Posted on 10/24/2015 4:31:46 PM PDT by FourPeas
Yesterday morning in our article “Establishment Republicans Walking Away From Full Obamacare Repeal” we told you about the Capitol Hill Republican leadership’s plan to maintain key parts of Obamacare while it indulges in another show vote to claim it has repealed the hated health care takeover.
Ted CruzYesterday afternoon principled limited government constitutional conservative Senator Ted Cruz joined us in demanding that Republican congressional leaders keep their promise to repeal Obamacare “root and branch” by passing a simple one sentence repeal through a process known as reconciliation.
Senator Cruz tweeted, “It's not complicated: We promised the voters full repeal of #Obamacare on reconciliation. We should do exactly that.”
And of course Cruz is right.
As Michael F. Cannon and Paul Winfree noted in their recent op-ed for The Hill, “King v. Burwell helps repeal ObamaCare”:
Public opposition to ObamaCare has lasted far longer than its authors imagined. Unsubsidized consumers avoid ObamaCare coverage. Twenty states have rejected its Medicaid expansion. Congress wants to repeal it. President Obama and the Supreme Court have repeatedly amended and expanded it, transforming the statute Congress enacted into an illegitimate law that no Congress ever had the votes to pass, and making repeal not just an economic imperative but necessary to restore the Constitution’s system of checks and balances.*
And Congress appears to have the 51 votes in the Senate and the majority in the House necessary to pass full repeal on a reconciliation bill, so what’s the hold up?
Cannon and Winfree say House leaders shied away from full repeal partially out of fear that the Senate cannot deliver.
And they too are right.
To excuse their inaction Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republican Senate “leadership” are hiding behind a whole lot of double talk about complicated Senate Rules and procedures that no one in the general public fully understands – but they instinctively know double-talk when they hear it.
And as we noted yesterday, the idea that the Senate must defer to an unelected staff member (the Senate Parliamentarian) who has signaled concerns about using the procedure Ted Cruz has proposed is complete nonsense.
And as Michael F. Cannon and Paul Winfree so cogently argued in their op-ed the concerns the Senate Parliamentarian has expressed are belied by the facts of the passage and subsequent litigation that has left this unconstitutional monstrosity intact.
Ted Cruz is right, and he has proven once again that he is the one guy on Capitol Hill conservatives can trust to always keep his word because passing a full repeal of Obamacare and sending the bill to the President’s desk as Republicans promised during the 2014 midterm election isn’t complicated.
A one sentence repeal of Obamacare through the budget reconciliation bill should be an easy call for Republicans. They have the majority, they can ignore the recommendation of the Senate Parliamentarian if it goes against them, let the Senate vote on a favorable interpretation of the rules and forge forward – but that requires a credible argument and a spine, both of which are in short supply among establishment Republican “leaders” in Congress.
—and therein lies the rub.
Indeed
Unless we can overcome an Obama veto, it’s not going to happen. And therefore, it’s not going to happen.
Cruz walks the walk, unfortunately he’s but one man.
The EXEMPT GOP PROMISED to repeal ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE,
BUT instead used the IRS to attack their voters.
Spine is in short supply in the conservative base as well. Which is why we keep electing garbage that WE KNOW won’t do what they promise/campaign on.
Mitch/Jonbon/Kirk/Collins/and a while bunch of lesser evils.
As SECRET ObamaTRADE has shown, Obama need never
veto anything, because the complicit, hated, EXEMPT GOP
... has his back, and his licks up behind him.
Giving up before it’s tried is certainly the SOP for the GOP.
Absolutely. A lesser evil is still evil.
Cruz isn’t even supporting the partial repeal going on now.
The one man has been able to make enough of a storm in DC to be hated by so many. Our founding fathers were a minority and look what they were able to do. It’s a matter of others standing with Cruz. Those brave souls need to be found ASAP.
Correct. Republicans campaigned on full repeal. They need to keep their word.
If he does, he does, they then say, hey we got part of it and thats good enough.
Why are people here so afraid to actually FIGHT for what they claim they believe in? Are we Moderate Republic.com now?
The best way to repeal Obamacare is to vote Donald Trump.
He’s gonna do it. Ted is johnny-come-lately on the topic.
But will make a fine VP.
Get the GOP on record on full repeal. Make Obama veto and pass it again when he is out of office.
Starve it, like “No Child Left Behind”...
Congressional GOP couldn’t even manage this
Just permit non-government competitors to go toe to toe against Obamacare in the private sector. It would be dead meat in days.
How do non-government competitors go toe to toe against a mandate that people purchase something?
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