agenda right now. do they even have one beyond just being the party of no to anything president obama proposes? they shut down the government over the president s health care law that started out as a conservative proposal. and even today their goal remains the same. stop the law at all costs. here was speaker john boehner just today. let s be clear. the only way to fully protect the american people is to scrap this law once and for all. there is no way to fix this. meanwhile, the senate passed legislation last week to make it illegal to discriminate against someone in the workforce because they are gay, lesbian, or transgender. will john boehner allow a vote over in the house? this legislation that i ve dealt with as chairman of the education workforce committee long before i was back in leadership is unnecessary and would provide a basis for frivolous lawsuits.
fixing or replacing it, the cry is how dare you. you can t do this. it s a law. it was passed. when the president does it unilaterally, democrats have no problem with that. i think we ll give an hour to the republican plan for health care. because i think it would go through quickly and we could do the sideshow the rest of the show. what is that guy talking about, sean spicer? the replacement plan. there is no alternative. yeah. i have no idea. all you need to know is what john boehner, the speaker, the republican speaker said today. which was there s no way to fix this. it must be repealed. mitch mcconnell the republican leader in the senate has said that it has to be taken apart root and branch. so that s their position. as a matter of fact, mcconnell s being attacked by the tea party for not being striden enough on that topic. however many problems there are with this rollout and the
the senate passed immigration reform. will the republicans in the house pick that one up? the idea that we re going to take up a 1300 page bill that no one had ever read which is what the senate did, is not going to happen in the house. frankly i ll make clear we have no intention of ever going into conference on the senate bill. senate republicans blocked a new gun control measure last spring to strengthen background checks. something the majority support. according to boehner, the legislation was unnecessary. we ve got a system of laws that are not enforced today. i would think that before we begin to add more rules and regulations on law-abiding citizens, that we at least expect our law enforcement personnel and the department of justice to enforce the current law. you sense a pattern here? jonathan capehart is for t the
democratic perspective the president knew he was up against a wall. he knew he had no margin for error. he knew this was a complex program. and no good deed goes unpunished. because he was trying to meld the private markets and government regulation, created a complex vulnerable program. and he did all that to meet republican complaints. yeah. even though it was in the end a fool s errand. republicans were never going to support it. he bears blame for not executing so far. he took that blame. i ve got to say, i ve never scene him quite as in the law there s a phrase confession and avoidance. that s what the president did. he confessed that the facts were true but it didn t mean he should be convicted because he had other facts to show which is that he had a plan, the republicans don t, and he has a desire to make whole the american people on health care which is the republicans evidently don t. okay.
he writes, quote, privately republicans on capitol hill note if the upton law became law, fewer would purchase from the obama care exchange. depriving these market places of the young and healthy customers they need to expand the coverage guarantees. the house republican strategy leadership aide said to use committee oversight and legislation to chip away at the affordable care act. house speaker john boehner outlined his approach to stop this entire law wednesday morning during a private caucus meeting. so they don t have an alternative. they have a plan either to kill the plan by just attacking it constantly or changing it systemically. and the amazing thing to me is in the news coverage of this i m going back to my old saw here. why doesn t anybody every time a republican says something against obama care, why don t say they you re at bat, what s your plan. well, it would be helpful if somebody did, in fact, do that,