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Title: Boehner: 'Obamacare Is The Law Of The land'
Source:
NBC
URL Source: http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_new ... re-is-the-law-of-the-land?lite
Published: Nov 8, 2012
Author: Michael O'Brien
Post Date: 2012-11-08 18:53:42 by Brian S
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Views: 3081
Comments: 6
Updated 6 p.m. ET - Republicans' efforts to undo President Barack Obama's health care reform law appear to have come to an end, as House Speaker John Boehner described it Thursday as the "law of the land." In an interview with ABC News, the nation's top elected Republican seemed to indicate that Congress wouldn't engage in the type of repeated repeal votes the way it had in the past two years. Boehner's office provided a transcript of the exchange: SAWYER: A couple of other questions about the agenda now. You have said next year that you would repeal the healthcare vote. That's still your mission? BOEHNER: Well, I think the election changes that. It's pretty clear that the president was reelected, Obamacare is the law of the land. I think there are parts of the healthcare law that are gonna be very difficult to implement. And very expensive. And as the time when we're tryin' to find a way to create a path toward a balanced budget everything has to be on the table. SAWYER: But you won't be spending the time next year trying to repeal Obamacare? BOEHNER: There certainly may be parts of it that we believe-- need to be changed. We may do that. No decisions at this point. The speaker's pronouncement, if nothing else, signifies a pivot away from Republicans' efforts to showcase for conservatives their doggedness in looking to repeal "Obamacare." It's also a recognation that the 2009-2010 health care law that came to define Obama's first term in office -- and propel Republicans to a majority in the House -- is here to stay. A spokesman for Boehner sought to clarify the speaker's comments. "While ObamaCare is the law of the land, it is costing us jobs and threatening our health care," said Kevin Smith, the speaker's communications director. "Speaker Boehner and House Republicans remain committed to repealing the law, and he said in the interview it would be on the table." The Supreme Court's summer 2012 ruling upholding the constitutionality of the law disarmed conservatives of one of their best possible chances of defeating the health care law once and for all. And Mitt Romney's loss on Tuesday meant that Republicans won't have in the White House a president that could severely limit the scope of the law before its key provisions begin to take effect in 2014.
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#1. To: All, I'm Sorry... (#0)
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... Are you? As LF's leading Obamabot, why would you be sorry about the RAT-messiah's greatest Marxist accomplishment to date? Or are you just being sarcastic?
"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, Of course I was but now I'm in a quandary, there isn't a DEM in sight that I can start supporting for 2016...
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... There'll be plenty of Marxists to come to the fore of the RAT-Party in four years...I'm betting it'll be li'l Andy Cuomo...MUD
"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, The taxes and "individual mandate" in Owe-bamacare can be NULLIFIED BY JURRIES.
Apparently NOT if it makes it to the Supreme Court...seems Justice Roberts is an Obamabot...MUD
"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States,
#2. To: Brian S (#1)
"I'm Sorry..."
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
#3. To: Mudboy Slim (#2)
Or are you just being sarcastic?
#4. To: Brian S (#3)
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
#5. To: Mudboy Slim (#2)
The FARO RESERVE BANK!!! 
#6. To: Coral Snake (#5)
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
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