Boehner fires back at Dem senators with vow to push forward with repeal (As heard on Rush Limbaugh)

The Hill.com ^ | 01/04/11 | Michael O'Brien

[Hotlanta Mike]

Incoming House Speaker John Boehner's office (R-Ohio) pointedly vowed on Tuesday to push ahead with legislation repealing healthcare reform.

Boehner's office responded to a letter sent by the Senate's top five Democrats, vowing to block a House bill repealing healthcare reform, with a terse, 65-word note.

Boehner's office wrote:

Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Murray and Stabenow:

Thank you for reminding us – and the American people – of the backroom deal that you struck behind closed doors with ‘Big Pharma,’ resulting in bigger profits for the drug companies, and higher prescription drug costs for 33 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D, at a cost to the taxpayers of $42.6 billion.

The House is going to pass legislation to repeal that now. You’re welcome.

- Speaker-Designate John Boehner’s Press Office The note comes in response to a letter released on Monday by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) office, in which the Democrats promise to block a bill repealing benefits within the healthcare law.

Boehner's response is a sign that the incoming GOP House has little interest in backing off their promise to repeal (or at least chip away) at the healthcare bill.

It's also indicative of what could be a series of battles between the Republican-held House and the Democratic-controlled Senate over the next two years.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/135895-boehner-fires-back-at-dem-senators-with-vow-to-push-forward-with-repeal

[freekitty]

This better not be lip service.

[Kenny Bunk]

WOW! Who put the Benzadrine in Boehner's Ovaltine!

This is all we can do for the next two years is crush them in the house and defund as much as we can. The Mombasa Moonbeam has the bureaucracy, The Senate, The Media, and the office of POTUS.

We have nothing to lose and there can be no compromise from our side, because we are STILL in the governing minority. The 2012 election will have Obama proclaiming that he could have saved the nation, except for those obstructionist Republicans in the House!

Hope the GOP is tough enough .... and smart enough ... to handle this. We have to conduct a rear-guard action and knock off as many of the bastards as we can while we wait for 2012 reinforcements.

[riri]

Agreed. I hope Boehner has it in him to get it done. I was pretty incensed when he did the crying routines. Hopefully, there was some strategy involved. I do remember the number one attack they used against Gingrich was that he was heartless. I don't know that anyone can use that attack on someone whose first impression was a crying jag on TV.

And remember they only have a handful of attack modes. Republicans are either stupid, heartless or religious fanatics hell bent on ushering in a theocracy.

[DannyTN]

"I am afraid this is all they are going to concentrate on. There is so much more junk they need to rid the country of than just simply the Obamacare. I would rather they get rid of hundreds of things first and then the Obamacare which does not even get implemented until 2013. Start with DADT and go from there."

I don't think so. But this was big in the campaigns and so they are right to focus on it first. Strike while the iron is still hot. If the rats block them on this, then the American people will see it and know who the problem is.

If they wait and try to push hundreds of things first, it will distract the American people and they won't take as much notice when the rat's block Obamacare.

[Uncle Miltie]

Priority #1 Forever: Kill 0bamaCare.

[KansasGirl]

[Such as “Up yours”? ]

Oh that would do too, but I was thinking of a different 2 word response. The 3 word response our former VP Cheney said to Patrick Leahy would have worked.

[Munz]

YES!

This is what I wanted to see from the new congress.

This is what we voted for.

[Katarina]

Thank God for Speaker Boehner!!