Raul Labrador Castigates Media: 'We Have Never Asked For A Full Repeal Of Obamacare'

[True_Blue]

Earlier Wednesday, at a monthly meeting of conservative House Republicans and reporters in the Rayburn House Office Building, Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) took the media to task for misrepresenting what House Republicans have been trying to do, all this while, to the Affordable Care Act:

LABRADOR: You guys in the media continue to report that what conservatives were asking for was a full repeal of Obamacare -- that's absolutely false. We have never asked for a full repeal of Obamacare because we know that we can't get that. We have voted on a full repeal of Obamacare that the Senate has rejected every single time. But what we were asking for, our position from the beginning, was exchanging a one-year [continuing resolution] for a one-year delay of Obamacare. That was something that we thought both sides were giving on something. We would be giving on the fact that we wouldn't be fighting the president anymore for a year on funding the government, and the president would be giving on a one-year delay of Obamacare. So every time you write a story that says that Republicans and conservatives were unreasonable in asking for a complete repeal of Obamacare, you have actually been lying to the American people.

Obviously, over the past few years, the GOP has made several attempts to repeal Obamacare. So how does one reconcile Labrador's insistence here with objective reality? Well, first, you have to focus exclusively on just the legislative michegas that's transpired over the past few weeks, which led to the government shutdown. From there, you have to follow along with the way talking points are parsed. And then it helps if you sort of use your side-eye to look at this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/raul-labrador-obamacare-repeal_n_4109712.html

Where was this guy when the Republicans tried to repeal it 42 times?

[joeybee12]

1. This guy has ruined this for me...

http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=&sa=X&ei=dghfUvmTIISAqQHU7oDYDQ&ved=0CAkQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNFydeHfCOtq1BxJN7ojVp40xsP-bQ

Make the asshole change his name!!!!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. Well Labrador, now you know some other stuff you can't get

And yeah. You guys wanted to repeal it so shut the fuck up with your egregious and pathetic lies.

[Make7]

3. You guys just voted to defund it, not repeal it.

Do you think the outcome of defunding would be any different than repealing?

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #999999 inset;"]Friday, September 20

11 days from shutdown

The House was in session, but the Senate was not.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through December 15. The vote was 230-189, with most members voting along party lines. The legislation included language to defund the Affordable Care Act, and was sent to the Senate, where it was not expected to pass.

Speaker Boehner spoke to reporters that day, saying that "the American people don't want the government shut down and they don't want Obamacare. The house has listened to the American people. Now it's time for the United States Senate to listen to them as well."[font style="font-size:0.8462em;"]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/politics/government-shutdown-timeline/index.html[/font]
Raul, you know what the intention was - quit lying.

[Blue Idaho]

4. Fucking Liar!

That son of a bitch is my House representative and he can be trusted about as far as you can throw his fat ass. Scum like this could only be elected in a backwater state like Ideehoe. The world would be a much better place without him.

[Mass]

5. So, they never asked for it, but they voted for it. Uh? Makes a lot of sense.

We have never asked for a full repeal of Obamacare because we know that we can't get that. We have voted on a full repeal of Obamacare that the Senate has rejected every single time.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Liar liar

Pants on fire!