Posted on 04/05/2014 3:16:49 PM PDT by markomalley
The Tea Party candidate who is challenging Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) promised to "kill" ObamaCare, if he gets elected in November.
"We are not going to stand with an eye toward trying to place a Band-Aid on ObamaCare," Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel said at FreePAC Kentucky, a conservative gathering in Louisville on Saturday. "We're not going to fix it. We're going to kill it."
The event featured a number of other Tea Party speakers, including two who are running against fellow Republicans in the November elections. Many in the Tea Party are upset that mainstream Republicans aren't doing more to fight the Obama administration.
McDaniel hopes to unseat six-term Cochran, who has been in office since 1978. While Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin, who was also speaking at the event, is vying to defeat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a five-term senator.
"They say this race I'm in right now is a test of the old guard," McDaniel said in a deep Irish accent. "I'm not sure what that means. I know my opponent has been there 42 years, been there as long as I've been alive. Richard Nixon was president when he arrived."
Cochran has actually been in office for 36 years, but he did run Richard Nixon's campaign in Mississippi in 1968.
McDaniel promised to fight ObamaCare, but said he was disappointed that many Republicans have given up in the battle.
"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) have given us an outstanding example of what courage can do, of what real leadership can do," he said. "They stood there doing their best to defund ObamaCare. That was a fight they should have fought, it was a fight we should have won. But the same old (Republicans) told us that was not a winnable solution."
McDaniel said the GOP should learn to stand up for itself and shouldn't be afraid to go against the Obama administration.
"It's the same thing everywhere we go, isn't it?" McDaniel asked. "'Republicans have to learn to compromise. We have to learn to reach across the aisle.' I don't remember the Democrats reaching across the aisle, when they basically took ObamaCare and rammed it down our throats."
McDaniel also talked about lowering the national debt. "I've got 17.3 trillion reasons to never compromise on the debt again," he said.
Grandfathering in Obamacare-compliant policies will probably be needed. There is no simple way to clean up the barf.
You should post a thread.
How do you want to fix Obamacare?
I trust free markets over Lawyers and regulators.
Competition is the key to both price and quality.
How about regulating Lawyers.
How about state government programs competing against each other.
How about sending illegal immigrants back when whenever we find them.
For example when they show up for free care at a hospital!
Cure them and send them packing.
Oh, is it a child that was born here? So what, let them immigrate back leagally when they turn 18, get a job and pay for health care.
Not as broken as ObamaCare. Tort reform, allowing shopping around in other States, and other Republican ideas over the years would go a long way in fixing what we had. The new deal is un-fixable.
What kind of squish writes this cr*p?
Notice the handwringing "running against fellow Republicans" --- OMG!!! How can that happen?
Then with have this line about "mainstream Republicans". Who says they're "mainstream"? Do they have majority support of Republican voters? Do they advance the views of the majority of Republican voters? Squishy e-GOP'ers have no support. They must lie to get votes, ie McCain 'okay, I'll build that d*mn fence', then get to DC and do the opposite.
I support jobs in America.
And I support something as a fall-back plan, for Americans who lose their coverage.
You Realize that it is Deathcare that is causing people to loose their coverage.
You talk about people having "guaranteed" federal pensions, well I hate to break this too you but the Federal Government is the brokest entity on earth.
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