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McConnell: Odds long on Obamacare repeal
Canadian Times/AP ^ | July 3, 2012 | AP Staff

Posted on 07/04/2012 6:30:33 AM PDT by IbJensen

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters outside the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on June 26. On Monday, McConnell said the odds were against repealing Obamacare. Photo Credit:AP/J. Scott Applewhite

It's on his to-do list, but U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the odds are against repealing the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.

The Kentucky Republican said Monday it's hard to unravel something of the magnitude of the 2,700-page health care law, WHAS-TV reports.

"If you thought it was a good idea for the federal government to go in this direction, I'd say the odds are still on your side," McConnell said. "Because it's a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: abortion; attentionteaparty; deathpanels; mcconneltherino; obamacare; republicrats; zerocare
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To: bluerose
...about a black grandfather and grandson playing ball and all the free screenings etc the grandfather can now get.

Well that just goes to show that all those opposed to ObamaTAX are racist, right ABC?

"Taking it away would be something only the KKK would do!"
--George Stepponallofus, Major Anchor and democrat Operative, ABC News

61 posted on 07/04/2012 8:50:43 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Who? Vote for WHO?)
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To: stanne

My comment wasn’t about you! I meant that McConnell (the subject of the article), Boehner, and the other establishment RINOs should start talking plain, making bold statements, and start knocking some heads in Congress — rather than the same old game of “being collegial” with treasonous Democrats. Unfortunately, only a very few (Tea Party Repubs) seem to have the guts to do this. Boehner doesn’t want to upset his good golf partner Barry......


62 posted on 07/04/2012 8:52:13 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Alas Babylon!

No, not Chamberlain, Caspar Milquetoast. Yes I should have captioned it, I would not have gotten it if I hadn’t posted it myself.

On the other hand, Chamberlain is apt description of McConnel too.


63 posted on 07/04/2012 8:53:55 AM PDT by HerrBlucher ("The cross opens its arms to the four winds; it is a signpost for free travelers." GK Chesterton)
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To: OKSooner
Preemptive cowardice.

The perfect response.

64 posted on 07/04/2012 9:02:55 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (A Choice, not an Etch-A-Sketch. TomHoefling.com)
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To: IbJensen

It’s on his ‘to-do list’ ? Oh My.

Right below, Grow some.


65 posted on 07/04/2012 9:06:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

No, I totally got what you were saying.

Was reacting to your screen name. Was just talking to family on the Jersey shore and was nostalgic. They’re in for a festive day.


66 posted on 07/04/2012 9:11:10 AM PDT by stanne
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To: IbJensen

It will definitely hard when we have a spineless, gutless RINO leading the fight!


67 posted on 07/04/2012 9:13:22 AM PDT by Freestate316
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To: IbJensen

McConnell’s attitude reflects the attitude of the caucus. You change the makeup of the caucus, you change what is pressuring McConnell in the background. This means it is essential to make sure people like Mourdock are elected in Indiana...him replacing Lugar in the caucus would make a difference...but we need more than that...we need to take the majority as well to even have a shot.

It is difficult to undo something once it is started of this magnitude. We know from experience that is spot on accurate. It is up to us to change the make-up of the Congress - especially the Senate - if we are to have any hope of undoing this, then once this victory is achieved, we must then really pour on the pressure to get it moving. That’s the reality we face.


68 posted on 07/04/2012 9:28:13 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: stanne

“I was so discouraged reading the headline as I thought McConnell was one of the sort-of good ones. The media is going full force in lie mode.”

“The headline is a fake”

I said as much when this was posted a couple days ago.


69 posted on 07/04/2012 9:49:16 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: IbJensen

What are YOU doing to make it possible? Harry Reid runs the Senate.


70 posted on 07/04/2012 10:05:05 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: IbJensen

Mitch is a no-ball, elitist, go-along-get-along appeasing, aisle crossing, chickenassed RINO bastard...


71 posted on 07/04/2012 10:09:22 AM PDT by Gaffer (NOVEMBER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: itsahoot

Abortion is losing steam and take a look at the number of states with CC laws. We’re winning.


72 posted on 07/04/2012 10:15:52 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: newzjunkey
What are YOU doing to make it possible?

When you ask this question I assume It's me to whom it's directed. I, sir, am not in the U. S. Senate; rather the Senator from Kentucky is and he has done little to prove himself worthy. As a senior citizen, I have for most of my adult life done everything possible to turn this nation back from the precipice, but it is now in the hands of God and a gaggle of incompetent political animals.

73 posted on 07/04/2012 10:24:26 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: IbJensen

Well this is a disappointing push back...........


74 posted on 07/04/2012 10:35:17 AM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: fatnotlazy
Nothing will change as long as we have the present two-party system.

IMO we have a one party system. What we have a choice of is "heart attack(D) or cancer(R)".

What we have here is a battle for POWER, and I see little difference. Lord help us all.

Happy Independence Day to you all.

FMCDH(BITS)

75 posted on 07/04/2012 11:21:14 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: cripplecreek

>> Things will never change till the whole GOP leadership structure is razed and rebuilt from the ground up without juniors and seniors.

Yes, and that will require tremendous local effort and possibly a decade or two.


76 posted on 07/04/2012 11:33:52 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: stanne

In that case, happy day to you too! Although part of me fears that this may be the last Independence Day where the sun rises and sets over a land of the free.


77 posted on 07/04/2012 11:44:51 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Gene Eric
I was going to run against my township supervisor and had a small following. Fortunately a better candidate came along and we had one of those impromptu public meetings at the post office and I gave my go ahead and he's even using my slogan of "Your property, your business"

My reason for considering running was the little emperor attitude of our current supervisor. He wrote an editorial in the newspaper whee he stated that "I'll be damned if I'll allow any filthy oil or gas rigs on private property in My township.".
78 posted on 07/04/2012 11:47:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: IbJensen

It’s a tax. I can be repealed by a simple majority in the House and 51 votes in the Senate. Because it is a tax, repeal cannot be subject to filibuster.


79 posted on 07/04/2012 12:01:58 PM PDT by magellan
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To: IbJensen

First off, Ky get rid of the RINO.


80 posted on 07/04/2012 12:24:40 PM PDT by Shady (There is no separation of powers..they want to ace the people out...)
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