'John Roberts contorted himself like a pretzel to find this stupid law constitutional'
Bob Unruh, WND — Democrats must finally have read the bill.And they don’t like it.
Talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh said today, “Now all of a sudden it’s 18 senators and some of these doctors and hospitals and medical groups who all of a sudden now, after it’s passed, and after John Roberts contorted himself like a pretzel to find this stupid law constitution, now they want out of it.”
Limbaugh was talking about efforts by more than a dozen Democratic senators who all voted for Obamacare, but now are lobbying against its “job-killing tax” regarding medical devices.
It was former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of course, who told Americans that Congress would have to pass the Obamacare bill so that everyone could find out what was in it.
Now the Democrats are starting to find out.
“Gutless wonders, every d— one of them. Where were they knowing full well where this was going? Where were they before this thing passed. … Where was their courage to stand up and oppose it? They knew full well this day was coming. These people didi not have to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Everybody knew what was it it.
“They’re worthless now. But, now, here’s the thing. I don’t know whether they’re gonna be able to succeed. There’s 18 senators who want to defund this. Because all politics is local in this case, and now it’s gonna hurt their constituents, and now that might mean it’s gonna hurt their reelection, and it’s gonna hurt their state economies.”
According to a report in the Daily Caller, the Democrats’ urgent concern now is a medical device tax of 2.3 percent.
The members of Congress sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying they wanted to delay the start of the tax, because, “The medical technology industry directly employs over 400,000 people in the United States and is responsible for a total of two million high-skilled manufacturing jobs … With this year quickly drawing to a close, the medical device industry has received little guidance about how to comply with the tax – causing significant uncertainty and confusion…”
[...] Townhall reported that among the Obamacare critics now are those who were the biggest supporters two years ago.
“Senators like Al Franken, D-Minn.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Patty Murray, D-Wash.; John Kerry, D-Mass.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; and others – all of whom voted in favor of the law – are aiming to delay or outright repeal parts of Obamacare,” the report said.
There already has been discussion, as Limbaugh noted, of the elimination of the “death panel” that is to limit medical services.
Combining that – a virtual unlimited top on health care – with a reduction in the funding for Obamacare would leave the American taxpayer on the hook for Obama’s entire agenda, critics challenged. » Read More
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Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially.