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Collectively, Republicans are a weird group -- Republicans in the State of Washington celebrated the State's Republican AG joining a lawsuit to fight-----fight tooth and nail, against finding a way to
bring affordable healthcare via Obamacare to over 200,000 of their constituents/friends/neighbors. But now-----now, after years of ideological foaming at the mouth, the Republicans are set to use Obamacare to balance their budget -- huh, are Washington State Republican lawmakers saying their ideological opposition to Obamacare was/is idiotic and they're changing their ways, or...?
Senates GOP is counting on Obamacare to balance budget | Seattle Times Newspaper
Sunday, April 14, 2013 - Page updated at 07:30 p.m.
By Andrew Garber
Seattle Times Olympia bureau
OLYMPIA Republicans were at war over President Obamas health-care law less than a year ago. The Republican state attorney general had joined a lawsuit to overturn the law, and the partys legislators warned it would cost too much money.
Now the GOP-led state Senate is counting on Obamacare to help balance the budget, booking more than $400 million in savings from the federal program over the next two years. House Republican budget writers assume some health-care savings as well.
Well take it because financially its better for us, said Don Benton, R-Vancouver, Senate deputy Republican leader.
But we dont like it. We dont like the policy because it moves us dramatically toward a kind of socialized, one-payer-type system
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IOW's - the Republicans are saying 'Well implement Obamacare because it works for us, but we don't like it because it exposes our ideological idiocy' -- Republicans are very-very bizarre collective.
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Collectively, Republicans are a weird group -- Republicans in the State of Washington celebrated the State's Republican AG joining a lawsuit to fight-----fight tooth and nail, against finding a way to
bring affordable healthcare via Obamacare to over 200,000 of their constituents/friends/neighbors. But now-----now, after years of ideological foaming at the mouth, the Republicans are set to use Obamacare to balance their budget -- huh, are Washington State Republican lawmakers saying their ideological opposition to Obamacare was/is idiotic and they're changing their ways, or...?
Senates GOP is counting on Obamacare to balance budget | Seattle Times Newspaper
Sunday, April 14, 2013 - Page updated at 07:30 p.m.
By Andrew Garber
Seattle Times Olympia bureau
OLYMPIA Republicans were at war over President Obamas health-care law less than a year ago. The Republican state attorney general had joined a lawsuit to overturn the law, and the partys legislators warned it would cost too much money.
Now the GOP-led state Senate is counting on Obamacare to help balance the budget, booking more than $400 million in savings from the federal program over the next two years. House Republican budget writers assume some health-care savings as well.
Well take it because financially its better for us, said Don Benton, R-Vancouver, Senate deputy Republican leader.
But we dont like it. We dont like the policy because it moves us dramatically toward a kind of socialized, one-payer-type system
<snip>
IOW's - the Republicans are saying 'Well implement Obamacare because it works for us, but we don't like it because it exposes our ideological idiocy' -- Republicans are very-very bizarre collective.
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