Commentary

Laws We Could Have Had Without a Liberal Obstructionist Senate

By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, July 13 2011

When President Barack Obama said it’s time to “eat our peas” as a nation and swallow a toxic mixture of spending cuts and tax increases, he forgot to mention another gag-inducing thought: His liberal friends running the United States Senate refuse to vote on a smorgasbord of economy-boosting bills already passed by the House of Representatives. Here’s a non-exhaustive sample: Repealing ObamaCare: Way back on January 19, the newly sworn-in House Republican majority voted unanimously to repeal the misleadingly named Affordable Care Act, otherwise known…

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