Good enough for thee, but not for me

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President Obama declared that the new health care law "is going to be affecting every American family." Except his own, of course.

 

The new health care law exempts the president from having to participate in it. Leadership and committee staffers in the House and Senate who wrote the bill are exempted as well. A weasel-worded definition of "staff" includes only the members' personal staff in the new system; the committee staff that drafted the legislation opted themselves out. Because they were more familiar with the contents of the law than anyone in the country, it says a lot that they carved out their own special loophole. Anyway, the law is intended to affect "ordinary Americans," according to Vice President Joe Biden (who - being a heartbeat away from the presidency - also is not covered), not Washington insiders.

 

typikal

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President Obama declared that the new health care law "is going to be affecting every American family." Except his own, of course.

 

The new health care law exempts the president from having to participate in it. Leadership and committee staffers in the House and Senate who wrote the bill are exempted as well. A weasel-worded definition of "staff" includes only the members' personal staff in the new system; the committee staff that drafted the legislation opted themselves out. Because they were more familiar with the contents of the law than anyone in the country, it says a lot that they carved out their own special loophole. Anyway, the law is intended to affect "ordinary Americans," according to Vice President Joe Biden (who - being a heartbeat away from the presidency - also is not covered), not Washington insiders.

 

typikal

 

Absolutely! You should right now send a letter of protest to the Senator that wrote the exemption. Republican Tom Colburn.

 

Reid spokesman Jim Manley acknowledged that the bill exempts committee staff but argued that leadership staff is not excluded. As for why committee staff is excluded, Manley said that when leaders merged the health care bills from the Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, they took Coburn’s language from the HELP Committee rather than Grassley’s Finance Committee proposal because they feared Grassley’s language was so broad that it would have required “people like legislative counsel, Architect of the Capitol, etc.” to participate in the exchanges, too.

 

[westvirginia]

Absolutely! You should right now send a letter of protest to the Senator that wrote the exemption. Republican Tom Colburn.

 

 

 

 

As your little quotie-quote said darling, it was taken from something else entirely and applied here. Brilliant...

 

That being said, there should be a constitutional amendment that members of fedgov must use the same sh!t they set up for us. cork smuckers.

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