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Title: Rep. Thomas Massie's statement on his vote against ObamaCare II
Source:
Facebook - Congressman Thomas Massie
URL Source: https://www.facebook.com/RepThomasMassie/posts/1581697061854452
Published: May 4, 2017
Author: Thomas Massie
Post Date: 2017-05-04 18:54:49 by Hondo68
Keywords: GOP ObamaCare II, Illegal Alien sanctuary, DACA Dreamer Care
Views: 3182
Comments: 7
As recently as a year ago, Republicans argued that mandates were unconstitutional, bailouts were immoral, and subsidies would bankrupt our country. Today, however, the House voted for a healthcare bill that makes these objectionable measures permanent.
The former Democrat Speaker of the House was rightfully derided for imploring Members to vote for a healthcare bill to “find out what was in it.” Yet today, we voted on a healthcare bill for which the text was available only a few hours before the vote. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office had no time to even provide Congress with a preliminary estimate of the full cost of this bill.
By repealing a small number of Obamacare mandates, while leaving others in place, this bill runs the risk of destroying what remains of the individual health insurance market. The option in this bill that allows States to apply for waivers from some Obamacare mandates is well-intentioned. However, it falls far short of our promise to repeal Obamacare. There also remains the risk that State legislatures, like our federal legislature, are unable to withstand the political pressure from lobbyists who defend Obamacare, and the pressure from those who receive Obamacare’s welfare handouts.
This bill should have included measures that allow Americans to take charge of their own healthcare and get the government out of the way. These measures include allowing the deduction of health insurance costs from income taxes, giving everyone the ability to purchase insurance across state lines, and allowing individuals to band together through any organization to purchase insurance.
In weighing my vote, I heeded the wise advice that “one should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” If this bill becomes law, it could result in worse outcomes, fewer options, and higher prices for Kentuckians who seek health care. In summary, I voted against this bill not because it’s imperfect, but because it’s not good.
Poster Comment:
It will never pass the Senate anyway.
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In summary, I voted against this bill not because it’s imperfect, but because it’s not good.
I like how he turns the "perfect becoming the enemy of the good" argument around on the ninnies who bleat it out about every 5 minutes. Massey is pretty witty.
By the time pols are reciting such hoary platitudes like a flock of parrots, you know something stinks pretty bad.
#2. To: hondo68 (#0) (Edited)
As recently as a year ago, Republicans argued that mandates were unconstitutional, bailouts were immoral, and subsidies would bankrupt our country
I don't have a problem
if our taxes are used
to help the helpless
the working poor
as long as it doesn't fund
the liberal - communist - criminal element - agenda
love
boris
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
#3. To: BorisY, suicidal liberal bleeding heart (#2)
I don't have a problem if our taxes are used to help the helpless the working poor
Trump's antifa, DACA dream students, and Muslim refugees will be in the best of health when they behead you.
Enjoy the experience of seeing your tax dollars at work, up close and personal!
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul#4. To: Tooconservative (#1)
Massey is pretty witty.
The House overwhelmingly voted Thursday to impose new sanctions on North Korea amid heightened tensions over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The vote, 419-1, targets North Korea’s shipping industry and use of slave labor.
Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the sole member to vote against the measure.
#5. To: Gatlin (#4) (Edited)
Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the sole member to vote against the measure.Unanimous votes in a legislature is the hallmark of dictatorships. Like, oh, North Korea. Or Soviet Russia. Or China. Etc.
Even in declaring war on Japan on 12/8/41, there was a lone no vote (as I recall, the first woman congresscritter).
| The vote was 82 – 0 in the Senate and 388 – 1 in the House. Jeannette Rankin, a pacifist and the first woman elected to Congress (in 1916), cast the only vote against the declaration, eliciting hisses from some of her peers. Several colleagues requested she change her vote to make the resolution unanimous—or at least to abstain—but she refused.[6][7] "As a woman, I can't go to war," she said, "and I refuse to send anyone else." Nine other women held Congressional seats at the time. After the vote, an angry mob followed her from the Capitol building, forcing her to take refuge in a telephone booth until United States Capitol Police could rescue her. Two days later a similar war declaration against Germany and Italy came to vote; Rankin abstained. Nine other women voted in favor of the declaration of war. |
Massie's positions don't seem to lead him toward a Senate seat (to replace McConnell if he retires). But his district is solid with him so he's still not going anywhere.
Massie could be there in 20-30 years from now. He's that kind of congresscritter, like Dingell in MI or Ron Paul in his district (before they gerrymandered him out of office finally) or Walter Jones Jr. The establishment may be able to keep them from advancing to committee chairmanships or to higher office but they can't easily dislodge them from their House seat either.
#6. To: Gatlin (#4)
" The vote, 419-1, targets North Korea’s shipping industry and use of slave labor.Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the sole member to vote against the measure. "
What was his reasoning for voting no ?
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt
I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#7. To: hondo68 (#0)
It will never pass the Senate anyway.
one should never say never, there are ways and there are means, and of course there is compromise and the art of the deal. Compromise is something that american politicians are short on but perhaps Dump can teach
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