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Mitch McConnell willing to kill Obamacare with just 51 votes
washingtonexaminer ^ | Oct. 30, 2014 | Philip Klein

Posted on 10/30/2014 2:44:06 PM PDT by PROCON

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says he would be willing to repeal Obamacare with a simple majority if he takes over as majority leader in January, his spokesman told the Washington Examiner on Thursday.

The announcement comes just days before Tuesday's midterm congressional election, in which Republicans have a strong chance of seizing the upper chamber from the Democrats and putting the Kentucky senator in charge.

"Leader McConnell is and has always been committed to the full repeal of Obamacare, and he'll continue to lead efforts to repeal and replace it with patient-centered reforms that enable greater choice at lower costs. He knows it won't be easy, but he also believes that if Republicans are fortunate enough to take back the majority we’ll owe it to the American people to try through votes on full repeal, the bill’s most onerous provisions, and reconciliation,” McConnell spokesman Brian McGuire wrote in an emailed statement.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; 2014election; abolishobamacare; mcconnell; obamacare; repealobamacare; senile
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That would make you a little more palatable, Mitch.
1 posted on 10/30/2014 2:44:06 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Another episode of Lucy and Charlie Brown and the Football.


2 posted on 10/30/2014 2:45:07 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: PROCON

Bury Obamacare!!!


3 posted on 10/30/2014 2:45:23 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: PROCON
Talk is cheap. I'd say "a little more palatable" IF he does it.
4 posted on 10/30/2014 2:45:54 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: PROCON

Mark Levin lit a fire under his ass last night after running two clips of him saying first he would do it with 51 then just a couple days ago it would take 60


5 posted on 10/30/2014 2:46:08 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Thad is a thud for me)
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To: PROCON

Show me.


6 posted on 10/30/2014 2:46:28 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: PROCON

Bovine Fecal material...hes in trouble at the polls he gets re-elected he will change his mind or whatever I am so thru with RINO flippers
Freegards
LEX


7 posted on 10/30/2014 2:46:32 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: PROCON

Wow, Mitch must have bought a clue. He sure didn’t have one a few days ago.


8 posted on 10/30/2014 2:46:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: PROCON

He should put his money where his mouth is, sign a public document stating if he does not, he will immediately resign upon the first nay vote.


9 posted on 10/30/2014 2:47:22 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

This Tuesday Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he won’t move to repeal Obamacare if Republicans win a majority this year.
In a Fox News interview, McConnell was asked if he’d push for “getting rid of the Affordable Care Act” as Majority Leader.
“It would take 60 votes in the Senate. Nobody thinks we’re going to have 60 Republicans,” McConnell said. “And it would take a president – presidential signature. No one thinks we’re going to get that.”
Rather than reaffirming his pledge to repeal Obamacare “root and branch” as he has vowed to do countless times on the campaign trail, Senator McConnell made excuses for why he won’t deliver on his central campaign promise.


10 posted on 10/30/2014 2:47:31 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: PROCON

I don’t believe it.


11 posted on 10/30/2014 2:47:40 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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51 votes won’t repeal Obamacare - it won’t override the guaranteed veto. What it will do is de-fund that evil law, which is almost as good. The thug in our White House could veto that budget, but then Obama would be the one shutting down the government to preserve mandatory Christian payments for abortion. I strongly approve of putting America’s most dangerous enemy in history in that position. This makes taking over the Senate even more worth while.


12 posted on 10/30/2014 2:48:08 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: PROCON

Wanna buy a bridge?


13 posted on 10/30/2014 2:48:14 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: PROCON

Can Senate majority of 51+ and House majority kill Obamacare without president’s signing such a bill?

Onamacare is a law passed on Christmas eve midnight by the democrat controlled congress of 2009 and signed by Obummer.
My understanding is to repeal a law another law needs to be passed and signed.

However congress may have a way to kill funding Obamacare.


14 posted on 10/30/2014 2:49:03 PM PDT by entropy12 (Marxist, race baiter, community organizer boy king is 10 times worse than any RINO)
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To: PROCON

He lies. Anyone that votes for him deserves what hell they bring on themselves. If they don’t know what a fraud he is by now, they are too stupid to be voting.


15 posted on 10/30/2014 2:49:26 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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To: DoughtyOne

My thoughts exactly, bingo.


16 posted on 10/30/2014 2:49:31 PM PDT by Fungi (If you do not like my post, don't read it.)
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To: PROCON

Oh, but first we have to change the rules of the senate to restore the old rules, and then the Democrats will have 24/7 coverage for their entire filibuster of this ‘evil Republican plan to attack the poor of this country to protect the rich and deprive them of much needed health care.’


17 posted on 10/30/2014 2:49:34 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: RIghtwardHo

Is there waterfront with it?


18 posted on 10/30/2014 2:50:06 PM PDT by PROCON (Ask Yourself This..Are You More Likely to be Infected or Beheaded Today Than You Were 6 Years Ago?)
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To: PROCON

When the smoke clears he’ll have 56 GOP votes.


19 posted on 10/30/2014 2:50:12 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: SoConPubbie

Yep.

McConnell already said we can’t kill Obamacare.....just some meaningless medical instrument tax cut for rich guys. The ease with which McConnell lies reminds me of Obama.


20 posted on 10/30/2014 2:50:13 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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