The little fly in the ointment, and by “fly” I mean a POS, is if Reed (Sick!) is still sliming around in the wake of the election. It’s not a given that the Senate goes ‘R’, and there needs to be contingencies for zer0Care if plan ‘B’ is required.
The ‘Rats biden’ed their time for 80 years, with some false starts, to put commieCare in place. It took a perfect storm to do so. We can’t wait for another 80 years, for when conservatives have control of all the branches of govt to repeal (and by branches, I mean all of them: Executive, Legislative, Judiciary, Regulatory, Mediatory...)
Perhaps President Romney could at least neutralize nobamacare via an EO?
Unfortunately I don’t think the GOP will get to 49, much less 50 thanks to Akin and his enablers & no way does Dirty Harry or whomever become Maj. Leader allow a repeal to hit the floor.
The Ds with help from the manipulative media are superior to the Rs at misplacing blame (See: Libya for example) and can and will win a PR war against the Rs and will make Romney, esp. look ineffective.
What the GOP really needs here is a tidal wave mandate; landslide in popular and electoral votes. Anything less and GOP needs to play prevent defense for two years, let Romney issue his exec order stalling ObamaCare, and focus on the econ. Nothing like a booming econ to get big wins in 2014 and then GOP can go to town dismantling Obama’s work.
It’s going to require a lot of discipline and patience because we want everything Obama gone now, but the Constitutional structure is what it is, and the Media is who they are. We can’t give them a bone. We must starve them.
What might be needed is some sort of good-faith "replacement" legislation...an Executive Order on Day 1, announcing no further support of the PPACA implementation. Then, offer up some small improvements in healthcare--things Republicans have supported in the past, that could get the support of a few Democrats, in exchange for their support of a full repeal of Obamacare. Offer a small carrot to get a much more productive agenda.
Romney should campaign for Senators now.
Assume the Presidency is in the bag.
Work on Coattails!
Defund 0bamaRomneyCare.
Don’t worry about trying to repeal it. Just don’t put enough money in there to enforce any single part of it.
For example, no new IRS agents to police it.
Grant all 50 states the same waivers 0bambi has granted to his union buddies.
This isn’t hard.
Really, the only thing standing in the way is that Romney is the intellectual father of 0bamaRomneyCare.
If we obtain control of the Senate - and that’s a pretty iffy if right now - it’s much easier than this.
Obamacare contains taxes. Legislation with taxes has budget implications. It can all be rolled into a budget reconciliation act - especially once we get a CBO report showing that repealing all of Obamacare, taxes and all, will reduce the deficit over some arbitrary time frame. Budget reconciliation is immune to filibusters.
Simple up or down vote.
Obamacare gets assigned its place in one of the lower circles of Hell.
The hostile takeover of the health care system was committed under a budgetary trick called reconciliation, which means it needed a simple majority and not a filibuster-proof majority to pass.
Thus, a simple majority will be needed to achieve the repeal of this odious montrosity, filibusters be damned.