Posted on 06/28/2015 7:31:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Scott Walker on Saturday night said that if it were necessary to repeal President Obama's healthcare law, he would urge Republican senators to use the so-called nuclear option to end the filibuster.
After formal remarks at the Western Conservative Summit, Walker sat down with talk radio host and author Hugh Hewitt for an onstage interview.
"I heard you say Obamacare will be repealed and replaced," Hewitt said. "There are a lot of Republican senators who love the filibuster. Rick Santorum told me you don't need to break the filibuster to repeal Obamacare. But if it's necessary to do so, will you urge your Republican colleagues to invoke the Harry Reid rule that he used last year that he used to break the filibuster to repeal Obamacare root and branch?"
Walker responded: "Yes. Absolutely."
In 2013, then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid used a parliamentary maneuver to change the rules so that federal judicial nominees and executive branch appointments could be confirmed by a simple majority rather than the 60 votes required to end the filibuster.
But the filibuster was preserved for Supreme Court nominees and legislation.
Traditionally, Republicans have been reluctant to completely blow up the filibuster, fearing that when Democrats eventually regain power, they'd be able to use simple majority votes to effortlessly pass their agenda to expand the size and scope of government.
Instead of ending the filibuster, Republicans have talked about using a procedure known as reconciliation to repeal Obamacare. The reconciliation procedure is intended to be used to pass budgets with simple majorities, though it was used to pass parts of Obamacare to help secure final passage. The quirks of that procedure, however, mean that it cannot be used on provisions that have only indirect budgetary effects (such as regulatory changes). That means it's unlikely that all of Obamacare could be repealed this way.
That could leave nuking the filibuster as the only option to get a repeal bill through the Senate, unless Republicans could secure 60 seats or convince some Democrats to vote for repeal.
The other side already used the “nuclear option,” and we’re all still here.
(CNN)Scott Walker said same-sex marriage proponents should respect the religious opinions of those who disapprove of same-sex couples having the right to legally wed.
Speaking in Denver at the Western Conservatives Summit on Saturday, the Wisconsin governor spelled out his criteria for judges and weighed in on the religious liberty debate.
“To me, it is not freedom from religion, it is freedom of religion, which ultimately means we have the right to practice our religious beliefs and not have others interfere,” he said in an onstage interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
“We should respect the opinions of others in America, but that in return means that they not only respect our opinions, they respect what is written in the Constitution,” he said.....”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/28/politics/scott-walker-gay-marriage-2016-election/
Walker and Cruz leading on Obama Care repeal....the main reason they are my top two choices.
(there are other reasons of course)
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Doesn't anyone remember this bill was an attachment and not a stand alone and can be repealed with 51 votes, and all it takes is a POTUS to sign off on that Senate Vote?
That is however divorced from what Rush said Friday how Roberts fubard it and etched it in stone and it will need Congressional removal. I need to think about that one....
Unless you are going to promote what you are going to replace it with.
In this case, it would be with Health Savings Accounts and Medical Savings Accounts.
Acknowledge that RuBama will veto it but you'll sign it.
You can tell people that if they like their RuBamaDon'tCare, they can keep their RuBamaDon'tCare.
Dammit. Do I have to think of Everything?
TALK IS CHEAP!!!
Cruz definitely is. I'm not convinced on Walker yet.
It would be "if you want your Obamacare you can keep your Obamacare". Who could vote against that?
It looks like Republicans on the whole wouldn't mind abolishing Obamacare as long as their paymasters in the insurance companies don't lose out.
Better be careful praising anyone but Cruz. You’ll be harassed and stalked.
Thanks for posting...I do support Cruz but Walker is right up there. I may even give to Walker too. Your informative post is appreciated.
He has never been a Senator so how can he say he would use this option ? Your right talk is cheap.
Invoking the Reid Rule to abolish the filibuster right now would be futile because we cannot over ride Obama’s veto.
If the next president is a Republican and we hold onto the Senate then the first order of business for the new Senate should absolutely be to abolish the filibuster.
The second order of business must then be to steamroll the Democrats and undo everything that Obama and the Democrats have done since 2006.
It'd take 60 votes to end the cloture that would delay the repeal vote.
The way that the Senate Republicans were messing themselves at the possibility that the Supreme Court might vote against Obamacare leads me to believe there is no real interest in getting rid of it.
so, go ahead, denigrate the conservative and elect hilary like you elected Obama
conservatives are their own worst enemy
Because then we would just revert to the status quo ante. Which, I think, is Dutch for, back to square one. The very square that started this whole lunacy being lack of health care coverage.
With HSAs and MSAs, you actually are being proactive.
but does that matter?
shouldn’t good conservatives make the charge of the light brigade, up the valley targeted on both sides by the guns that kill? Isn’t it necessary to make the charge if you are conservative?
Isn’t the principle of the charge more important than the predetermined outcome
Speaking the Truth.
Scott Walker never was a Senator.
And don’t say I voted for Obama, I voted Republican since 1988.
Scott Walker opines on the filabuster.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Kinda.
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