there's no end to their hatred: House Votes To Repeal Affordable Care Act For 56th Time.

[spanone]

The House voted 239-186 today to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the latest effort by the Republican-controlled chamber to scrap the law.

The measure also would direct panels to come up with a replacement for the healthcare law — though it doesn't provide a timeline on any new legislation or what provisions it may contain.

The House-approved measure likely will be defeated in the Senate, where the GOP has a smaller majority. President Obama has threatened to veto any legislation that rips up his signature achievement.

The Associated Press notes the House has voted more than 50 times in the past two years to repeal the law. What was different about today's vote? NPR's S.V. Date writes in our It's All Politics blog: "What makes today a milestone is that, for the first time, House Republicans plan to vote on whether to actually take health coverage away from millions of Americans who now have it."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/03/383621170/house-votes-to-repeal-affordable-care-act

[mythology]

1. Somewhere Sisyphus is laughing at the number of times they've tried to push that rock up a hill

You would think they'd realize that they aren't going to get a repeal while Obama is president and not waste their time. It's not going to build up goodwill among the conservative nut jobs because they can't get an actual repeal, it's not going to help build up goodwill among independents because it's ineffectual and shows partisan gridlock, and as the article noted, now that more of the ACA has been implemented, they are actively trying to take away health insurance rather than theoretically trying to take it away.

As Rachel Maddow used to point out, John Boehner is really just bad at his job.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. ...

[sheshe2]

3. He needs to stop wasting the taxpayers money.

They sure are single minded in their hate and stupidity.

They... got________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________nothing to replace it with, they know it. We know it. They just want to take away something that actually helps the American People. They are the party of no. No heart, no brains, no compassion and no soul. They are The Ugly American.

So Boner, where the hell are the gawd damn jobs!? Minimum pay increase, equal pay for equal work for those pesky women. Immigration reform? Dear goddess the GOP makes my head hurt.

Thanks spaneone, they make me

[3catwoman3]

9. Single minded...

.or simple minded? More likely both.

[sheshe2]

11. Bingo

[Stonepounder]

5. Einstein: "The definition of insanity

is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." I guess the definition of absolutely bat-shit, screaming, zonkers is doing the same thing over and over again and knowing that the result will be exactly the same.

[merrily]

12. No evidence that Einstein ever said that and it's highly doubtful that he would have.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/9-albert-einstein-quotes-that-are-totally-fake/


Psychiatry was not Einstein's field and he was not given to bsing about sciences that were not his speciality.. Also, if Einstein were nonetheless to purport to give THE definition of insanity, I would expect him to use a clinical definition. This quotation does not appear in any of his writings, nor is there any reliable sourcing of this definition to him in speeches or conversation.

What you have quoted is one definition of insanity, and a rather pop pysch or colloquial definition, at that, not THE definition.

[Stonepounder]

16. Yeah, but it still fits the situation, which was the point I was trying to make. nt

[merrily]

17. Making a point without disinformation is possible.

[Stonepounder]

20. <sigh> OK, maybe it was Alberts brother.

However, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html or http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26032.html. I'm not realy stupid. There are lots of quotes floating around that have been accepted into the collective unconscious. This is one of them. And using the supposed quote isn't really disinformation. Whether it was Einstein, Ben Franklin, an old Chinese proverb, or narconon, the original point remains.

[merrily]

21. Is it really that hard to admit you posted a mistake? Or just let it go?

Yes, attributing some colloquial saying that purports to be THE definition of insanity to Einstein when he never wrote it and apparently never is indeed disinformation. Why is that difficult to get?

It's incorrectly attributed to Einstein to make it seem smarter than it is.


A lot of bullshit is in the collective consciousness. That doesn't mean it should be repeated on DU.

[Initech]

6. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 56 times....

What happens after the second?

[Populist_Prole]

7. Keeping the faith of conservative nutjobs before they die off

Lest they mellow and adopt a "what the hell" attitude and not be partisan reactionaries in 2016 ( if they make it )

[moondust]

8. Will someone kindly tell them

TO GO THE FUCK HOME WE ARE NOT GOING TO PAY THEIR SORRY ASSES FOR THIS STUPID BULLSHIT.


Thank you in advance.

[gerogie2]

10. The replacement plan is for the working poor to die quickly n/t

Lunatic fringe has taken over the entire congress.

[merrily]

13. Death of poor people does not seem to have a downside for the soul-less among the 1%.

[merrily]

14. DC kabuki theater. The nutter base expects repeal , now that Republicans control both Houses.

However, Senate Democrats, though in a minority, can block via the 60 vote cloture rule, even if all Republican Senators vote with the House. So, there will be no adverse consequences to Republicans of this vote--unless enough Democrats join them. And I would not be surprised if they already know exactly how Senates Dems will vote on this.

Either way, Republicans stand to lost nothing by the vote because, no matter what happens, if anything, they will be able to blame Senate Democrats.

D.C. kabuki theater.

[herding cats]

15. They have two tricks in their hat.

1. Repeal the ACA.

2. Benghazi.

It's like being stuck in the movie Groundhog Day for years.

[Orsino]

18. Hatred? No.

But they are desperate to fill time with anything that looks like work and isn't.

[spanone]

23. they hate the black man in the white house...if he was against the ACA, they would be for it.

[Orsino]

32. I think the hate-talk is mostly for the rubes.

What we're seeing in their treatment is rivalry more than bigotry.

[ChosenUnWisely]

19. Ok Dems seeing that the RW wants to repeal it and the RW has no alternative

and almost all Democrats lack the guts to call them on their BS

Why don't you clowns go on the offensive and bring up a bill for a Public Option, over 70% of ALL Americans want a Public Option

[Bobbie Jo]

24. Let me get this straight....

House R's vote to repeal ACA for the 56th fucking time, and you pop in to piss and moan about the Democrats being "clowns"

Welcome to DU, "ChosenUnWisely."

You're on a roll....

[ChosenUnWisely]

25. Yes the current crop of Dems are clowns if they had a lick of sense they would not have lost

both the house and senate, so yeah they are clowns.

So for the past almost 6 years and some of that time the Dems had both the Senate and the House, there was not a single bill to have a public option.

If they are not clowns then they are incompetent boobs at best.

[Bobbie Jo]

26. Oh please.

Been there, done that.


Enjoy your stay, "ChosenUnWisley."

[ChosenUnWisely]

27. You threating me or something?

[Bobbie Jo]

28. lol what?

That was threatening?

Just wishing you well in your DU endeavors.

Enjoy!

[ChosenUnWisely]

30. Whatever

[Bobbie Jo]

31. Indeed.

[DearAbby]

22. Total hypocrisy

When they stand before a camera and say, "Absolutely, all American children should be vaccinated" then turn around and vote to repeal medical access to millions of low income people. This is the reason why we SHOULD have healthcare, A Public Health Issue.

[RobinA]

33. I Have to Wonder

if they really want to win this battle. Let's say they win in the House and Senate, override a veto and the thing gets repealed. What then? They have just thrown millions of people off insurance. I can't believe they think that would play well at the polls except with the hardcore "get Obama" crowd, and I don't think that gang will win you too many national elections.