Groundhog Day in the House:

[$tevie]

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to repeal Barack Obama‘s health-care reform law. You have read that sentence before. It was the 37th time Republicans have voted to repeal or defund all or part of the President’s signature legislative achievement since taking control of the House in 2011. Democrats still hold the Senate, and Obama was re-elected, so the bill is doomed to die. Republicans are well aware of this. “Obamacare is the law of the land,” Speaker John Boehner conceded after the President won a second term. So why bother to go through the rigamarole of passing a bill that has zero chance of becoming law?

As a sop to House GOP freshmen, mainly. Unlike the rest of the GOP majority, the three-dozen Republican rookies had yet to register a vote against the law. Nearly all of them blistered the health-care bill on their way to Washington, and they wanted an opportunity to live up to the rhetoric. The 112th Congress may have spent dozens of hours litigating the point, “but this is my first time,” said Tom Rice, a Republican freshman from South Carolina.

http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/16/gro...crats-too/

[vision63]

This is who/what Republicans are.

"It can't be bargained with, it can't feel pain or mercy, and it will stop at absolutely nothing until you are dead!"

[RgrF]

Although the above description may be apt, max is more an obnoxious libertarian, who if (not already) committed tend to the tendentious.

[cbelt3]

I expect that it's more of a perception that they all made campaign promises to get 'rid of Obamacare', and are 'keeping the promise'. It's just those bastiches in the Senate that are keeping them back.

If their campaign promise had been to 'relieve the incredible burden healthcare costs have made on Americans' the process would be VERY different.

We did the math, and for the last five years, our healthcare costs exceeded our housing cost (mortgage + property taxes). And we live in a nice house.

[Gutenberg]

Estimated cost to taxpayers of the recall votes so far: $64.75 million.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitic...37th-time/

[$tevie]

Gutenberg wrote:
Estimated cost to taxpayers of the recall votes so far: $64.75 million.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitic...37th-time/

Well, that's fiscally responsible. 8-)

[Lemon Drop]

These votes are really just expensive pro-forma exercises in nothing.

What Republican leaders are hoping will do in "Obamacare" is the current IRS scandal. Unfortunately it has provided them such an opening. By the time they are done parading every hassled tea party group in front of their congressional committee, there will be little appetite for applying the IRS to any politically charged purpose.