House Republicans Pass 40th Obamacare Repeal Bill

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House Republicans passed their 40th bill to repeal or dismantle Obamacare on Friday before heading home for a month-long recess.

The mostly party-line vote was 232-185.

The “Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013,” sponsored by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from implementing “any provisions of or amendments made by” the Affordable Care Act.

The legislation, dead on arrival in the Senate, is part of the GOP’s ongoing quest to rile up their conservative base over Obamacare, this time by exploiting recent wrongdoing by the IRS.

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1 freetoken  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:37:41pm

Focused like a laser.

2 Charles Johnson  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:38:03pm

I’m promoting this just because I’d like to say: these people are absolutely abysmal, contemptible idiots.

3 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:39:09pm

Please tell me I don’t have to use the “insanity” quote again.

You’d think “fiscal conservatives” would want to stop paying out all those salaries and perks to idiots like these Rs, though.

4 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:40:33pm

They had to go with this because all the the rest of the GOP policies are so toxic, they can’t even get their own party to support them.

5 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:40:39pm

Do I dare ask how much money these people have wasted by going through this stupid vote FORTY TIMES??

6 Ian G.  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:41:30pm
The legislation, dead on arrival in the Senate, is part of the GOP’s ongoing quest to rile up their conservative base over Obamacare

Da Fuq? These people aren’t already riled up over it? They think it’s worse than Auschwitz, fercripesakes.

7 brennant  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:42:04pm

re: #4 Kragar

THIS. This is what we should be talking about.

8 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:42:04pm

GOP Terminology

Getting something done: Voting for something 40 times with zero chance of it moving any further

9 EPR-radar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:42:18pm

The only thing the House GOP can do is take meaningless votes on purity tests for the rabid base.

Passing anything real is clearly beyond their extremely limited capabilities.

For those sane people who still vote R in the hopes that the GOP can be turned around, may I suggest that the GOP needs to hit rock bottom by losing the votes of the moderates and sane people before there will be any chance of reform.

10 Single-handed sailor  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:42:36pm

Hey, it’s not their fault the do-nothing-senate won’t pick up the bill.

11 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:43:43pm

Beneficiaries of health care reform everywhere grateful GOP Congress leaving for August recess; Their healthcare remains safe for another month.

12 A Mom Anon  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:43:50pm

Fucking Tom Price, it figures. Used to be my rep, then they moved the district lines a tenth of a mile or so and now I get Phil Gingrey. Yay.

WTF is wrong with these morans?

13 plansbandc  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:44:18pm

Worthless human beings. The whole lot of them.

14 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:44:31pm

re: #12 A Mom Anon

Fucking Tom Price, it figures. Used to be my rep, then they moved the district lines a tenth of a mile or so and now I get Phil Gingrey. Yay.

WTF is wrong with these morans?

Do you want the long or short version?

15 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:44:32pm

re: #12 A Mom Anon

Fucking Tom Price, it figures. Used to be my rep, then they moved the district lines a tenth of a mile or so and now I get Phil Gingrey. Yay.

WTF is wrong with these morans?

Racism is a hell of a disease.

16 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:44:59pm

re: #12 A Mom Anon

Sorry to hear that.

17 Dr. Matt  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:45:46pm

And this is from the same party that wants: Texas Republicans Want Wendy Davis to Pay for Their Special Sessions

18 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:47:33pm

re: #17 Dr. Matt

What else would you expect from a bunch of skitkicking women haters?

19 A Mom Anon  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:49:55pm

Since these ass berets are going on another damned break for the whole month, I’d encourage everyone to go see their representatives, if they have the stones to show their faces in public. You can find out where they’ll be showing their darling little faces here

I’m still waiting to see when and where Rep Gingrey will rear his adorable face.

(edit) the link also has some sample questions you can ask your congress critter too.

20 erik_t  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:56:12pm

Let’s fight government fraud and waste by voting on the same DOA legislation forty times!

Seems legit.

21 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:57:12pm

TPM Editor’s Blog: You Gotta Fight, For Your Right … To The ‘N’-word!

As you can see, we have this Charlie Rangel piece up in the feature well in which he argues, colorfully, that the Tea Party is basically the same folks who fought against the Civil Rights Movements back in the day. As you can imagine, a piece like this raises a lot of hackles, brings a lot of not entirely benign people out of the woodwork and tends to turn comments sections up to 11, if not higher. Since the volume of comments made it basically unmoderatable we simply turned off comments on the thread just before it got to 4000 and about 2,000,000 on the awful-o-meter. But not everyone was pleased. What I guess I’ll call TPM Non-Reader SF chimed in as follows …

22 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:58:45pm

August 23, 2013
Scott Walker (2016) Alabama Republican Party Summer Dinner
Renaissance Hotel, Montgomery, AL Fundraiser

Too bad Walker doesn’t just move to Alabama.

