Posted on 11/08/2014 2:39:29 PM PST by SoConPubbie
After sweeping the electoral map on Tuesday, the Republican Party has a clear, historically powerful mandate from the American people: stop Obama and his healthcare takeover.
And there’s a clear plan to do just that.
In an election night interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz outlined exactly how a Republican majority can begin to deconstruct Obamacare to help those hurt worst by the law.
First, use reconciliation to repeal the bill. When Obama vetoes that, then proceed to remove the most onerous portions of Obamacare.
For example, codify an add-on to the law stating that people can’t lose their insurance or access to their doctors because of Obamacare regulations every plan that Americans purchased and enjoy will not be threatened by Obamacare.
Pass legislation saying you can’t be forced into a part-time job due to Obamacare limits on employee coverage.
Prohibit bailouts to insurance companies under Obamacare forcing a marketplace driven by sound business decisions, rather than unsustainable, taxpayer-funded rules and regulations.
End Obamacare’s ridiculous medical devices tax.
Cruz finished off, saying, force the President to face those single, rifle-shot repeals and decide whether he’s going to listen to the American people or just remain an absolute partisan. And, you know, if he vetoes those bills, I think there’s a real chance we might be able to get the votes to override those vetoes.
These are only a few of the common sense actions that the American people should expect a Republican majority to pass, along with the help of politically vulnerable Democrats, to force the choice on Barack Obama between the well-being of American families and the viability of his damaging namesake law. He may find that these common sense, piecemeal changes have veto-proof support.
It should be noted that one year ago, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee were being preemptively blamed for possibly costing the GOP a majority in the Senate and more seats in the House due to their efforts to use Congressional power of the purse to defund Obamacare. Of course, what happened was quite the opposite.
Given how many Republican candidates across the nation ran on an anti-Obamacare platform to a historic landslide victory, Lee and Cruz should have the respect of every conservative for laying the political groundwork for 2014’s landslide.
If Republicans are intent on stopping Obamacare and future efforts toward socialized medicine, now is the time to capitalize on Obama’s folly, pick the law apart piece-by-piece, and dare anyone running for public office in 2016 to support the law or oppose its changes.
Tom Toth is the digital content director and a contributing editor for Americans for Limited Government.
Thank you so much.
Good for one use!
Mystery Election Theater 2014.
TYVM!
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The President is the only one standing in the way of repeal, so not much can be done.
They can still dump a snow flurry of bills on him on Monday of every week.
Unfortunately the GOP won't have the votes to override the filibuster much less override a veto.
Any legislation that fails to overturn the mandate can be seen as a vote FOR obamneycare.
If they are going to fund Obamacare subsidies, they should be ONLY for plans purchased through state exchanges, in accordance with the law.
ted cruz should run for senate and/or house majority leader
The Democrats set the precedent that ObamaCare wasnt subject to any filibuster when they rammed it through after Scott Brown won the seat that took away their 60th vote.If it dint take 60 to pass, Republicans dont set a new precedent if they decide that it doesnt take 60 to repeal.
I can see that! I’m still hoping Sarah decides to have a go at it but if she decides against it, I’m all in for Ted Cruz!
Not just the individual mandate. The employer mandate. That’s what’s going to throw millions out of their health care plan.
Did they or did they not get 60 votes?
KILL IT!
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
Did they or did they not get 60 votes?The Democrats set the precedent that ObamaCare wasnt subject to any filibuster when they rammed it through after Scott Brown won the seat that took away their 60th vote.
They did not. They coulda woulda shoulda" done it before Ted Kennedy died, because thats how many senators the Republicans didnt have (some of them were intependents including, or only, Bernie Sanders (I,VT). But by the time they got done with the Louisiana Purchase bribing of Landrieu and the Cornhusker Kickback bribing of Ben Nelson, and were ready to vote for cloture (the vote that takes 60), Scott Brown had won the special election to replace Kennedy - and then they couldnt get 60.So - no problem, right? Just deem the ACA to be a budget bill that cant be filibustered, and call the vote, winning by 59-41 (or whatever it was in the end, doesnt matter morally, other than that NO Republican voted for the bill). But, as I said, the Democrats established the precedent that the ACA is not subject to cloture. They made their bed, and the 2015 Republican majority will deem that they have to lie in it.
Of course Obama will veto repeal, and the Democrats presumably will defeat an override attempt. Then the Republicans will pass repeal and replace by inches, and do their best to put Obama - and every Democrat who votes against override - in the wrong. Meanwhile, the clock will keep ticking toward a SCOTUS ruling that when we ruled that the ACA was law, we meant that it means what it says, no matter who now wishes it said something else. And towards ever-worse effects on the economy due to ACA.
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