House Republicans Take First Step To Repeal Obamacare, Rubber-Stamp $9 Trillion In New Debt

[UCmeNdc]

Without a single Democrat voting in support, the House narrowly advanced a budget blueprint on Friday intended to be the eventual vehicle for gutting Obamacare.

After conservatives and GOP moderates spent a week signaling that they might vote against the repeal vehicle, most Republicans fell in line, with the House voting 227-198 in support of the resolution. Only nine Republicans ultimately voted against it, joining 189 Democrats in opposition to a budget that deems it “appropriate” for U.S. debt to rise by more than $9 trillion over the next decade. (Republicans say they won’t go along with debt increases at those levels, and that they intend to write another budget this year more in line with their values.)

Among the Republicans who did vote against the resolution, most cited concerns over endorsing that amount of new debt. Three moderates also voted against the resolution, seemingly as a signal to GOP leadership that their votes shouldn’t be taken for granted in an eventual repeal or replacement.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-republicans-obamacare-repeal_us_5878f0a6e4b0e58057fe55e8

[UCmeNdc]

1. The GOP is in charge Now budget deficits do not matter,

Now the GOP will spend spend spend then they will tax cut.

[Yupster]

3. Gonna be interesting to see what happens

when they need to raise the debt limit.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Did the republicans stop posting their "Debt Clock?"

[DFW]

4. The hands get stuck when they control government

It only starts moving forward again (after making up for lost time) when a Democrat is again in the White House.