Given how much the right wing has consistently lied its fool ass off for my entire life, I don't take them or their sycophants at face value when they tell me what a horrible awful horrible disaster the ACA will be, and then use bogus, skewed, incomplete and/or sloppy statistics to "prove" that.
I just wonder what alternate universe you have been inhabiting for your 'entire life' because you just described DEM tactics for the past 60 years.
EVERYTHING the DEMs have done is based on a lie. They are truthful about NOTHING. The latest lie is Obamacare - remember the "if you like your Doctor you can keep him" and the "Costs will go down" descriptions of the ACA, just to mention a few?
WHICH party was more TRUTHFUL about the consequences of Obamacare? The conservatives predicted EXACTLY what has happened. Yet you say that for your 'entire life' the conservatives have lied to you???
ridiculous
I challenge you to produce a conservative lie. Just one will suffice to back up your stupid statement.
And you seem to be worried about a monstrous 'rule change' to prevent the Senate from steamrolling the House. Were you worried that the entire ACA is a lie engineered by the Senate?
Since the ACA is a tax, don't you agree that constitutionally all tax bills must originate in the House? Then how did the Senate get to author the ACA?? DO you care??
I'll tell you. The Senate took some House bill that was on a completely different topic - nothing about health care at all - and the Senate wrote an amendment to the House bill (so that it would have the House designation in its title) that completely deleted EVERYTHING that was in the original House bill and ADDED the ACA verbage to it.
How's that for playing fast and loose with the 'rules' ??? DO you approve of that?? Not only that, they did a bunch of backroom maneuvering that prevented the amended bill from being subject to a filibuster, and passed it in the dark of night with a simple majority - not ONE GOP vote for it. NEVER has a bill of such impact on the US economy been passed in such a back room fashion - NEVER IN HISTORY.
This bill was NOT passed with honest debate. It was passed in the House without the vote of a single GOP. It was passed without anyone 'knowing what was in it.' Nancy Pelosi made the single most stupid utterance of any politician in history - "we have to pass it to see what is in it." Well, they passed it and now we know what's in it.
Except the GOP DID know what was in it and tried to educate everyone, but the PRESIDENT lied his donkey off telling everyone numerous LIES about it. The GOP was right - the DEMs were wrong.
THEN, to get it past the SCOTUS, the President's men lied again. After campaigning that it was NOT a tax (because not even the DEMs would have supported it if it were called a tax) they proceeded to argue that it WAS constitutionals because of the 'taxing authority' of the congress. The CJ of the SCOTUS said that it was 'bad law' but didn't want to get into political realms and since he could see that it was a tax he voted for it being constitutional - to the ridicule of every constitutional authority everywhere.
SO - you have a BAD LAW - passed based on LIEs - by unethical means in the Senate - and then when it came time to IMPLEMENT it, the POTUS doesn't want to enact the law he signed.
The POTUS is enacting an entirely DIFFERENT law than what was passed - he is picking and choosing which provisions to implement and which to void. Additionally he is giving WAIVERS to the law for all his supporters - the big unions and the big corporations.
SO - the House is not stopping the bad law that was passed. They are tying to stop an UNCONSTITUTIONAL variation of the bad law by refusing to FUND it.
The HOUSE can fund any part of the government they want - and they have voted to fund EVERYTHING except for the bad law as unconstitutionally altered by the POTUS.
This entire CR thing is NOT the way appropriations are SUPPOSED to work - the House is SUPPOSED to pass funding for items piecemeal, just as they are doing.
The House in ENTIRELY within its constitutional rights to tend to the purse of the nation. That is their PRIME responsibility.
It is the POTUS who wants the 'shutdown' - and he wants it to use as a political weapon in the next election.
This POS Obama doesn't give a whit about the harm he is doing to the nation - all that matters to him is being able to get a message thru the media that the GOP is causing all the harm.
The POTUS and the DEMs are LYING - the conservatives are telling the TRUTH.
So - you are about as wrong as you can be