Eric Cantor and John Boehner Don’t Really Want to Repeal Obamacare

http://www.redstate.com ^ | Wednesday, June 30th at 11:09AM EDT | Erick Erickson

[rmlew]

I met Cantor prior to the 2008 elections. I told him that Republican congressmen should run against the left. They should point out how bad things have gotten since the Democrats took over. I told him that even if we lost in 08, it would set the rhetorical and ideological stage for 2010. I may as well have been speaking Martian.
Cantor wanted individual races.
He lacks will and political foresight. He’s a Jew and a Columbia grad so it’s nice to have him in congress, but he is above his pay grade in the GOP leadership.

[itssme]

Aside from making loud noises when the obamacare bill was passed, what the hell has Boehner done or is doing, beside tending to his perpetual tan? This guy and his posse should be in the face of the media and the public with their plan of action, yet you don't hear from them or see them...take a full page ad out, boys, and in bold print state your claim and get some REAL face time on TV/video.

These men do NOT seem to have the fire in their bellies or the guts to fight bloody with the opposition...NO ONE appears to be fighting for the return of the Constitution, our liberty and our rights....they seem to back down or back off when they meet resistance...all talk, no ACTION.

When is the GOP in general going to develop some balls...why is the GOP so weak...where the hell are the patriots we need...WE THE PEOPLE have certainly shown just how patriotic and resolved we are to win in November.

Get good and angry and VOTE EACH AND EVERY PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN (EVERY RINO) OUT OF OFFICE. SUPPORT CONSERVATIVES WITH YOUR TIME AND FUNDING. FIGHT LIKE THE COMMUNISTS/SOCIALISTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE DO....FOR KEEPS.

[Cheerio]

No wonder some RATS are not at all concerned about Nov 2 2010.

Pelosi: Democrats Will 'Definitely' Retain Majority

The turn of the shrew
"We will not be taken by surprise," she said, "I am not yielding one grain of sand. My responsibility is to protect and preserve my incumbents and that’s what I intend to do... I’m fighting for every seat."

[Cheerio]

Get good and angry and VOTE EACH AND EVERY PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN (EVERY RINO) OUT OF OFFICE. SUPPORT CONSERVATIVES WITH YOUR TIME AND FUNDING. FIGHT LIKE THE COMMUNISTS/SOCIALISTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE DO....FOR KEEPS.

UNTIL SUCH TIME THIS HAPPENS, the GOP will forever be the minority party. Voters today are NOT interested in any of this "REACH ACROSS THE AILSE CRAP".

While RINOs spend time figuring out how to reach bipartisan consensus, while they figure out strategies on how to confirm RADICAL LIBERAL SUPREMES, the RATS are busy ignoring the GOP and tearing this country apart just like the CIVIL WAR did, only this time it is not geographical.

[itssme]

I totally agree with you. You’ve put it all in prospective.

We’re the boots on the ground and it will be up to US to win the day, with or without the GOP. Stay focused, stay vigilant and crush the enemy.

[Man50D]

Because the game is rigged, there is Zero chance of a viable third party, so our best chance, at least in the near future, is to purge the GOP.

We don't have a two party system. There is only the one socialist Republicrat party consisting of the OP(formerly the GOP) wing and the RAT wing. Another party will be the second party.

[ncalburt]

You would be surprised how many K street companies like GM have been trying to kill off their retiree and employee private insurance so they could unload the entire population on some big Govt plan .

[SunkenCiv]

The heat is on, looks like wrecker behavior to me. Author Erick Erickson still has LGF as one of his "blogroll" sites.

• Obama blasts GOP leader's 'ant' comment as 'out of touch' -- President Barack Obama has attacked House GOP Leader John Boehner for comparing the financial crisis to an ant.
• Obama attacks GOP over Wall Street bill -- Responding to House Minority Leader John Boehner's gripe that the financial bill amounts to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon," Obama said, "He should come here to Racine and ask people if they think the financial crisis was an ant."

[Man50D]

It is too late.

Tell that to the millions of people who have joined the tea party movement and who have already forced out incumbents either through primaries or early elections.

No one can stop it...except maybe us

Who is the "us" to whom you are referring?

[reformedliberal]

Agree, as do several other posters upstream of you.

Conservatives can and are rolled too easily by the left. Happens to conservative politicians, happens to conservative voters. There is this hair-trigger gene many have and the donks know just how to take advantage of it.

Repeal only will be used against us as the Party of No with no ideas of their own. You need to also be for something and people need to see the choice.

Strategy and tactics do go beyond “Kill them all”. We will lose if conservatives continue to pound their chests and demand 100% purity along with jumping sideways with every new release of innuendo.

[RockinRight]

The only way the sheeple will accept repeal is with a replacement bill that does things right, and in a way we conservatives can accept.

[reformedliberal]

Yes, that is correct, IMO. Also, it can probably be kept to 10 pages or less, be put online for several weeks and debated everywhere, openly and then changed in accordance with public inputs, if needed.

If we can show ideas that work without draconian central government controls and loss of liberty, I cannot see how we can fail. The recent decline in even donk earmarks due to the GOP avoiding all earmarks, is an example of leadership from our side that works.

[My Favorite Headache]

Not shocked. I don’t trust either of them.

[billhilly]

By all accounts we will win the house, so why give them any time in the spotlight? To use a football metaphor, don’t spike the ball until you cross the goal line.

[WOBBLY BOB]

The GOP backers are Charlie Brown and the RINOs are Lucy.

Cantor is backpeddling faster than Jimmy Carter running from a rabbit.

[EternalVigilance]

Cantor is backpeddling faster than Jimmy Carter running from a rabbit.

He is? Just today I read that he doesn't want to repeal all of ObamaCare, just parts of it. "Repeal and replace," or more honestly, "We can do socialism better than the Democrats."

[Maelstorm]

They are making a mistake. Even if they will ultimate keep some provisions this is not the technique one takes to achieve the goal of repeal. I really don’t understand why they don’t get it. All that blurring the line does is make it harder as well as set the stage for the dilution of opposition to that horrible bill. I’m beginning to think that some in the GOP are willing to go soft on Obamacare to help set the stage for the ascendancy of Mitt Romney.

[WOBBLY BOB]

And leaving “pre-existing conditions” in negates the whole purpose of insurance.

The entire idea of insurance is that you can assess the risk of an event in a pool of people who are paying premiums.

As soon as you say that somebody gets to wait until AFTER they have an event to join the pool, you are no longer talking about something rational.

Irrationality is the sole province of government.