23 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:59:12pm

Oh boy, you’ve got a live one Gus

24 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:00:00pm

re: #23 geoffm33

False Flag. Confirmed. FACT. //

25 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:00:13pm

OT but I can’t resist.

26 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:01:22pm

re: #25 Gus

Tell her you work for a highly secret agency but you can’t reveal it.

27 aagcobb  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:01:29pm

re: #4 Kragar

They had to go with this because all the the rest of the GOP policies are so toxic, they can’t even get their own party to support them.

This is why there is a limit to the damage they can do, as if they haven’t done enough already. Even they know that if they actually implemented the Ryan budget, most of them would be out on their asses in the next election. Obamacare is safe to attack, since its still mostly an abstraction, and even the people who have been benefiting from its provisions mostly don’t realize it. Once millions of Americans have obtained health insurance next year that they can’t afford now, it will be too popular to repeal.

28 BongCrodny  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:01:35pm

re: #23 geoffm33

@Gus_802 It is a FalseFlag, period. And you work for which branch of govt? NSA? CIA? Do tell…

The best response for that would be the classic “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”

29 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:01:38pm

Sorry to steal your thunder Gus, I was giddy (see my #23)

30 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:01:45pm

re: #25 Gus

Tell her you work for SHIELD.

31 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:02:08pm

Oh noz! The Brits are in on it too!!

32 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:02:21pm

Fro queen Derp’s timline:


33 erik_t  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:02:26pm

Pfft. Which branch of government? Honey, this is above the government. Gus works for the United Nations or Interpol or something.

34 piratedan  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:03:04pm

re: #26 Bulworth

Tell her you work for a highly secret agency but you can’t reveal it.

tell her that her security clearance doesn’t even allow you to engage with her and then suggest that she might want to clean up that credit report….

35 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:03:46pm

re: #33 erik_t

Pfft. Which branch of government? Honey, this is above the government. Gus works for the United Nations or Interpol or something.

I work for XCOM.

36 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:03:57pm

re: #29 geoffm33

Sorry to steal your thunder Gus, I was giddy (see my #23)

My mobile connx is blowing chunks. :D I’ll stay silent that way she thinks I work for the USG. Bwahahahaha!

37 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:04:12pm

re: #34 piratedan

tell her that her security clearance doesn’t even allow you to engage with her and then suggest that she might want to clean up that credit report….

Then say. “We never even had this conversation. This tweet will self destruct in 10, 9, 8, 7…”.

38 Dr. Matt  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:04:34pm
39 aagcobb  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:05:12pm

re: #34 piratedan

tell her that her security clearance doesn’t even allow you to engage with her and then suggest that she might want to clean up that credit report….

Or that if she doesn’t get her tinfoil hat on now, the black helicopters will have her position pinpointed, then she’ll be wisked off to a FEMA camp.

40 BongCrodny  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:05:55pm

re: #33 erik_t

Pfft. Which branch of government? Honey, this is above the government. Gus works for the United Nations or Interpol or something.

The Gus From U.N.C.L.E.

41 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:06:55pm

re: #40 BongCrodny

The Gus From U.N.C.L.E.

You win.

42 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:07:27pm

re: #40 BongCrodny

The Gus From U.N.C.L.E.

Better than an agent for H.A.R.M.

43 Charles Johnson  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:07:28pm
44 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:08:19pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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Obviously a false flag.
/

45 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:08:55pm

Say what you will about Tiger Woods, but the man is putting on a clinic right now. -9 through 13 and -13 for the tournament.

46 piratedan  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:09:02pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

just wait til those AQ guys find out that they’re running a fake OP…… //

47 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:11:43pm

That Alex Jones is such a wry wit. He’s decided Al Qaeda is really Al-CIA-da.

You see what he did there? Very droll.
/

48 kirkspencer  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:11:57pm

re: #26 Bulworth

Tell her you work for a highly secret agency but you can’t reveal it.

Tell her it’s a four letter agency, but due to security concerns only three are publicly known.

49 Dr. Matt  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:11:59pm

Anyone have a list of the 21 embassies and consulates that will be closed?

50 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:13:32pm

re: #49 Dr. Matt

Anyone have a list of the 21 embassies and consulates that will be closed?

