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Title: ‘Let It Implode’: Tom DeLay Tears Into Republican Leadership On Obamacare
Source: DailyCaller
URL Source: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/02/l ... lican-leadership-on-obamacare/
Published: Apr 2, 2017
Author: John Griffing
Post Date: 2017-04-03 12:10:41 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 708
Comments: 5

Some in the Republican Party are preventing Obamacare repeal, claiming it is impossible to accomplish “repeal and replace” unless done with one bill. But in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay reminds readers that the 1994 Republican Congress implemented the “Contract with America” with nine separate bills.

DeLay, known by friend and foe as “The Hammer,” is destroying excuses by current Republican leadership after failing to repeal Obamacare. “Republicans, tea partiers and others, demanded Obamacare be repealed; they didn’t demand it be replaced,” DeLay said critically.

“In the 90s, we had a plan in place. We had an agenda, and it was an agenda that we ran on,” DeLay said, speaking of his successful House leadership role. “When we were running in 1994, we had actually written bills that members had signed onto. So instead of writing a leadership bill and stuffing it down people’s throats, and saying, ‘This is a binary choice,’ we did the bills first [before the election] and members had to sign onto it. They had to sign it,” DeLay said, indirectly taking a swipe at House Speaker Paul Ryan’s alleged lack of transparency.

“There was only one member who didn’t sign the Contract with America,” DeLay continued. “So once we had the bills that the members had already signed onto, in less than 100 days, we brought 10 of those bills to the floor and passed nine of them and eventually ended up with a Democrat president signing 73 percent of them.”

“We also did Medicare reform, which is almost identical to this process, and only had a ten-vote margin at the time, and no help.”

Former President Bill Clinton made history by coming to the table after two separate government shutdowns, enacting almost all of what the Republican Congress wanted. Republican-inspired welfare reform and capital gains tax cuts contributed to an unparalleled economic expansion during Clinton’s second term, complete with four percent unemployment and record stock market capitalization.

Some economists attribute these macroeconomic trends to the “dot com” boom. Others suggest the dot com boom would not have occurred without the investment incentives brought on by Republican policies.

For DeLay, recent leadership failure is a question of process and approach.

“The House needs to do their job and the Senate needs to do their job. This whole nonsense of ‘you have to have 60 votes’ … My entire career, the Senate used the 60 votes rule when they didn’t want to do anything, but they always found a way to do what they wanted to do,” DeLay said.

“A year ago they passed Obamacare repeal without 60 votes, for example. How did they do that?”

“The bottom line of passing bills is you have to turn up the heat. If you were going to do one big bill, why didn’t you do it out of the House, send it over to the Senate and let them do whatever they’re going to do with it, and then have it go to conference and write the real bill? That’s called ‘regular order,’” DeLay remarked chuckling.

Beyond simply condemning current leadership approach, DeLay also offered advice and insight for how stated Republican goals on health care can still be accomplished with relative ease.

“This is a great opportunity to regroup. You can pass one bill, two bills, three bills, all building a market for the insurance industry by getting the government out the insurance business.”

“What should happen is, and Rand Paul said it Friday, they ought to today pass his bill that creates associations, co-ops and risk pools. The next bill ought to be the across the state lines. If you want to continue to subsidize, why don’t you take the Earned Income Credit — drives me crazy that we even have it — if you get a refund check, it has to be cashed in a Health Savings Account,” DeLay explained.

The former House majority leader also suggested that, alternatively, Republicans just let Obamacare collapse — reinvigorating repeal efforts.

“Over the next few months, we create this market. Let Obamacare implode. That builds the pressure to repeal, and then brings repeal back.”


Poster Comment:

It is not, as Trump alleged, the Freedom Caucus that is trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It's the RINOs and their RynoCare ploy that they deceived Trump into supporting.

DeLay makes a lot of sense on repeal and what to replace it with, starting with Rand Paul's bill.

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#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)

"... why don’t you take the Earned Income Credit ... if you get a refund check, it has to be cashed in a Health Savings Account,”

If you qualify for the EITC, you're probably on Medicaid. No need for an HSA.

misterwhite  posted on  2017-04-03   12:24:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: misterwhite (#1) (Edited)

If you qualify for the EITC, you're probably on Medicaid. No need for an HSA.

That isn't true. It has always been for working poor to get extra cash based on the number of dependents in the household. It is welfare payments from the IRS to households that paid no taxes but who were working and making enough that they did not qualify for traditional welfare payments (or had a working father in the house).

The vast majority of EITC recipients and money "refunded" is to working class families. And, BTW, illegal aliens get this form of welfare too.

Or are you just trying to hijack this thread into an EITC discussion? EITC was a driveby comment from DeLay. Clearly, he was not saying anything about whether EITC reform should or could ever be a part of this current bill.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-04-03   12:46:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Tooconservative (#2)

"The vast majority of EITC recipients and money "refunded" is to working class families."

Because they're "working class families" doesn't mean they're not on Medicaid. A family of four can earn up to $34,000 and still be eligible for Medicaid.

What's the point of applying their EITC to an HSA? They don't have an HSA. They have Medicaid.

That was my point. It was a stupid proposition. I have no interest in changing the discussion to EITC and I didn't bring it up.

misterwhite  posted on  2017-04-03   13:36:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: misterwhite (#3)

You took the most irrelevant offhand remark by DeLay and made two posts about it.

I don't suppose you have any actual comment about the substance of DeLay's extended remarks?

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-04-03   14:00:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tooconservative (#4)

"! don't suppose you have any actual comment about the substance of DeLay's extended remarks?"

If that idiotic comment about applying EITC money to HSAs is any indicator of the kind of thought put into the rest of his remarks, I'm not interested.

misterwhite  posted on  2017-04-03   14:40:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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