Posted on July 30 2013 - 8:30 AM - Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter!
Thirty-five House Democrats broke party ranks last week to vote for a Republican bill to delay the employer mandate in Obamacare. They?re the canaries in the coal mine, and everyone knows what President Obama thinks of coal.
In an earnest act of self-preservation, 21 of those 35 Democrats voted with the Republicans to postpone implementation of the individual mandate. The votes are symbolic since no delay bill will ever make it past Harry Reid, and certainly not past an Obama veto. Nonetheless, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who doubles as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, isn?t happy. In an account
Wednesday in Politico, the Capitol Hill daily, she berated the turncoats on the House floor. The party chairman thus exposes a growing Democratic divide over Obamacare.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough has a new responsibility for applying smelling salts to Democratic congressmen who faint at the prospect of being judged by voters in their districts come November 2014. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, who conducted the Obamacare legislation through the Senate, has been whipped back into line, punished for speaking truth to party power
about the runaway train he sees bearing down on us all. Presumably after a visit to the White House woodshed, he cheerfully took his place on the tracks to wait for doomsday. In an op-ed essay for Politico, he says he?s ?confident the administration?s rollout is on track.? We know how to read between the lines, and take note that ?on track? is exactly where train wrecks always occur. It?s easy for him to say. He?ll be in safe and happy retirement in Montana when all the wreckage is scattered along the right of way.
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