Posted on 03/03/2010 5:25:00 PM PST by blueyon
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that Republicans running in this fall's midterms will campaign on repealing the Democrats' healthcare reform bill should it pass.
McConnell held a press conference at the Capitol soon after President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to take a final "up-or-down vote" on the health bill, but did not use the word "reconciliation."
"I assure you that if somehow this bill is passed, it won't be behind our Democratic friends it will be ahead of them because every election this fall will be a referendum on this issue," McConnell said. "And there's an overwhelming likelihood that every Republican candidate will be campaigning to repeal it."
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That's what elections are for.
I might have to as well, as my liberal government here in CA as well as in DC seems completely uninterested in creating an environment friendly to growing jobs - one of which I would desperately need.
With a Republican president in 2013 it can easily be repealed. By then no benefits will have kicked in, only the higher taxes, regulations and fees. My guess is the public pressure to repeal it would be tremendous by then.
I agree again. I don’t see any other way...liberalism/socialism/communism is fundamentally at war always against freedom & free enterprise & minimal govt. We need to split the U.S. into 2 countries... a liberal one & a conservative one. I will bet that only 10% (or less) of the people would actually want to live in the liberal/socialist country. So I would say, any registered demoRAT automatically has to live in his own liberal cesspool country. And never let the bastards back into our conservative country.
It would be the biggest political miscalculation in American history.
Nevertheless, Ahab will have his whale.
This is really outstanding news and outstanding politics on the part of the Pubs! This shows the Pubs are going to stand up to Obama and play hardball politics! It gives me heart that we stand a chance of killing the Obamacare horror.
This should really put the fear of God into any House Dims thinking that somehow they might be able to vote for Obama’s corrupt government health care takeover monstrosity and somehow skate past the voters on this issue come November.
They are now officially on notice that a vote for Obamacare is guaranteed suicide come November in any district that’s not totally sewed up by one of the avowed Socialist Democrats.
They will do the same thing the class of 94 did...Bend over and spread their collective cheeks instead of "repealing" any unconstitutional bill, law, or organization!
Deathcare is here to stay! The country as a whole will grumble for a while...then adapt and go back to grazing peacefully.
placemarker
There were 2 million pissed off patriots at the 9/12 DC Tea Party march last year. That's five times the total number of accounts at this website.
And, for every Tea Party patriot who showed up in DC, there were easily ten others that couldn't get there.
Don't underestimate the size and scope of the massive citizen uprising that's occurring right in front of your eyes. You're living in historic times, my friend.
And to this day .. No One can actually say just how many were at the DC Tea Party!
You say 2 million .. I say .. Bull!
I was there and I would say .. Maybe 100 thousand.
Well, I don't know for a fact that you were there, but I remember reading the live posts from people who were on the ground that day (as well as loads of subsequent reports) that indicated that 2 million was a very reasonable estimate of the crowd size.
Well geeze!
I live less than a hundred miles from where the tea party was.
(Richmond, Virginia)
“If I WERE A LIAR”, which I am not .. I could probably have SEEN 2 million people from where I live!
I WAS there and my guess is still .. One to MAYBE Two hundred thousand!
no but they can vote to defund it and other little things to hold it up and hope for a change in 2012 to dismantle it
the tea party is small and old
i know I am one
but it can help push the GOP
Your understanding is mistaken. 20 hours, if it goes under the banner of reconciliation, measured by the running of a clock that keeps reasonable time.
It's a bullshit promise because the party calculates that it won't win enough seats to be called on to deliver a veto override. What the GOP is setting up is a "blame the voter" situation. "Gee, we tried, but you voters let us down."
I'm not saying "don't vote GOP," I'm just saying they aren't as agitated against big government as the people are.
I have no problem with that.
I just have a problem with .. Stretching the truth .. it serves no purpose other than giving .. The Other Side more bitching points!.
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