Posted on 09/21/2014 2:39:55 PM PDT by buffyt
National Review columnist Mark Steyn blasted claims by Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others that the best strategy is to allow Obamacare to crumble under its own weight and only then seek to repeal it.
Filling in as host on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show Monday, Steyn, author of “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon,” explained to a caller named “Joe” that there is no reason to believe congressional Republicans have the will to repeal anything, especially considering that Carter-era institutions like the Department of Education and the Department of Energy have managed to flourish even in times of Republican-control.
“[I] mean, Mitch McConnell’s line is now, ‘Oh, just let — Obamacare is going to be so self-evidently destructive that when we win our spectacular victory in the Senate election and the next presidential election, we will be able to repeal it and roll it back.’ When do the Republicans ever do that? Those Carter-era innovations like the entirely useless federal Department of Education, the federal Energy Department, even the National Endowment of the Arts — when for decades it has been mocked for giving public monies to crucifixes floating in urine, homoerotic photography involving bullwhips attractively positioned
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These idiots are all sleeping in the same bed
The left butt cheek and the right butt cheek.
With the last election, I decided not to vote GOP just because it is not democrat. I made a decision that I would vote for the person who would be the best for this country, no matter what party that person was in, and whether or not he was going to win. And so I will continue to do for the future. I only have one vote, that in the grand scheme of things counts for virtually nothing, but that vote is precious to me and I am going to cast it for the best person, regardless of party. The constitution party and the libertarian party both ran candidates that would have been very good presidents, and I voted for one of them; if each and every American made the same decision, we would not be in this terrible place we are in.
I’m not arguing with Steyn but unless and until the GOP takes back the Senate and the WhiteHut they don’t have the power to repeal Ocare. I’m not feelin too good about the ?Senate at this point anyway.
I would like to add, this decision was made with great reluctance. But it is the right one I believe. I have been voting straight GOP probably before most of you have been alive. In my youth you had to be 21 to vote; I cast my first presidential ballot for Richard Nixon. So those of you who want to condemn me for this decision, may I suggest you wait until you are my age. The changes from when I was young are just horrible, and I know now the GOP will never effect any changes. They grow worse and worse, they are utterly unworthy of you.
Whomever EVER believed, or believe that the GOP will repeal OsamaCare is a fool. They are WIMPS. They will NEVER, EVER repeal it. They are running scared. They are coward. They are not going to do one danged thing to help this nation. They are just there hoping to keep their individual seat and keep collecting all our tax dollars in their pockets. Keeping their job safe.
I don’t believe the current Republican establishment will repeal Obamacare even if they take the House, Senate and White House.
That’s one reason why I’m not voting for anymore RINOs. Period.
What does Karl Rove think about Obama are? Ten bucks says Rove has advised the GOPe not to say a word about it.
Where are all of Reince Prebus’ minions who were all over this board this morning telling everyone to support the establishment candidates for the good of the country?
The GOP EXEMPT LOVE RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE
sooooooooooo much, you must buy it, but THEY are EXEMPT.
No, then the excuse will be that they don't have a veto-proof majority, so they STILL can't do anything. OR, what's probably even worse in my mind is that they WILL repeal it, knowing it's safe because Ebola will just veto the repeal. I hate when they pass conservative bills for show that they know have no chance, just to placate conservatives, but somehow can't muster the cojones to do stuff they actually can do and which would have an impact, like defund.
Their radical republicanism was based on a virtuous people who would send fellow virtuous men to make good laws.
It didn't work out that way. The first state governments after independence were way too democratic. Property wasn't secure and capital fled.
By the mid-1780s, most Americans realized that wild democracy had to be restrained. The solution was the Constitution. It gave people a voice in government yet did not depend entirely on them. No, our system included the states, which were removed in 1913.
My point is that the Framing generation knew that the structure of institutions, the division of powers and not reliance on the character of individual men, was the way to secure liberty.
No reason to believe GOP.
Period.
Ain't gonna happen.
Yes, he’s correct. This isn’t the GOP we once knew.
Steyn is right. The idiots in Washington believe Washington over the rest of the country.
boner and mcconnell have said so, it’d be too hard to repeal. they weren’t even going to try.
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