Subsidy’ for Congress

Congress isnt exempt from the ACA its just another scare tactic the far right is trying to use against it.
 
This actually says a lot about America.

Actually, in my view, this says nothing about America that can't be said about every other political elite in every other country under any type of political system. The one thing that might be unique, is the attempt by Democrats to bring past sexual exploits into the mix because nowhere else in the world, other than America, are people so anally obsessed with sex. It's also hypocritical on the part of Democrats who bleated endlessly about Bill Clinton's transgressions being "only sex".
 
Degrading the office and promoting immoral behavior, that's the Liberal Demonrat way!
 
And the award for Idiotic Non-Sequitur of the Day goes to.......................

And the award for idiotic sexual reference while claiming others are obsessed with sex goes to...
 
I was referring to the contents of the OP.


Those big-tit, ass shaking, anal, dickhead, ***** Americans are obsessed with sex!


*snicker*
 
Congress isnt exempt from the ACA its just another scare tactic the far right is trying to use against it.

and that's why a Dem is trying to change it? :lamo

OMG!!!

That far right wing whackjob, the HuffPost also is covering this...

Obamacare Policy Subsidizing Congressional Coverage Was Chuck Grassley's Idea

What I find most memorable is that the HuffPost says no exemption was made too, and then goes on to tell how they ARE being subsidized....

"Well, err....technically they're not, but er.................actually they are..."

:lamo
 
and that's why a Dem is trying to change it? :lamo

OMG!!!

That far right wing whackjob, the HuffPost also is covering this...

Obamacare Policy Subsidizing Congressional Coverage Was Chuck Grassley's Idea

What I find most memorable is that the HuffPost says no exemption was made too, and then goes on to tell how they ARE being subsidized....

"Well, err....technically they're not, but er.................actually they are..."

:lamo

Uhh they are not subsidized nor are they exempt from the ACA. You can tell a lie long enough and then eventually it will become truth.
 
Try not to embarrass yourself any further - have a good day.

You used the adjective "anally" while claiming that others are obsessed with sex. That's funny!
 
Socialist's will fail like they've always failed. It's intrinsic to their ideology...

How does anything what i said have anything to do with socialism? Or are we just gonna try to change subjects when bull**** like this gets called for what it is?
 
How does anything what i said have anything to do with socialism? Or are we just gonna try to change subjects when bull**** like this gets called for what it is?

I changed the subject or rather broadened it because the other conversation we were having was over. Word games mean nothing, blatant out and out refusals and denials mean nothing, trying to redefine what "is" is means nothing. Pouring syrup on shyte don't make it pancakes I don't care how many gallons the Unthinking Left have in storage.
 
I changed the subject or rather broadened it because the other conversation we were having was over. Word games mean nothing, blatant out and out refusals and denials mean nothing, trying to redefine what "is" is means nothing. Pouring syrup on shyte don't make it pancakes I don't care how many gallons the Unthinking Left have in storage.
So what your article claims that congress is exempt from the ACA i proved they were not instead we are just gonna talk about pancakes and socialism?
 
So what your article claims that congress is exempt from the ACA i proved they were not instead we are just gonna talk about pancakes and socialism?

PolitiFact Bias

Daily Kos: In continuing war on its own credibility, PolitiFact calls accurate Obama jobs statement 'half true'

Blog: PolitiFact's Faux Fact Checking

and there's about 133,997 other sites that bring your sources credibility into question

https://www.google.com/#q=how+accurate+is+politifact

So, no, you haven't done anything.
 
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