Letters: Vote says something about Congress

The U.S. House of Representatives took a vote to repeal Obamacare (aka Romneycare) Wednesday (July 11), and it passed. Shock! It has no chance of succeeding in the Senate, and the House members who brought it forward knew that. So instead of taking on the monumental tasks it faces in getting our economy growing, they wasted taxpayers’ money in the form of staff and members’ time, documentation, etc. to prove the already proved.

When will the House of Representative start to do the people’s business? A more-telling question is do they know how? It is starting to appear the answer to that question is no. I bet some of them don’t even realize that such a vote is a waste of money.

Robert Bloodworth

U.S. Navy, retired

Baton Rouge

Comments

1) Comment by Whatnow - 18/07/2012

@JWT, thank you. And we can thank Harry Reid for not bringing those pro-economy, pro-healthcare, pro- fiscally responsible bills forward. Bi-partisan aren't you, Harry?

2) Comment by JWT - 17/07/2012

Please list the bills that were to repeal the ENTIRE Obamacare. It was voted on TWICE and not 33 times - Where do you get your news ?? - Yes, repeal of parts of a bad bill was voted on many times and it should be noted that most of those votes were a bipartisan repealing of those small segments of Obamacare. The House voted only twice to repeal the full bill. Once again our liberal friends lie and distort the truth to make it look like the House is doing nothing... which of course is just empirically false by the sheer number of pro-economy, pro-healthcare, pro- fiscally responsible bills being put forward and passed by the House but not voted on by the do-nothing Democrats in the Senate.

3) Comment by DMJ - 17/07/2012

Yep. He represented you 33 times and still didn't get results. Awesome.

4) Comment by Whatnow - 17/07/2012

Hey, my representative represented me with vote to repeal Obamacare. I wanted the Senate to know that I am against it. So they were doing this person's business. They were making a stand for most of their constituents. That is their job. The majority of the Congressional Democrats think compromise is a dirty word and that's not how Congress is supposed to operate.

5) Comment by DMJ - 17/07/2012

Supposedly, these 33 votes cost the taxpayers a total of $50 million. So much for the party of fiscal responsibility. Wasteful spending is ok as long as it is good political theatre, right? What a joke.

6) Comment by warreni - 17/07/2012

Mr. Bloodworth is correct; holding 33 votes on the same measure when it is known that it will be ignored by the Senate is political theater not genuine statesmanship. Attila, the Republicans that you believe will be our political saviors are the problem, not the solution. The vast majority of the Congressional Republicans think compromise is a dirty word and that's not how Congress is supposed to operate. If you support this repeated and mind-numbingly stupid re-vote, I would ask you why you believe that spending taxpayer dollars (hundreds of thousands, if not millions) on these political games is a good conservative practice.

7) Comment by [e-mail] - 17/07/2012

So what should they do Bloodworth? Let the Senate run their business? The last time I checked all spending bills are supposed to originate in the House, not the Senate. Just because the Republicans are allowing themselves to be bullied by the Democrats is no reason to completely throw in the towel.

8) Comment by Attila - 17/07/2012

Democrats are not interested in anything that the Republicans propose and Republicans are not interested in anything that the Democrats propose. Anything that clears the House doesn't get taken up in the Senate. The majority of the blame for this goes to the liberals who never met a tax they didn't like or a spending program either for that matter. The only way this country will stay out of bankruptcy is for Republicans to take control of both houses of Congress or the White House and one house of Congress. Left to their own devices the Democrats will tax and spend this country into oblivion.