Discussion: White House: Obama Would Veto GOP Bill To Repeal O-Care Work-Hour Rule

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Republicans have quickly made their strategy obvious. They plan on only passing laws that they know Obama will veto, and then complain that he is an obstructionist. I don’t think Americans are dumb enough for this to work, but we’ll see.

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ONce AGAIN ILLEgaL KENYan-BORN faKE PREsident BALAck insANE noBAMA ILLEGALLY threaTENs to UNCOnstitutionaLLY VETO the WILL of the AMericaN peoPLE and the GOP mandaTE!!11!!!one!!1!1!!!

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Yeah…anyone who voted this TeaPub Congress in are dumb enough…

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Actually, I wish he could have a ceremony for the cameras where he vetoes SEVERAL Teabagger bills, one after the other, by ostentatiously hitting them with a special stamp made up especially for the occasion. The press would eat it up with a spoon:

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Yay GOP Reform. It’s always fun when they take over Congress and play their Greatest Hits. Looking forward to the grand finale of Schiavo-esque God-infused overreach.

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President Barack Obama

Soon to be known as:

Veto Corleone
Danny DeVeto
VegeMeatoVetoMan

May the Veto power remain strong in him.

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This is just so scummy of the GOP. They’re perfectly happy having someone work at a job that would have their employees work 35 hours a week, just a half day less than a FTE, and completely screw them on benefits. And then they have the nerve to call it the Save the American Workers Act? Save them from what, having a better quality of life? I usually try to restrain, but these guys are assholes.

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Good.

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I pray to god that that’s going to be the strategy. Because the alternative is at least one full year of playing “Chicken With Hostages.” And I’m very afraid that’s what we’re really going to get because the Turtle and the Boner have run the experiment repeatedly and the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the data is that they can do any goddamn thing they want, no matter how awful or destructive, for the entire first year of a two year election cycle without suffering any electoral consequences whatsoever.

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GOoPers…Governance for them is helping pay back big business donors through offensive, yet nothing more than symbolic legislation that will hopefully never see the light of day. Seems to me I remember the day when these rightwing nutjobs fought all manner of workers unions against the 40 hour work-week (again, for big business’ sake), along with being just fine with the hardships of child labor as well. But now that these same businesses don’t want to pay for their employee’s insurance…eh, fuck that I guess. Time to change the paradigm. Their model American workforce apparently is a pliable thing so long as they can manipulate who gets what for compensation and coverage.

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All 36.3% of them.

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Of course, that was the entire 2014 electorate; well under 20% of eligible voters are actively responsible for this. (And somewhere over half of those who didn’t bother to vote could have prevented it…)

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Personally, I’d say that both the ~20% who voted Republican and the ~63% that didn’t vote, excepting those caught in GOP voter suppression schemes, are equally to blame for this.

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Yup, pretty much the point of my convoluted post (bearing in mind that somewhere under half of that 63% would have voted GOP).

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causing the problem it pretends intends to solve

FIFY Dylan.

You know very well that conservatives have no intention of actually solving any problems at all - that’s just not what they do. I seriously doubt if they are even capable of actually solving a problem - any problem.

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Actually, the majority of voters are responsible for this. That is always the case.

Just because most of them didn’t actually vote doesn’t let them off the hook - the result is the same as if they had voted straight GOP.

I hope they’re all gonna be happy the next couple of years, because they are the ones that made it possible.

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I would hope that Democrats didn’t vote for republican candidates, but there may have been some protest votes against gridlock, lack of accomplishments in Congress, whatever they imagined was the problem with Democrats in charge. Chances are they won’t be paying attention when all those problems continue but on a bigger and meaner scale.

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Wow, I guess I was unusually unclear with this one – that was the point of my last sentence…