Roy Blunt Cornered Over His Love of Obamacare: Blunt Contradicts Previous Statements in Support of Parts of Obamacare

I have been warning my conservative and libertarian friends for nearly two years now the Republican party won't repeal Obamacare. My prediction began when I heard a Roy Blunt puppet named Billy Long running to replace Blunt in Missouri's 7th District say there's "lots of good things about the healthcare bill" as he promised to repeal and REPLACE.




So it's interesting blogger Michelle Malkin put Roy Blunt on the hot seat in what turned out to be a heated exchange between Malkin and Blunt about whether or not Republicans are serious about repealing Obamacare. I have told you there is money and power in Obamacare--which the GOP like Democrats are addicted to, and it appears Malking has finally figured that out. We also know the GOP has promised to repeal many other big government programs and never actually do it as well.

What's even more interesting is it appears Blunt is saying different things to a lot of different people. Springfield, Missouri news reported Blunt favored keeping only one aspect of Obamacare--a mandate that turns adults into children. We see in the article Blunt likes three aspects of Obamacare now, so it appears Blunt's love of Obamacare is growing.

TPM reports of the battle between Blunt and Malkin:

In an ominous sign for tensions between conservatives and the GOP over ‘Obamacare,’ a Senate Republican leadership member sparred with a popular right-wing blogger on Twitter Thursday over whether to reinstate pieces of the health care reform law in a potential replacement plan.

It began with a blog post by Michelle Malkin fiercely criticizing the Republican members who have indicated willingness to include some popular pieces of the Affordable Care Act in a potential replacement plan if the Supreme Court scraps some or all of the law (they all insist on full repeal first).

“These big-government Republicans show appalling indifference to the dire market disruptions and culture of dependency that Obamacare schemes have wrought,” Malkin wrote.

She called out Senate GOP Conference Vice Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO):

GOP Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, vice chair of the Senate GOP Conference, told a St. Louis radio station two weeks ago that he supports keeping at least three Obamacare regulatory pillars: federally imposed coverage of “children” up to age 26 on their parents’ health insurance policies (the infamous, unfunded “slacker mandate”), federally mandated coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions (“guaranteed issue,” which turns the very concept of insurance on its head and leads to an adverse-selection death spiral) and closure of the coverage gap in the massive Bush-backed Medicare drug entitlement (the “donut hole fix” that will obliterate the program’s cost-controls).

Blunt responded to her on Twitter, which led to sparring tweets between the two.

I think Roy boy has been caught in a lie. Blunt tells Michelle Malkin he supports a full repeal; however, just a couple weeks ago the Springfield, Missouri, media reported Blunt supports keeping at least one part of Obamacare--the mandate forcing insurance companies to consider a 25 year old adult a child.

“This is generally a healthy population that’s willing to take the chance” of going without insurance, Blunt noted. A mandate forcing insurers to cover them through their parents’ policies is “a relatively inexpensive way to get a lot of the uninsured covered."

A full repeal would mean even ending this mandate Senator Blunt.

Do you see why I no longer trust and embrace the Republican party here? They tell voters what they want to hear and then do something totally different when they get to Washington.