It will never get to his desk because there will be no repeal bill. He’ll issue some executive order suspending the most obnoxious parts of zerocare, leaving the rest intact.
There will still be a majority of libs and squishes in the Senate, so they’ll compromise in allowing zerocare to stay. It might get trimmed back, but it will NOT be repealed in a Perry administration.
Bill by bill, he will play along to get along - as you said, pushed by the permanent political class in congress who will set the agenda - and with the most abhorrent parts gone, there will be insufficient political will to undo it.
To get rid of zerocare, Bachmann is right: it needs full repeal. To get full repeal through the senate, it will take a full-court political press.
Exhibit A - Trans Texas Corridor
In 2006, both the Texas Republican and demonrat parties added planks to their party platforms to kill TTC, Perry’s pet project. Over their objections and along with cronies in the legislature, Perry kept the project alive and moving forward. He removed some of the most objectionable parts. This is why Debra Medina ran against him from the right. It finally partially died in 2009. As of 2010, it is officially dead, yet many of the private toll-roads originally part of the plan are still being built - financed by Goldman-Sachs, built by Zachry, and exclusively operated by Cintra.
The permanent political class will not give up zero care.
If there is no repeal bill and the bill is not overturned by the Supreme Court then whoever is president is sworn to "faithfully execute the laws of the United States". IOW the president is duty bound to enforce the laws, even those laws that he finds to be obnoxious.
We do not have a dictatorship (although Obama seems to think we do). We are a constitutional republic and the powers of the president are limited and his duties to faithfully execute the laws are duties which the president swears to abide by when he takes the oath of office.
So if Perry issues some executive order countermanding the provisions of the law which he finds objectionable, then he will have violated his oath of office and he will be acting as a dictator.
We have three choices on stopping Obama care:
1) We can get congress to pass a bill overturning it. 2) We can get the Supreme Court to overturn it.
3) We can elect a putative dictator who will undermine it through executive orders in violation of his oath of office.
The permanent political class will not give up zero care.
Then we are going to have to change that. But anyone who thinks that the President of the United States should have the right to singlehandedly undo the laws of the United States instead of faithfully executing them is making the case for a very strong executive branch with dictatorial powers.
Is that what you really want?
“The permanent political class will not give up zero care.”
DING DING DING! We have a winner folks!