Posted on 11/22/2013 7:25:32 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
After three long years of cautious resistance to comprehensive replacement of ObamaCare, the House Republican leadership seems ready to approve of legislative hearings and eventual House action on major proposals to that effect -- namely, to proactively support the Republican Study Committee's HR 3121 (with well over 100 co-sponsors) and Rep./Dr. Tom Price's overlapping HR 2300 (with over 40 co-sponsors).
These two proposals -- like Rep. Price's HR 3400 in 2011 and HR 3000 in 2012 -- can all be traced back to the March 2010 House debates and razor-thin 219-212 House passage of ObamaCare. It was then that GOP leaders (then in the minority) proposed a comprehensive "Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute" -- which would almost surely have passed and would have "partial-birth aborted" ObamaCare, but which was quickly "tabled" on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's party-line procedural vote instead.
Since then, the GOP leadership, believing that a) free-standing repeal without replacement or b) repeal via defunding or c) the Supreme Court might solve the problem, and fearing also that deeply divided Republicans would fall into self-destructive warfare over what total replacement should involve, opted to avoid such intra-party conflict.
But now that hoped-for rescue by the Supreme Court, by bare-bones repeal, and by bare-bones defunding have all failed, the House GOP is finally -- some say very belatedly -- returning to the "regular order" legislative process of crafting what will be called "De Facto Repeal via Comprehensive Replacement."
An Early Appeal in the American Thinker
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Comprehensive replacement is rebranding what I call nothing more than amending the current law. It needs be pulled out by the roots to quote what I think Backman or Palin said years ago. So now Bonehead gets to play Nero again, more hearings, more bluster as we move haltingly to the mid terms. When you have the wind to your back, you hit long drives, don’t wait for it to be in your face.
Not that defunding Obamacare was immediately possible, but give a disgusted public a ray of hope to focus upon, and make the democrat party and president own their POS health insurance law every day until Nov 2014.
Perhaps the poltroons in the GOPe understand that now.
Republicans are stepping into political quicksand. Obamacare is a tar-baby; the Stupid Party will implicate itself in this disaster by trying to fix it.
Right now the Dems own it, entirely. Let them sink in their own quicksand.
Yup.
End it, don’t mend it.
Exactly. The most objectionable part of Obamacare is that the federal government is sticking it's fat foot into a major part of the American economy. They have no business or authority to insert themselves into health insurance.
Free market insurance is not perfect and state government should have oversight, but central planning by a snake pit of regulatory federal agencies is guaranteed to be an expensive mess.
I think you’re forgetting that the GOPe WANTS this travesty. We can never count on them to do the right thing unless they are in the clear minority among Republicans. We all know we need conservative, not necessarily Republicans. I actually think if the Republican governors of the states don’t do what Mark Levin recommends (constitutional convention) and do it soon, we have no hope. The democrats have a full year before the Nov. election. That’s a lot of time for the news media to spin all that’s happened with Obamacare - and remember, the “One” just called them all in for a little chat. As soon as the 47% starts getting their “free” health insurance and as soon as amnesty takes place - and we have lots more than 47% with hands out for the “free stuff” it will be all over and the left knows this. We have lost the Republic. They will be coming for your $ and your property next. Watch for single family dwellings to be demonized soon.
It's already starting.
A better idea would be for the GOP to announce, today, that if they win the senate in 2014 they will expand the no-filibuster rule to cover just one more topic: Obamacare.
Then the Republicans can pass a raft of bills, on everything from full repeal to “The Make Obama Keep His Promise Act” to “The Religious Liberty Act of 2015” and send them to Obama to veto, then get Democrats on record as supporting the veto.
bttt
“a snake pit of regulatory federal agencies is guaranteed to be an expensive mess”
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Beautifully stated. You have a way with words! :)
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