In a May 31 opinion column “4 words threaten reforms,” by Froma Harrop, she asserts that it will be the Republicans who will ultimately be blamed if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and all but strikes it down. Although she acknowledges that the law was inexcusable as “sloppy,” “careless,” “inadvertent,” “a drafting error,” she fails to name those most responsible for this train wreck should the high court act as she fears it now might.
Obamacare was passed by a U.S. Congress under the complete control of Democratic Party majorities in both the Senate and the House. In 2010, two weeks before the president signed it into law, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., then-Speaker of the House, stated, “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”
Evidently, Harrop has forgotten about that part of the story.
Michael B. Lumbard
Washougal
