Obamacare: Senate Democrats move to punish those who try to reverse the federal workers healthcare exemption

  When the Congress found out that Federal employees would be subjected to the same healthcare exchanges they foisted on the American people the elitist ruling class politicians in Washington were horrified. People like Harry Reid and John Boehner led the charge to reverse the amendment that Charles Grassley inserted into Obamacare (an amendment they would have realized was in the bill if they had taken the time to read it) but they knew what the fallout would be if they actually held a vote to exempt themselves from Obamacare, so instead they ran to Barack Obama and asked him to do something about it behind the scenes.

  Barack Obama rode his white horse to the rescue and ordered the OPM to interpret the law in a way which would exempt Federal employees from Obamacare and the OPM obliged, basically rewriting the law without going through the constitutionally correct procedure while sparing the Congress the embarrassment of voting themselves exempt from a law they passed.

  David Vitter then drafted legislation which would reverse this exemption.

Senator Vitter says the OPM ruling has removed “the sting of Obamacare” from Congress. “Many Americans will see their health coverage dropped by employers, and they will be forced into the exchanges,” he told me last week. “If Congress is forced into them on the same terms, it will be more likely to fix Obamacare’s problems for others.”

  And that is where things get real interesting!

    Needless to say this was meant with scorn and contempt, but the methods the Democrats used to intimidate people in the Congress from voting in favor of his bill is absolutely disgusting.

  First:

several Democratic senators have asked staff to draft legislation that would deny federal health subsidies to anyone who votes for the Vitter plan, even if Vitter’s plan doesn’t become law

  If this legislation was passed it would mean that even if David Vitter’s bill did not pass anyone who voted for the bill would lose their healthcare exemption. But then they went even further by going after David Vitter on a personal level:

An even more spiteful draft bill would bar subsidies to any lawmaker or aide found by a congressional ethics committee to have “engaged in the solicitation of prostitution

  Of course we all remember that David Vitter was ensnared in the “DC Madam” scandal several years ago so the intent here was clear. These two measures will never pass and the Democrats know it, this was simply a warning to anyone who dares oppose them–do so at your own peril. This is political thuggery and intimidation at it best, or worse depending how you look at it, I suppose.

  The message is clear, don’t screw with us. This shows us the depths to which the Democrats will sink to protect their radical agenda and at this point I have to wonder if they actually have something they are able to hold over the heads of most of the Congress. We know the NSA spying scandal targeted members of the Congress and you have to wonder if they all have been compromised at this point.