Congressman says he's suing the administration over Obamacare

Yesterday a Republican congressman from Wisconsin wrote an article in the WSJ about why he's suing the Obama administration to make congress live by the letter of the health-care law it imposed on the rest of America.

One of the provisions used to win votes in congress for the razor-thin passage of Obamacare was that the law would also apply to members of congress and their staff.  The congressman claims this provision was specifically debated in the House, as members were aware that if they rammed through yet another law that they exempted themselves from, voters would be furious. 

The cover story was that Obamacare was going to be so good that congress would eagerly participate in it, just as they were forcing everyone else to do.

But certain legislators and staffers never had any intention of playing by the same rules as us peasants, and began lobbying their friends in the White House to craft a sly workaround.  And sure enough, after the bill was safely passed the Obama administration arranged for members of Congress and their staffs to receive an extra "employer contribution" that would let them get top-quality benefits at little personal cost.  Yet supposedly congress had intentionally ruled this out to help get the votes to pass the controversial law.

The guy claims that having the federal government make an employer contribution to help pay for insurance coverage was explicitly considered, debated and rejected in the House.  This was a major confidence-building move offered by Democrats to reassure skeptics that ObamaCare would live up to its billing.  Democrats wanted to appear willing to subject themselves to the same laws, rules and regulations as their constituents.

After the bill was safely passed they sought a special exemption from Obama.  Last October the president supplied it, through a bizarre ruling from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).  The pretext used by OPM is astonishing:  they essentially declared the federal government a small employer—thus qualifying members of Congress for coverage through a program that allows small businesses to buy insurance for their employees.

Interestingly, Republicans tried to block this special treatment, passing a bill in the House on Sept. 29.  

Of course you can guess what happened: The bill was blocked in the senate.  Amendments have also been offered to senate bills that would do the same thing, but Democrat majority leader Harry Reid has--surprise!-- refused to allow a vote on any of those amendments.

All right, students, time to warm up your predictive skills.  What do you think will happen to this lawsuit?

• The court where he files it will throw it out due to "lack of standing" to sue;
• The court will allow it to be filed, the government will appeal, and the case will finally reach the Supreme Court in October of 2016, after which the outcome won't make any difference;
• The congressman will have a mysterious accident involving a bus;
• The congressman will suddenly withdraw the lawsuit on some weak pretext; or
• The lawsuit will go to trial, and a jury composed of 12 Democrats--all quite impartial of course--will find in favor of the administration; or
• The suit is tried and the congressman wins, but the Obama administration ignores the ruling that it must comply with the actual law.

You'll notice I didn't include a choice in which the congressman actually wins and the administration complies with the court order.   That's because I'm over the age of 8 and have watched Obama and the Dems at work for far too long to believe they'd ever obey a law or court order they didn't want to.