To: TimF who wrote (746183 ) 10/12/2013 6:16:35 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to Anarchy comes when the few dictate to the majority. 2 - The PPACA is a minority dictating to a majority. A very small minority. Less than one in a million Americans voted for the PPACA when it passed, that's a very tiny minority, while more Americans oppose the law than support it, and its been that way consistently for awhile now. On July 17, in a private meeting between House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Boehner "pressured" Reid to agree to a short-term deal that would keep the government funded at current, sequester-level spending. According to aides who were present at the meeting, Reid was reluctant — he knew his members wouldn't be happy with a $70 billion cut from the Senate budget. But he went along with the plan because it came with a pledge from Boehner — he would not put any language into the continuing resolution that defunded the Affordable Care Act. Almost three months later, Boehner's apparent reversal on that position — inserting Obamacare language into the House's original version of the CR — and his statement Sunday that he can't pass a "clean" CR through the House led a Reid spokesman to say Monday morning that Boehner has a "credibility problem." businessinsider.com