Temporary Post Closures and Worldwide Travel Alert

51 Dr. Matt  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:14:55pm

re: #50 Kragar

Gracias. A friend is leaving for Turkey next week. Glad to see it’s not on the list, but I’m still concerned for her safety.

52 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:15:24pm

And now for the Tweet of the Day:

53 Mattand  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:21:58pm

re: #21 Kragar

TPM Editor’s Blog: You Gotta Fight, For Your Right … To The ‘N’-word!

I know far, far too many white people who feel that their inability to use the Ni-clang word without reprisal is tantamount to oppression/censorship.

Speaking as someone who is so white he makes a polar bear look ethnically diverse: if your life is compromised because you can’t use such a nasty vicious word with impunity, your priorities are really fucked up.

54 GeneJockey  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:23:56pm

re: #53 Mattand

I know far, far too many white people who feel that their inability to use the Ni-clang word without reprisal is tantamount to oppression/censorship.

Speaking as someone who is so white he makes a polar bear look ethnically diverse: if your life is compromised because you can’t use such a nasty vicious word with impunity, you’re priorities are really fucked up.

Tell ‘em to go ahead and use it! There’s no law against it! Of course, as they’d INSTANTLY point out when the shoe is on the other foot, that’s no guarantee of continued employment (for example).

55 GeneJockey  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:24:26pm

re: #53 Mattand

I know far, far too many white people who feel that their inability to use the Ni-clang word without reprisal is tantamount to oppression/censorship.

Speaking as someone who is so white he makes a polar bear look ethnically diverse: if your life is compromised because you can’t use such a nasty vicious word with impunity, you’re priorities are really fucked up.

White People Problems.

56 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:25:37pm

re: #55 GeneJockey

White PeopleBigot Problems.

I’m a white people and I don’t have that problem.

57 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:27:01pm

He’s on fire!

58 Ming  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:27:12pm

re: #9 EPR-radar

…
For those sane people who still vote R in the hopes that the GOP can be turned around, may I suggest that the GOP needs to hit rock bottom by losing the votes of the moderates and sane people before there will be any chance of reform.

Yes, and it’s way past time for the remaining “sane Republicans” to SPEAK UP and say that their party has lost its way. E.g. Colin Powell and Bob Dole.

I realize there’s plenty of craziness on the “other side”, e.g. Cynthia McKinney, Glenn Greenwald. (Not quite sure where Glenn fits in.) But that’s no excuse. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Sane Republicans need to speak up, now and often. Will this craziness go on until January 20, 2017, when President Obama steps down? Beyond?

59 GeneJockey  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:27:40pm

re: #56 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

I’m a white people and I don’t have that problem.

Good point.

60 Mike Lamb  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:28:12pm

So, I don’t recall Bush changing the terror colors AND making significant embassy closures. If my recollection is correct, then these situations aren’t particularly comparable are they? And we know GG wouldn’t compare the uncomparable…

61 GeneJockey  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:31:01pm

re: #58 Ming

Yes, and it’s way past time for the remaining “sane Republicans” to SPEAK UP and say that their party has lost its way. E.g. Colin Powell and Bob Dole.

RINOS!!! WHAT HAVE POWELL OR DOLE EVER DONE FOR MURRIKA?!?

I realize there’s plenty of craziness on the “other side”, e.g. Cynthia McKinney, Glenn Greenwald. But that’s no excuse. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Sane Republicans need to speak up, now and often. Will this craziness go on until January 20, 2017, when President Obama steps down? Beyond?

Most salient point being that our crazies aren’t running the party, nor are our elected officials being threatened with serious primary challenges for not being fullblown batshit crazy.

62 Charles Johnson  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:31:44pm

Ben Shapiro is trying to make me puke.

Happy 25th to Rush Limbaugh, Greatest Conservative Since Reagan

63 b.d.  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:32:21pm

OK Glenn put up or shut up, go to an American embassy in the Middle East this Sunday.

64 piratedan  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:32:29pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

which is really telling if you dwell on it at all…..

65 makeitstop  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:32:37pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro is trying to make me puke.

Happy 25th to Rush Limbaugh, Greatest Conservative Since Reagan

What is it that’s 25? His drug habit?

66 Internet Tough Guy  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:32:46pm

re: #58 Ming

GG’s written for the Cato Institute, disqualifying him from the left forever.

67 freetoken  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:33:33pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro is trying to make me puke.

Happy 25th to Rush Limbaugh, Greatest Conservative Since Reagan

AFAIK Reagan didn’t go to the Caribbean to have sex with prostitutes while high on various drugs.

Maybe Limbaugh is is actually a greater conservative than Reagan?

68 GeneJockey  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:33:41pm

re: #65 makeitstop

What is it that’s 25? His drug habit?

