Why am I not surprised? ~ ~ Sooz

With Millions Still Waiting For Sandy Relief, Republicans Reintroduce Obamacare Repeal
By Adam Peck on Jan 3, 2013 at 2:38 pm

The 112th Congress gaveled to a close on Thursday afternoon without passing a relief package for victims of Hurricane Sandy or reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, but Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) isn’t too concerned about finishing what Republicans had left undone. Instead, at 12:00 PM she introduced the very first piece of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which states are now busily implementing.

House Republicans have unsuccessfully voted 33 times in the last two years to eliminate health care reform and wasted at least 88 hours and $50 million, while failing to pass a single piece of job creation legislation in the last session of Congress.

Dozens of Republicans, including 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, ran against Obamacare, yet the party suffered losses every step along the way. The Supreme Court upheld the law, House repeal efforts went nowhere in the Democratically-controlled Senate, and President Obama has pledged to veto any effort to rescind the measure. Even newly reelected Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was compelled to admit in November that Obamacare is now the law of the land (though he later backed away from his own comments and pledged to do everything in his power to undermine it).

But House Republicans are apparently not quite ready to give up the fight. At this rate, they could be on track to becoming even less productive than the least productive Congress in U.S. history.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/01/03/1394071/bachmann-repeal-obamacare/

Keep digging that hole.

They figure NY and NJ ain't ever voting Red anyway!!!!!

How the heck did Bachman ever get re-elected? Was it that cold in Minnesota at the beginning of November that people's brains froze? I mean even the Tea Party has to realize she's a whack job.

I mean even the Tea Party has to realize she's a whack job.

The Tea Party ARE whack jobs. She's familiar territory to them.

i can tell you why I am surprised- because Boehner said he wouldn't.

I'm disappointed that they broke with the traditional anti-abortion bill introduction.

Wouldn't means will in GOPLand.