Posted on 11/08/2009 8:45:10 PM PST by FreeKeys
The House just passed Obamacare by a vote of 220-215.
This is a pyrrhic victory at best for Democrats. Consider:
1. Republicans will be able to use this as a campaign issue against many vulnerable Democrats from the classes of 2006 and 2008.
2. The Obamacare debate is going to drag on for months. The pressure is now on embattled Senate Democrats to pass their bill, and then reconcile that with the House, and then pass that bill in both chambers… Obamacare will dominate the debate at least into January, sapping Democrats’ energy, and giving Republicans ammunition – money and support – for 2010.
3. The narrow margin of the vote meant that there was much arm-twisting of vulnerable Democrats. Pelosi has spent whatever she has of her political capital, and she won’t have it available for Cap-and-Tax and illegal-alien amnesty.
4. If the Democrats fail at any stage of the process – a Senate vote, a House-Senate conference, House and Senate votes on the conference report – they will demoralize their supporters, whose expectations have just been built up.
What can you do about all this? Don’t get mad, get even!
Here’s a list of Republican House candidates who could use your donations. All are 1) conservative, 2) unopposed in the GOP primary, and 3) running against extremely vulnerable liberal Democrats.
Steve Pearce – NM
Robert Hurt – VA
Alan Nunnelee – MS
Cory Gardner – CO
Andy Harris – MD
Martha Roby – AL
Pat Meehan – PA
Steve Chabot – OH
Steve Stivers- OH
Tim Griffin – AR
UPDATE: More unopposed conservative Republicans, running against very vulnerable Democrats who voted for Obamacare:
Frank Guinta – NH
Tim Walberg – MI
Greg Ball – NY
As John Paul Jones stated "I have not yet begun to fight !"
Unanimous except for one Cao-ard.
Better than giving it to the RNCC, that's for damn sure...
This is excellent, succinct analysis.
VA-11 could revert to R hands with Keith Fimian.
Doctors get out your checkbooks or prepare to be an employee of ACORN. Your boss will be a unionized ACORN/SEIU thug.
Ditto for granny and grampa - if you have the money then donate or become fertilizer.
This certainly beats hanging them all — which is what they deserve.
Or Soylent Green.
My cable TV is gone for good and the savings will be used against stinking RINOs like McCain and Crist.
Thank DIABLO Newt Gingrich for ObamaDeathcare passing.
This is a workable scenario , as long as the RINOS can be kept in check.
I’d like to believe this is truly a phyrric victory, but I think it might be a victory plain and simple. Obamunism, and the Democratic party platform in general, appeal mostly to a victimized, downtrodden, unemployed populace; while freedom and the GOP platform in general appeal to a people who are gainfully employed and otherwise prefer to work for a living.
Every percent the unemployment rate goes up the dims gain another handful of people in need; just what they want. Free medical. Free money. And if you must work, work union so you are guaranteed employment based on existence, not based on performance.
So, in short, the miserable state of our economy is just the recipe for watering the seed of socialism. This is just what they probably hoped for all along.
Keep in mind that if anything under the healthcare rubric passes the senate then it all passes due to reconciliation. If the Senate were to pass a Republican bill that rationally privatized Medicare and did all the right market based things it would be “reconciled” with the House bill in a process that would exclude Republicans and would come out of that more socialist than the House bill as it is and then would would pass the Senate with a simple majority.
The phrase is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War. After the latter battle, Plutarch relates in a report by Dionysius:
"The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there to make recruits, and he found the confederates in Italy backward. On the other hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in courage for the loss they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war."
Fantastic Post, I have signed up for all these candidates. I will donate if they are as good as you say, at least I can volunteer.
Thank you. I love finding out the history behind things like that.
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