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By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN | 6/13/13 5:13 AM EDT

Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.

The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.

This is good news to me, and poetic justice. These hacks were willing to sell the rest of us down river when push came to shove and they had a chance to reject the worst bill ever signed into law (next to the Patriot Act), because they thought the bill wouldn't touch them personally. Hyuk Hyuk. Under Nancy "my name is Arrogance" Pelosi's principle of "we'll have to pass it to find out what's in it"........now they are finding out. And it seems that they screwed themselves and don't like it. If they leave government service, then they have the option to buy private insurance from the inflated salaries they'll earn when they flee back to MSNBC or the fancy law firm they used to work for.

The more of these parasites leave government employment, the happier it makes me.

Not all of the folks looking to leave gov't service are hacks or had a thing to do with passage of the ACA. Some are newly elected conservative reps and their staffs that will be one and done. Others are long serving reps who fought the ACA tooth and nail and will likely not run again.

A couple of quotes from the story amuse me...

If the issue isn’t resolved, and massive numbers of lawmakers and aides bolt, many on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain just as Congress tackles a slew of weighty issues — like fights over the Tax Code and immigration reform.

Given the votes that some of the people in Washington make, perhaps a brain drain is what is needed....

Rep. John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat in leadership when the law passed, said he thinks the problem will be resolved.
“If not, I think we should begin an immediate amicus brief to say, ‘Listen this is simply not fair to these employees,’” Larson told POLITICO. “They are federal employees.”

So, because they are federal employees, they are better than everyone else and should be exempted? What elitist nonsense. Even if some weren't in office when this monstrosity was passed, they need to feel the pain, just like the rest of us. I am tired of those in power passing laws and then promptly exempting themselves from said laws....

gthaustex wrote:So, because they are federal employees, they are better than everyone else and should be exempted?

That goes without saying. Don't you read the papers?

Dadtodabone wrote:Not all of the folks looking to leave gov't service are hacks or had a thing to do with passage of the ACA. Some are newly elected conservative reps and their staffs that will be one and done. Others are long serving reps who fought the ACA tooth and nail and will likely not run again.

I actually thought of this when I posted my comments, and it's true....not all of them are hacks. But many are hacks—including some who call themselves "conservative"—and I can't help but feel a bit of schadenfreude over it. And if you're newly elected and conservative, and you're one and done, then honestly, then you should have checked your motivations before you ran. Obamacare became law of the land before this freshman class of representatives even ran for office. They didn't run in a vacuum. Did they run on conservative principles, or did they run for that sweet healthcare policy they thought they were going to get as members of the governing elite?

I know that this sounds harsh, but EVERYBODY in this government is due for a drenching with ice-water and needs a large mug of strong black coffee, including some people who self-identify as "conservative" (which is meaningless anymore anyways, since people like John McCain call themselves "conservative").

Besides, I left the republican party after the last election, and I refuse to pay any upfront loyalty to any party anymore without that party having a recent track record of the proper values. I'm not supporting any more sellouts. On anything. Ever. I am today a small "L" libertarian, and the republican party is in my rear view mirror.

I am permanently disillusioned by so-called conservatives from whom I expected better. So yeah, no pity for the "one and done" types. The AHCA was law before they ran.....and they ran anyway. I'm not a warmonger, but that's kind of like people who join the military in peacetime, and the minute the nation calls on them to go to war, all of a sudden they're all "I didn't join for this!" and they wan't to quit or go AWOL.

gthaustex wrote:A couple of quotes from the story amuse me...

If the issue isn’t resolved, and massive numbers of lawmakers and aides bolt, many on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain just as Congress tackles a slew of weighty issues — like fights over the Tax Code and immigration reform.

Given the votes that some of the people in Washington make, perhaps a brain drain is what is needed....

How on earth do you drain an empty pot?

baldeagle wrote:

gthaustex wrote:A couple of quotes from the story amuse me...

If the issue isn’t resolved, and massive numbers of lawmakers and aides bolt, many on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain just as Congress tackles a slew of weighty issues — like fights over the Tax Code and immigration reform.

Given the votes that some of the people in Washington make, perhaps a brain drain is what is needed....

How on earth do you drain an empty pot?

gthaustex wrote:A couple of quotes from the story amuse me...

If the issue isn’t resolved, and massive numbers of lawmakers and aides bolt, many on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain just as Congress tackles a slew of weighty issues — like fights over the Tax Code and immigration reform.

Given the votes that some of the people in Washington make, perhaps a brain drain is what is needed....

So the collective IQ will go from 40 to < 20.

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IQ Range Classification
70-80 Borderline deficiency
50-69 Moron
20-49 Imbecile
below 20 Idiot

The Annoyed Man wrote:Obamacare? We were just leaving …
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By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN | 6/13/13 5:13 AM EDT

Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.

The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.

This is good news to me, and poetic justice. These hacks were willing to sell the rest of us down river when push came to shove and they had a chance to reject the worst bill ever signed into law (next to the Patriot Act), because they thought the bill wouldn't touch them personally. Hyuk Hyuk. Under Nancy "my name is Arrogance" Pelosi's principle of "we'll have to pass it to find out what's in it"........now they are finding out. And it seems that they screwed themselves and don't like it. If they leave government service, then they have the option to buy private insurance from the inflated salaries they'll earn when they flee back to MSNBC or the fancy law firm they used to work for.

The more of these parasites leave government employment, the happier it makes me.

That's sort of insulting to parasites, who, after all, lacking the intelligence to have morals, can be excused for just taking their place in the natural order. Those you're talking about are more disgusting than, say a leech, because they have a choice in what they do and how they behave, the leech doesn't.