The midterm elections have come and gone and Republicans will control both the Senate and House of Representatives come January.
House Republicans have voted over 50 times, so far, to overturn Obamacare, and on Thursday Speaker Boehner promised to vote again to overturn the bill in 2015.
So here’s the deal. Republicans can pass all the laws they want to overturn Obamacare or to gut its provisions. However, Obama has already promised to veto any such efforts.
In a Wednesday post-election press conference, the president confirmed his commitment stating:
On health care, there are certainly some lines I’m going to draw. Repeal of the law I won’t sign. Efforts that would take away health care from the 10 million people who now have it and the millions more who are eligible to get it we’re not going to support. In some cases there may be recommendations that Republicans have for changes that would undermine the structure of the law, and I’ll be very honest with them about that and say, look, the law doesn’t work if you pull out that piece or that piece. [emphasis added]
And here’s the very simply truth of the matter regarding Obamacare: Congress can only override a veto “with a two-thirds majority of the number of members present in both the Senate and the House when the override vote is taken.”
End of story, and as we noted yesterday in our article about Ted Cruz being impotent on immigration, its basic math. Or as Bill Clinton might say:
It’s arithmetic!
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