After the GOP wave, Ted Cruz’s Obamacare plan

NetRightDaily.com ^ | Tom Toth

[onyx]

Thank you so much.
Good for one use!

[Slyfox]

[MUDDOG]

Mystery Election Theater 2014.

[onyx]

TYVM!
xoxoxoxo

[lurk]

The President is the only one standing in the way of repeal, so not much can be done.

They can still dump a snow flurry of bills on him on Monday of every week.

[DoodleDawg]

Cruz finished off, saying, “force the President to face those single, rifle-shot repeals and decide whether he’s going to listen to the American people or just remain an absolute partisan. And, you know, if he vetoes those bills, I think there’s a real chance we might be able to get the votes to override those vetoes.”

Unfortunately the GOP won't have the votes to override the filibuster much less override a veto.

[Sirius Lee]

The Individual Mandate is the heart and linchpin of the law. Repeal it and the whole thing dies.

Any legislation that fails to overturn the mandate can be seen as a vote FOR obamneycare.

[Pollster1]

If they are going to fund Obamacare subsidies, they should be ONLY for plans purchased through state exchanges, in accordance with the law.

[SteveH]

ted cruz should run for senate and/or house majority leader

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Unfortunately the GOP won't have the votes to override the filibuster much less override a veto.

The Democrats set the precedent that ObamaCare wasn’t subject to any filibuster when they rammed it through after Scott Brown won the seat that took away their 60th vote.

If it din’t take 60 to pass, Republicans don’t set a new precedent if they decide that it doesn’t take 60 to repeal.

[bobby.223]

I can see that! I’m still hoping Sarah decides to have a go at it but if she decides against it, I’m all in for Ted Cruz!

[ModelBreaker]

Not just the individual mandate. The employer mandate. That’s what’s going to throw millions out of their health care plan.

[DoodleDawg]

The Democrats set the precedent that ObamaCare wasn’t subject to any filibuster when they rammed it through after Scott Brown won the seat that took away their 60th vote.

Did they or did they not get 60 votes?

[uglybiker]

There's only one way to deal with Obamacare.

KILL IT!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Democrats set the precedent that ObamaCare wasn’t subject to any filibuster when they rammed it through after Scott Brown won the seat that took away their 60th vote.

Did they or did they not get 60 votes?

They did not. They “coulda woulda shoulda" done it before Ted Kennedy died, because that’s how many senators the Republicans didn’t have (some of them were “intependents” including, or only, Bernie Sanders (I,VT). But by the time they got done with the “Louisiana Purchase” bribing of Landrieu and the “Cornhusker Kickback” bribing of Ben Nelson, and were ready to vote for cloture (the vote that takes 60), Scott Brown had won the special election to replace Kennedy - and then they couldn’t get 60.

So - no problem, right? Just “deem” the ACA to be a budget bill that can’t be filibustered, and call the vote, winning by 59-41 (or whatever it was in the end, doesn’t matter morally, other than that NO Republican voted for the bill). But, as I said, the Democrats established the precedent that the ACA is not subject to cloture. They made their bed, and the 2015 Republican majority will deem that they have to lie in it.

Of course Obama will veto repeal, and the Democrats presumably will defeat an override attempt. Then the Republicans will pass “repeal and replace” by inches, and do their best to put Obama - and every Democrat who votes against override - in the wrong. Meanwhile, the clock will keep ticking toward a SCOTUS ruling that “when we ruled that the ACA was law, we meant that it means what it says, no matter who now wishes it said something else.” And towards ever-worse effects on the economy due to ACA.