The combined ages of the other two participants in that Viagra-fueled threesome in Costa Rica.

69 bubba zanetti  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:33:49pm

re: #65 makeitstop

No, his 20th fifth of booze this month.

70 GeneJockey  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:34:13pm

re: #69 bubba zanetti

No, his 20th fifth of booze this month.

And it’s only the 2nd.

71 freetoken  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:34:47pm

As near as I can tell, American society is on the verge of a Brave New World breakdown.

So many delusions, so little time.

72 Romantic Heretic  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:35:02pm

re: #58 Ming

Yes, and it’s way past time for the remaining “sane Republicans” to SPEAK UP and say that their party has lost its way. E.g. Colin Powell and Bob Dole.

I realize there’s plenty of craziness on the “other side”, e.g. Cynthia McKinney, Glenn Greenwald. (Not quite sure where Glenn fits in.) But that’s no excuse. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Sane Republicans need to speak up, now and often. Will this craziness go on until January 20, 2017, when President Obama steps down? Beyond?

The difference is that, these days the insanity on the left are individuals and unorganized. On the right, it is almost the entire population, well organized and funded.

It’s going to go on until the day Hell freezes over. The sane Right’s only hope now is to start a new party. The GOP is terminal.

73 erik_t  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:36:23pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro is trying to make me puke.

Happy 25th to Rush Limbaugh, Greatest Conservative Since Reagan

The Onion weeps.

74 EPR-radar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:39:51pm

re: #73 erik_t

The Onion weeps.

Why? This seem literally true to me, if ‘great’ is interpreted as most important and influential, as opposed to any good qualities.

Rush really is the thought leader of movement conservatism, more so than any other single person in the last 20 years.

75 Dave In Austin  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:41:40pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro is trying to make me puke.

Happy 25th to Rush Limbaugh, Greatest Conservative Since Reagan

Great Comments…….

Now for a shower.

76 A Man for all Seasons  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:41:48pm

As an Aside from the news..It’s another blazing hot summer day in Oklahoma.
I hate taking Winston for a walk.. you are going to melt..
Living in a college town there are literally thousands of Girls going outside with hardly any clothes on..The shorts can’t get any shorter and the tops can’t get any..mmm. smaller? It is the only good reason to venture outside during the day…
To the beautiful young blonde girl that was jogging and almost ran into Winston today..Thank you! Your smile and laughter made my day..And may I say your choice of wardrobe in this weather was perfect? LOL
That doesn’t make me a pervert like Weiner.. Just a normal guy walking his dog..

77 BongCrodny  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:43:43pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro is trying to make me puke.

Happy 25th to Rush Limbaugh, Greatest Conservative Since Reagan

“Please understand that Rush Limbaugh is reviled less for what he says than because he shot the first shot the first shot of the New Media war over twenty years ago when he turned AM into the meeting place for America’s massive conservative underground.”

Horseshit.

78 aagcobb  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:49:36pm

re: #76 HoosierHoops

As an Aside from the news..It’s another blazing hot summer day in Oklahoma.
I hate taking Winston for a walk.. you are going to melt..
Living in a college town there are literally thousands of Girls going outside with hardly any clothes on..The shorts can’t get any shorter and the tops can’t get any..mmm. smaller? It is the only good reason to venture outside during the day…
To the beautiful young blonde girl that was jogging and almost ran into Winston today..Thank you! Your smile and laughter made my day..And may I say your choice of wardrobe in this weather was perfect? LOL
That doesn’t make me a pervert like Weiner.. Just a normal guy walking his dog..

Now if you texted her a crotch shot, that would make you a pervert like Weiner. If you can’t appreciate a barely clothed young woman, you might as well be dead.

79 Mattand  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 2:02:12pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro is trying to make me puke.

Happy 25th to Rush Limbaugh, Greatest Conservative Since Reagan

That would be the same Ronald Reagan who cut and ran in Beirut, raised taxes several times, and destroyed the deficit with unchecked military spending? Just checking.

80 lawhawk  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 2:22:06pm
81 lawhawk  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 2:23:59pm

re: #28 BongCrodny

The best response for that would be the classic “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”

Or, you could say, I can’t say, but here’s a hint. Never, ever, use the Internet again. We know… everything. /

82 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 2:28:59pm

This is what Glennlandia is flogging on his twatter acct:

NSA Collects ‘Word for Word’ Every Domestic Communication

Youtube Video

83 No Country For Old Haters  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 6:59:23pm

re: #23 geoffm33

Oh boy, you’ve got a live one Gus

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