House leader Roskam trapped in GOP death spiral over Obamacare
My Congressman and House Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam has more to worry about than the House ethics probe into his $25,653 trip to Taiwan to visit his daughter, paid for by the Chinese Culture University (or was it, in violation of US law, the government of Taiwan?).
No, his real anxiety comes from his continuing role as a GOP House leader in the GOP death spiral over their hideous obsession with overturning Obamacare which is working, providing medical care relief to tens of millions of Americans, and is becoming embedded in our land as surely as Social Security and Medicare. Instead of creating Job 1, Roskam has now voted 39 times (or is it 40 by now?) to overturn a law which Roskam, beneficiary of the Rolls Royce of health insurance policies known as Congresscare, neither needs nor wants to improve the industrialized world's worst health care delivery system.
Leader Roskam is now ensnared in GOP determination to wage economic extremism as a last, desperate response now that Obamacare is taking root. For starters they've skipped end of the fiscal year compromises needed to avoid a government shutdown, and once again are threatening to prevent a debt ceiling rise needed to avoid not only a US financial crisis but a worldwide one as well.
What is really fueling Roskam's despair is that everyday, more and more Americans, seeing the improvements Obamacare is making in their lives such as health insurance premium rebates required by Obamacare from insurers who gouge their customers, children who can stay on their parents' policies till age 26, more preventative care covered at no cost, and soon, the glorious end to the infamous "pre-existing conditions" clause which effects 130 million Americans from either getting health care if they don't have it, or spells disaster if they lose their current policy. Furthermore, premiums in the two largest states with the most uninsured, California and New York, are dropping fast, with New York's decline approaching 50%.
Sadly, Congressman and House GOP Chief Deputy Whip Roskam, can't join the growing ranks of sensible, responsible conservatives who've read the Tea Leaves left to rot by the Tea Party fanatics bent on using Obamacare repeal as the ticket to destroying the Obama presidency. These conservatives have come to terms with Obamacare as a means of uplifting the health care of their tens of millions of less fortunate American neighbors. Roskam, sadly, has made a pact with the devil to be a GOP House leader and obediently nods his head when Speaker Boehner disgracefully argues, "We will not be judged by the laws we pass; we'll be judged by the laws we repeal". Boehner and Roskam will be judged, all right, but it will be their constituencies who are growing tired of their "ruin the Obama presidency at all costs and let their district, state and nation languish" strategy.
Getting back to "Roskam's excellent Taiwan vacation", I, too, have a daughter overseas, on the other side of the world from Taiwan in Germany. I wonder if Roskam's congressional office of constituent services can offer any tips on how I might snag a freebee to visit her?
No, his real anxiety comes from his continuing role as a GOP House leader in the GOP death spiral over their hideous obsession with overturning Obamacare which is working, providing medical care relief to tens of millions of Americans, and is becoming embedded in our land as surely as Social Security and Medicare. Instead of creating Job 1, Roskam has now voted 39 times (or is it 40 by now?) to overturn a law which Roskam, beneficiary of the Rolls Royce of health insurance policies known as Congresscare, neither needs nor wants to improve the industrialized world's worst health care delivery system.
Leader Roskam is now ensnared in GOP determination to wage economic extremism as a last, desperate response now that Obamacare is taking root. For starters they've skipped end of the fiscal year compromises needed to avoid a government shutdown, and once again are threatening to prevent a debt ceiling rise needed to avoid not only a US financial crisis but a worldwide one as well.
What is really fueling Roskam's despair is that everyday, more and more Americans, seeing the improvements Obamacare is making in their lives such as health insurance premium rebates required by Obamacare from insurers who gouge their customers, children who can stay on their parents' policies till age 26, more preventative care covered at no cost, and soon, the glorious end to the infamous "pre-existing conditions" clause which effects 130 million Americans from either getting health care if they don't have it, or spells disaster if they lose their current policy. Furthermore, premiums in the two largest states with the most uninsured, California and New York, are dropping fast, with New York's decline approaching 50%.
Sadly, Congressman and House GOP Chief Deputy Whip Roskam, can't join the growing ranks of sensible, responsible conservatives who've read the Tea Leaves left to rot by the Tea Party fanatics bent on using Obamacare repeal as the ticket to destroying the Obama presidency. These conservatives have come to terms with Obamacare as a means of uplifting the health care of their tens of millions of less fortunate American neighbors. Roskam, sadly, has made a pact with the devil to be a GOP House leader and obediently nods his head when Speaker Boehner disgracefully argues, "We will not be judged by the laws we pass; we'll be judged by the laws we repeal". Boehner and Roskam will be judged, all right, but it will be their constituencies who are growing tired of their "ruin the Obama presidency at all costs and let their district, state and nation languish" strategy.
Getting back to "Roskam's excellent Taiwan vacation", I, too, have a daughter overseas, on the other side of the world from Taiwan in Germany. I wonder if Roskam's congressional office of constituent services can offer any tips on how I might snag a freebee to visit her?
posted by Walt Zlotow at 3:55 PM
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