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McConnell unveils plan to dismantle ObamaCare
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| 11-6-14
| Sarah Ferris
Posted on 11/06/2014 10:50:08 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: gogeo
To: Eva
I'm a firm believer in going after low hanging fruit first.
I think the Medical Device Tax is popular enough to override any veto.
I would have started there.
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posted on
11/06/2014 3:09:41 PM PST
by
gogeo
(If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
To: gogeo
I think that McConnell did mention that. That was one of the things that I couldn’t remember.
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posted on
11/06/2014 3:12:04 PM PST
by
Eva
To: bigdaddy45
*SIGH* Don’t you get it? This isn’t about Obama. At all. He is done in two years! In case you didn’t realize, the 2016 elections began yesterday. This is about forcing the Dems to defend a wildly unpopular law. Positioning for 2016. Get it?
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posted on
11/06/2014 3:19:42 PM PST
by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
To: Eva
He said that they were going to go back to declaring a forty hour work week as full time employment, which would mean that Employers would not be subjected to Obamacare rules for employees who worked less than forty hours. People get to keep their jobs. At least 39 hours worth.
To: combat_boots
"0bama doesnt negotiate."
Why would he when the likes of McConnell, Romney, and McCain are the "heavy hitters" for the other team?
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posted on
11/06/2014 3:32:45 PM PST
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: Eva
People get to keep their jobs. But not their liberty.
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posted on
11/06/2014 3:37:46 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
The best we can do right now is chip away at it piece by piece.Agreed. Small steps, small steps, just like the anti-gun crowd does.
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posted on
11/06/2014 4:16:01 PM PST
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
The GOP might be on to something here.
Repealing it bit by bit, forcing the President to sign or veto the repeal of each Tyrannical provision of the ACA, might be a very effective way to dismantle the law.
Knowing how the legislation was originally passed, how Tyrannical and destructive of prosperity many of the provisions are, large majorities of the People will be very angry if 0bama repeatedly refuses to repeal onerous things like the Individual Mandate, for instance.
If the GOP uses this approach, I think the President will be forced to actually sign some of the repeal provisions.
I'm going to enjoy watching 0bama squirm against the will of large majorities of the People in the next 2 years.
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posted on
11/06/2014 5:30:57 PM PST
by
sargon
To: VanDeKoik
Just sending a full repeal of a bill thousands of pages long, isn't going to nearly have the same impact when it is vetoed as sending all of the most publicly despised parts and watching him be the one keeping them in place. Exactly.
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posted on
11/06/2014 5:33:46 PM PST
by
sargon
To: Buckeye McFrog
The GOP can highlight a Crappy Feature of Obamacare Of The Week and draw the publics attention to it as they force Barry to veto the bill. Once again: exactly.
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posted on
11/06/2014 5:35:12 PM PST
by
sargon
To: sargon
Repealing it bit by bit, forcing the President to sign or veto the repeal of each Tyrannical provision of the ACA, might be a very effective way to dismantle the law. Although I am a big supporter of Ted Cruz, I agree that shinning a light on every aspect of obmaneycare and forcing the dims to defend it is a great way to show the American public just how many lips and arseholes were involved in the special sausage making the dims employed.
Make the American people see that the brown flecks they were forced to consume really is fecal matter and if the dims try to defend it, well then say hello to President Cruz in 2016.
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posted on
11/06/2014 5:41:28 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: P-Marlowe
IOW, tell Obama he can keep his unconstitutional liberty robbing masterpiece as long as he doesn't violate the constitution further by granting Amnesty to illegals.
Didn't bother to read the rest of my post, did you?
You know, the part where I said to poison pill the thing to death?
Which is a better political option than straight repeal anyways. Part of Obamacare fails. It gets removed. Then another part fails. It gets removed. A third part fails, it gets removed. So on.
All the while the Republicans are taking each and every failure/removal as an opportunity to explain to the American public why big-government "unconstitutional liberty robbing masterpiece(s)" don't work and can never work.
To: Jane Austen
Which one would you take? Just askin.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:47:33 AM PST
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: albie
Well, think if this as what we would do today if we were to fight the abortion battle from the start.
We went for all or nothing at a bad time and got NOTHING.
So if they can get a super majority to overrule Obama, then what would be wrong with taking it down piece by piece?
I doubt you can enough Democrats to repeal the whole thing at this time.
If we long ago IMO went for no abortion except for life of the mother, rape or incest the laws today would probably reflect that and not all abortion being OK.
So, I think we get piece by piece now and then with a Republican full majority with a President you repeal it and give for a couple of years a credit to all the takers that this Obamacare gave free insurance to.
I know for a fact people fake the information to get free stuff if they can and you need to peel those people off the dole and back to work.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:54:45 AM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: CatOwner
Eliminate the Obamacare line from the tax forms for 2014. Do it now!The IRS has already admitted that processing the 2014 tax forms will be difficult because of Obamacare. They should remove it from the forms plus ease up on taxes this year to give Americans a chance to regroup.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:56:42 AM PST
by
jetson
(Can I catch you a delicious bass...)
To: A CA Guy
Well, think if this as what we would do today if we were to fight the abortion battle from the start...”
...makes sense. Our experience over the last few years has been “get them into office and nothing gets done”. Your explanation is a good one. I just hope it’s what they’re actually doing.
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posted on
11/07/2014 10:43:24 AM PST
by
albie
To: Dr. Sivana
The House already passed full repeal. Bring it to a vote. Let Obama repeal it. THEN do the piecemeal thing.Bump.
I think that would be the better way, but bill after small bill forcing a veto, and forcing the rats to vote again and again isn't the worst thing. Barky's gonna veto them, make him veto a hundred bills since we can't get rid of the little tin pot ahole. Tie them around the evil party's neck.
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