” However, if you wanted to be technical there was one: Olympia Snowe.
She provided the one minority vote that was needed to get the bill out of committee and onto the floor — where she voted against it. “
If the Republican Party had any BALLS, they would have fought tooth & nail every day in the media to scare off average Americans, and more than a few politicians. They should have exposed all the lies, and graft. Someone like Snowe might have backed off too, out of fear.
How, precisely, are you supposed to do that if the MSM won't give you the time of day?
I recall a number of press events staged by the Republicans for exactly the purpose you describe which either a.) weren't reported or b.) weren't even attended.
The Republicans had only one reliable outlet for their complaints -- talk radio -- and they used it.
At the time, I also recall Boehner and McConnell getting a lot of credit here on FR for keeping all of the Republicans on the reservation.
Am I disappointed in the GOPs performance since 1994? Onn balance, damn right. But I don't see anything more that they could've done to stop passage of Obamacare -- save Olympia Snowe keeping her legs crossed, of course.
My point was that the republican leadership ordered members to not object to the bill not being read in to the record, thereby the public did not know what was in the bill.
The leadership could have stopped her from letting it out of committee.
The point is this, the republican leadership is NOT on our side, they want our money and votes and that’s it. They are all part of the New World Order.
“...If the Republican Party had any BALLS, they would have fought tooth & nail ...”
Nail = head = hit
Crux of the problem. Lack of testicular fortitude - OR - outright FEAR of the democommie smear machine - OR - they have dirt on them that the dems will expose.
Either way, we need to get folks in there who are NOT afraid of the Dems.
Hence, LtC West, Gov Walker, and folks like them.