Posted on 10/20/2010 8:44:39 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Here we go.
With a mere 13 days to go in this election -- an election in which all things left are on the verge of being thoroughly repudiated if every poll out there is to believed -- a shocking story appears.
A story in LaborUnionReport.com has Tennessee GOP Senator Bob Corker telling "high dollar donors" at a GOP event something prospective Republican voters will be surprised to hear:
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP colleagues have no intention whatsoever to repeal ObamaCare. None. Zip.
According to what the story says are "multiple sources," here's the skinny:
The junior senator from Tennessee told the gathering of donors not to worry about the incoming class of "crazier Republicans" because the majority of Senate Republicans, especially minority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), had no intention of repealing the president's health care bill. They instead planned to fix only the "bad parts" of the law, Corker reportedly told the group.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
We’ve got to start preparing now to pick the right candidate to run against Corker. He’s up in ‘12.
You CAN’T repeal without 60 senators and a president who’ll sign the repeal into law.
Corker is gone in ‘12. He’ll be replaced by a “crazier Republican.”
Ping
Simple solution: Vote for someone else as Majority Leader . . .
I have 2 words:
JIM DEMINT
Make that 67 senators. 2/3 in both houses to override a veto.
Little Mitchie the Kid has been a spineless weasel for decades. The story would NOT surprise me. But the TIMING is interesting. That is, if the LEFT can’t get blacks off their couches to VOTE three or four times, as usual, then republicans voters must be turned OFF!!!That is PLAN B!!!
We need sufficient votes in the Senate to beat a Presidential veto. Or, just enough in the House to form a majority that will refuse to pass appropriations without a repeal of Obamakkkare.
True, but you can attempt to repeal and thereby show your determination to stop Obamacare, and force dems and sympathetic pubs they are against repeal and put it on record, and force the prez to veto if it gets that far. It is VERY important that the new congress do this and show the people it means business! While they are attempting to repeal, they can defund. If the new congress does not do the above we will know they are willing to resign themselves, and us, to socialism and we will have to take other means to stop the madness.
agreed....if they don’t have at least 48 seats out of the election in two weeks mcconnell should be gone...he should be gone anyway, but this is just another reason...
The true minority in America, now as always, are the rational, self-reliant producers, who carry their own weight and want nothing more than to be left alone.
Tea party? I went to the first tea party. I've marvelled at the growth in national recognition the tea party has received. But I can already see its downfall.
Improper talk at this time, from a political standpoint. Sure, I get it. I'm all for getting a couple of points shaved off my tax bill. Stand and fight. Why not? But my expectations are flat-lined.
It's a political problem; It's a structural problem. Worst of all, it's a human problem.
Exactly. Any politician who doesn't have a Plan B isn't worth electing.
Exactly. Any politician who doesn't have a Plan B isn't worth electing.
I believe Corker is telling the truth. However, Repeal is impossible without a 2/3 vote for repeal in both houses to overcome Obama’s veto.
So, his point is relevant.
You’re missing the point. The long-term goal is to repeal this monster. Immediately have a vote on repeal to get each and every congress-critter and senator ON RECORD for their position. Those that vote “no” and must face the voters in 2012 will be immediately targeted for defeat in the GOP primaries and general elections.
Plus, you get the BONUS of an OBAMA veto to waive in front of the voters like a bloody shirt in 2012.
Ferret out the weasel RINOs and begin the process of eliminating them from our lives.
Bocephus
I hope and expect that most FReepers are sophisticated enough to understand that the GOP has been a significant contributor to the corruption and wrongheadedness that has consumed our governments at all levels. One election will not completely remove the rot from within the GOP no matter how well we do. We win in two weeks and then we spend the next two years taking over the GOP from the county committees on up. Then in the 2012 primaries we go RINO hunting like nobody has ever seen before!
LLS
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