Your big Obamacare story of the day is that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell won’t recommend commissioners to the Independent Payment Advisory Board — a panel designed to contain Medicare spending — as the law asks them to.

This isn’t a huge surprise given how, er, eager Republicans have been to smooth Obamacare implementation in general. But it’s more revealing, and just as ironic, as their other efforts to break or hinder the law before it takes full effect. Read More

The American Conservative Union – a pretty important group on the right and the folks who put on CPAC – just released a conservative statement in support of immigration reform after a meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). But the list is actually telling by its weakness. Or to be more specific, weak in context: it includes a lot of people you’d definitely expect to support reform and basically no one about whom I would say, “Wow, really interesting that they got her to sign on. Didn’t expect that.” Read More

‘Obamacare’ has an independent panel with some appointees from Congress. Boehner and McConnell are now saying that since they never supported the bill in the first place they’re going to try to hamstring it by refusing to appoint anyone.