re: #216 Targetpractice

They need a clean vote on the repeal so they can burnish their conservative credentials for the next run in 2014. It’s got nothing to do with governance, or knowing that it has zero chance of getting passed the Senate, let alone the President’s veto. It’s wishful thinking masquerading as politics.

And it’s not like the House hasn’t been down this road before. They’ve held dozens of votes to repeal the PPACA, all of which have failed to advance past the House vote - precisely because the Senate and President wont go along.

PPACA is happening, and it’s bringing along with it the individual mandate - the very policy that conservatives thought was critical to a health care insurance makeover since it meant that individuals were responsible for their own decisions - and penalized accordingly when they opted not to join a health care exchange. But because the guy in the White House is who he is, and coopted the individual mandate idea in an attempt to woo GOPers to vote for the program, the GOP and conservatives savagely turned on the individual mandate claiming it was unconstitutional. They almost succeeded too, but for the SCt ruling.